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Baba Yaga (feat Rory Hinchey)

from Eros in the Natural World by Kouns & Weaver

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Hidden somewhere deep in a Slavic birch forest, living in a hut made of chicken legs, with no windows and a door with a keyhole of sharp, gnashing teeth there is a dangerous and wise old woman who can either roast you alive and devour your flesh or help you on your difficult sojourn through this painful world, depending on her mood. She rides on a pestle through the black midnight sky with a broom sweeping away her tracks through the virgin snow and is gloriously unjust and merciless. Perhaps it is so that she has many names, but let’s intone the name of one of her many incarnations and let us turn our backs to the forest and our front to her for a moment so we can learn her secrets and have a draught of her terrifying sagacity. O Baba Yaga come to us in our secret fever dreams. Teach us about the robust, cruel delicacy of the natural world and how necessary it is to approach the Spirit realm with the proper awe and esteem. Speak to us of the paradoxes of ambiguous morality and help us to learn that being kind is not always the proper implement and that sometimes savagery is the proper reply. Tattoo on our lost, wayward hearts how essential cruelty and ferocity are and give us clear headed discernment when we should arm ourselves with these requisite tools to upend and disarrange the absurd order that plagues our world. On this mysterious earth, your savagery is sometimes the only proper antiphon for the deranged prayer that is ceaselessly mouthed by the callous destroyers of this earth. There’s always one skull missing from the human bones that make up the fencepost that guards your cabin. We trust that in your wisdom, you will always know which disembodied head to put there.

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from Eros in the Natural World, released June 20, 2021

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