This post revolves around a new monster based mainly on Siberian pregnancy/birth folklore. The creature is used as the base material for painting with (very) broad brushstrokes a rough setting with taiga and steppe elements. A couple of tables are thrown in, along with three unusual items (a table with magical coins connected to one of the possible spirit habitations is bound to appear in the immediate future).
As far as the
raw materials are concerned, they are the following four beliefs of
indigenous Siberian people, all extracted from Aboriginal Siberia:
-A
woman wishing to become pregnant should eat spiders. (Kamchadal
people)
-A
child born in storm must
be killed (Kamchadal people)
-Two
pregnant women should not be allowed to inhabit the same house, in
case the two unborn children communicate and decide which mother
should die. (Yukaghir
people)
-Souls
destined to be newborn children are hanging from the crossbeams of a
god’s house. (Koryak
people)
as
well as the Arachne and Paris’ judgment myths of ancient Greece.
