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A goddess, asociated with female natural "jobs"(as giving a birht); goddess of fertility, protector of women; also known as Mati-Sira-Zemlya or Majka Zemlja meaning Mother Earth. She wanders as masked woman and wisit houses doing domestic duties. At night a piece of hair was left as an offer to Mokoš. At the beginning she vas a domestic spirit. She is black as fertile earth. Wife of Svarog(according to some OldSlav legends); she talked him into creating a life on earth that would look as him, so he breathe a life into an oak tree from which first man, named Dubravko, came to life; she revived another one, a woman, Ljubljenica. Her statues in tempels are in sitting position(as Svarog's are).