From time immemorial, Poems, paintings, music and everything in which One could display Their Images were dedicated to Women. Images without which Spirituality and Life itself do not exist. In the Slavic Tradition, these Images are carried by Women in labor from the sacred retinue of the Family! The images of the guardians of the Family. Sacred images - to every Rodnover!
A woman, if viewed from the perspective of Christianity, is a true Pagan Symbol. Fertile Power. The essence of the continuation of the Rod. It is not for nothing that we are conscious of the Feminine Images in terms of the Land of Mother and Mother Nature! This Femininity just as inextricably connects us with the concept of Motherland, which is especially vividly echoed in the Spiritual Essence of Rodnoverie. And the humiliating attitude to the image of a woman hidden under headscarves and veils - in monotheistic views, from the position of Rodnoverie is considered as an insult to the Natural Dignity of Women. After all, even a monotheist, contrary to the views imposed on him, becomes the fruit of a Woman and, being born into the world, thereby embodies the polytheistic model of the Universe. Therefore, at the present stage in Rodnoverie there is a very tangible need to return to the Woman the Status that belongs to Her by right - the Guardian of the Family.
We all know the custom of giving flowers to a Woman, kept in our Traditions from time immemorial, carrying in itself the everyday ritual of sacrifice to a Woman. Giving the vital energy of flowers, Men thereby express their respect to the Beloved Woman, in whom they found the Image of the Goddess of Love - Lada. This Divine Image is as multifaceted as the Woman herself, who grants a Man both vivid memories, and lofty feelings, and sleepless nights, and sometimes even takes life …
Lada is the essence of any Woman. She gets along with the connection between relatives and close people, and there is no woman in the whole world in which this connection would not be embodied. And this connection is primordial and continues not only throughout life, but also after death, since Love does not die with Man, but remains with us - for centuries.
In Rodnoverie, Life brings the Woman in labor - Alive, and Lada transfers the Soul of the deceased to the Family and Close ones - directly in this connection. This contradicts the Christian alternative - Paradise or Hell, but in Rodnoverie, both at birth and after death, the path is the same - along the path of his Family, his Kind.
Yes, today, it is already very ridiculous to believe that after death some fabulous changes will come, but now we are talking only about the connection between Native People, who are forever tied by the bonds of Love and Kinship, whose embodiment in Rodnoverie is the Woman.
Women in childbirth, in Rodnoverie, are given special importance and for many it is no secret that during childbirth a Woman practically approaches the borderline between life and death, when during the birth of a child various kinds of conduct arise. This phenomenon is explained by the penetration of the Woman in labor into the other world, where She finds the Soul for her Child, who is ready in the next moment to take her first breath, that is, to find the Spirit. Here, again, we cannot avoid mentioning the Christian obligation - “baptism”, supposedly becoming under the protection of God, which again contradicts what is happening at birth. In Rodnoverie, the Woman in Childbirth herself, giving birth, gives her Child the Spirituality and Patronage of her Family.
In the Images of Women in labor from Rodnoverie, we can recognize literally all the characteristic features of Women. So, along with the above-mentioned Goddesses - Lada and Living, we receive Images of a wondrous - Diva, welcoming - Rada, giving - Dana, illuminating - Dawn, due - Dole, punishing - Karna, as well as smothering - Mary and many other manifestations. All this, to one degree or another, is reflected in the character of any Woman. This is another characteristic feature of Rodnoverie - where the cherishing Woman takes on the Image of the Goddess Lelya. She is the daughter of Lada, and the Religious Women's Day is named in Her honor! Lelya grants the World - Affection and Tenderness, with which we are familiar from childhood and go throughout our Life. All this is Divine and peculiar to the entire Universe, for these are Natural Phenomena that are infused into our World thanks to Women.
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By bestowing her Feelings, a Woman endows our World with Beauty, Love, Tenderness and everything - what Nature has endowed Her with! The family gave Women a special sensuality, so that Their insight and deep Spirituality could comprehend - that "only a Strong Person can create Good", for only a Good Person is able to expose and destroy evil! And how much is hidden in the everyday stories of our Ancestors - which we hear about Women who took up arms and entered the battlefield together with Men. Or stories - when Women followed the army in order to support Men - with the Spirit and save them from the thought of retreat, as one can imagine the shame of a Man who could not protect a Woman. We must also remember the Image of the "Wife with a mallet" - inherent only in the Slavic Woman. And all this resonates in the Image of a Woman in Rodnoverie,where She is able to discover not only the most intimate feelings, but even smells that are elusive for Men, but significant for Women. Even magical abilities are transmitted through the Feminine line, and Men can only comprehend them.
Everything that is unknown to us and everything that is already known is born thanks to the connection of the Woman in labor with the Genus, that is, Women in Rodnoverie, for this is Life!
Best wishes to the Slavs!