Just some notes on what I found...
I watched a video from Turkey about how they make those blue-eye beads used as good luck charms. It was interesting how the glass worker's furnace resembled a dragon. I swear that I am not raving mad. Maybe I'm a little crazy, and maybe I see connections that are not really there. I've been really curious about good luck charms - they fit into this story about apotropaic magic.
https://youtu.be/DR3fpBqnDG8 link to Nazar Koy, Village of the bead makers
I don't remember where I read some folklore that connected blacksmiths with the underworld... Is that right? I wonder if the furnace had some kind of folklore...?
I found the right page in Russian Wikipedia for Berehynia. Actually it is spelled, "Berginya" in English (there seems to be several ways to spell this.) So, Berginya, as I understand it, is the goddess of barley. But this Russian page associates her with Venus, and does not seem to say anything about being a goddess of grain. I know that I'm on the right page because it mentions Dodola / Paparuda.
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Берегиня link to Berginya in Russian Wikipedia
I really need help with translating this page. I tried Google Chrome but I could barely make out what it said. There's a bit near the end of the article that I want to understand. It says something about a ritual involving a beet. Now, I recall a fairy tale about a giant beet that they couldn't pull out of the ground. Hm, next I will reread that tale.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gigantic_Turnip link to the tale of the Gigantic Turnip on Wikipedia
I watched a video from Turkey about how they make those blue-eye beads used as good luck charms. It was interesting how the glass worker's furnace resembled a dragon. I swear that I am not raving mad. Maybe I'm a little crazy, and maybe I see connections that are not really there. I've been really curious about good luck charms - they fit into this story about apotropaic magic.
https://youtu.be/DR3fpBqnDG8 link to Nazar Koy, Village of the bead makers
I don't remember where I read some folklore that connected blacksmiths with the underworld... Is that right? I wonder if the furnace had some kind of folklore...?
I found the right page in Russian Wikipedia for Berehynia. Actually it is spelled, "Berginya" in English (there seems to be several ways to spell this.) So, Berginya, as I understand it, is the goddess of barley. But this Russian page associates her with Venus, and does not seem to say anything about being a goddess of grain. I know that I'm on the right page because it mentions Dodola / Paparuda.
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Берегиня link to Berginya in Russian Wikipedia
I really need help with translating this page. I tried Google Chrome but I could barely make out what it said. There's a bit near the end of the article that I want to understand. It says something about a ritual involving a beet. Now, I recall a fairy tale about a giant beet that they couldn't pull out of the ground. Hm, next I will reread that tale.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gigantic_Turnip link to the tale of the Gigantic Turnip on Wikipedia
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