Mythology and Music/Literature

Mythology and Music/Literature
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Mythology and Music/Literature
Myths, folklores, and allegories are compelling teaching aids used especially for young person’s undergoing the rite of passage from childhood to adulthood. A common aspect about most myths and fairy tales is the description of the expedition of self-discovery and the mechanisms and nature of the world. Baba Yaga is an ancient Russian myth about a grotesque looking witch who wanders about the woods in a forest flying in a mortar while wielding a pestle. Her domicile is in a hut that is depicted as pedestalled with a pair of chicken legs. Baba Yaga is notoriously fond of eating children. Her home is skirted with skulls as a fence, she is portrayed as fierce, and one who is supposed to make people fret (Johns, 2004). The myth presents several themes including malevolence and villainess, morality and immorality, wisdom and immortality and fate.
Apart from her repulsive looks and her peculiar lifestyle, the theme of malevolence is depicted by Baba Yaga regression. Worth noting, the theme is accompanied with strong winds, creaking and squeaking of trees with the whirling of fallen leaves in the background of a distant groan. Her hut tends to move about with its rear side always facing the incoming visitor with its windows serving as sinister eyes. For the visitor to enter its door, he or she has to utter an incantation after which the hut turned in blood-curdling shriek for the door to face the visitor. The door would later flung itself open with a thunderous blast in a manner to make the visitor flinch. The door warns the visitor that he or she should enter at his or her own will.
Baba Yaga is capable of bringing in fortunes or misfortunes to people, and she was blamed for most of the wildfires that razed the Russian forests in the Slavic era. This elucidates the fact that the myth originated from the ancient inhabitants of the Eastern Europe forests of northern R...