Lada
the harmony, mother of the spring
earthLada is the goddess of love, marriage, and the green returning of the year, whose name is the word for order and for beauty both; to dream of her is to feel the winter breaking somewhere inside you, and to hear the first bird sing before the light.
Fragments
When the ice loosens, the girls sing her name in a round upon the hill, and where their voices fall the first green shoots are said to answer, pushing up to listen.
She and her son Lel go singing through the thawing woods, and no two hearts that hear that song can stay long strangers to each other.
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