Mokosh

Mokosh ( ) is a Slavic goddess. No narratives about this deity have survived: Mokosh was mentioned in various sermons (called Words and Teachings) against Paganism along with the vilas, but is not described by them, and all modern desriptions are reconstructions.

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Deity.type: Slavic
Deity.name: Mokosh
Deity.member_of: Vladimir's pantheon
Deity.script_name: Old Cyrillic
Deity.gender: Female
Deity.image: Двадцать пятый лист Лаврентьевской летописи (Мокошь).jpg
Deity.texts: Primary Chronicle and other dependent texts
Deity.caption: The twenty-fifth page of Laurentian Codex, with mention of the pantheon of Kyiv, 1377. Mokosh's name is marked in red.

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Image: Двадцать пятый лист Лаврентьевской летописи.jpg

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Name and characteristics
Obsolete and questionable etymologies
Onomastics
Sources
Old East Slavic sources
Sources from the 16th-17th centuries
Attempts at reconstruction
Early studies
Mokosh and Mokosha, Mokusha
Łuczyński's reconstruction
Comparison with Paraskeva Friday
The theory of basic myth
Rybakov's reconstruction
Family
Neopaganism
Today
See also
References
Bibliography

In academia, the opinion has spread that the cult of Mokosh has passed to the folk-Christian Paraskeva Friday, the personification of Friday associated with water and spinning. Because of this identification, Friday began to be considered a day dedicated to the goddess, and a conclusion about the popularity of Mokosh among women in Christian times was drawn. In later studies, the idea of an identification with Paraskeva was criticized because Paraskeva's association with spinning, water, and Friday has Christian rather than pagan roots.