Slavic goddess

The woman represents a Slavic goddess of winter and is associated with death.

Not knowing her true name, they call her Vesna, after the Slavic goddess of Spring.

Her relationship to Mara (goddess), the Slavic goddess of death, is unclear; some sources equate the two.

Before the church was built, there was a temple consecrated to Živa, the Slavic goddess of love and fertility.

Morena an alternative form of Marzanna, a Slavic goddess of harvest and witchcraft.

Folk etymology occasionally links Ladislav with the fictional Slavic goddess Lada.

A legend says that Lel', son of the Slavic goddess of love Lada was a svirel player.

Živa, also Żiwia, Siva, Sieba or Razivia, was the Slavic goddess of love and fertility.

Vesna is a popular South Slavic female name derived from the name of Vesna, an ancient Slavic goddess of spring.

Her role is the same as the Slavic Goddess Dolya, bringing luck to those Makosh smiles upon, except that she was also responsible for protecting the flocks and fields of farmers.

The occurrence of the celebration across the western Slav countries (plus Hungary, whose inhabitants' forebears conquered a formerly Slav-inhabited region) suggests a common origin in pagan mythology, most likely a link with the Slavic goddesses of fertility.

Marzanna (in Polish) or Morena (in Czech, Slovak, Russian) or also Mara, Maržena, Morana, Moréna, Mora or Marmora is a Slavic goddess associated with seasonal agrarian rites based on the idea of death and rebirth of nature.