Ajysyt, or the Birch Goddess, The Tree of Life Painting

This week I read about Ajysyt, "literally 'birthgiver'. The mother goddess of the Yakuts, a Turkic people living near the Lena River in Siberia." She is part of a myth involving a "white youth who encountered a calm 'lake of milk' near the cosmic tree. Having besought the blessing of the tree, the white youth felt a warm breeze, heard the tree creak, and observed a female divinity arise from the roots. She proferred him milk from her full breasts, and having satisfied his thirst, he felt how his strength had increased a hundredfold. The milk breasted mother goddess and the tree of life are thus combined." I wanted to know what kind of tree this was. After research, the birch seemed most likely. Sacred to Freya, Frigg, Nerthus, Holda, Eostre, Brigid, Kupala, and other Goddesses of the North, the birch is a pioneer species and would have been one of the first to recolonize as the glaciers of the ice age receded. acrylic on canvas panel

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11 W x 14 H x 0.2 D in

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