consider the symbols of those images that ancient civilizations saw in the Pleiades, the word баба( grandmother ) was very often used in relation to the Pleiades, in Ukraine they called Баби, in Russia бабы, the Serbs called "бабини штани" (sticks), this word was also used in relation to  to knowing women, healers, sorceresses, while the latter were called a woman hierascheska, a woman of an empty hair, where the connection between a woman and hair is also highlighted, and we remember that the Pleiades were also called Hair.  Also, a woman is a harmful female creature with loose hair, such as demonic creatures that send diseases.  The dead ancestors and characters of evil spirits were designated as grandmothers and grandfather, for example, a white woman, a water mermaid, woman of forest demons, and a grandmother Mara kikimoru, as well as Baba Yaga, they called a famous sorceress living in the forest in a hut on chicken legs.  who is a frequent character in many fairy tales. also in Vedic astrologers, the nakshatra krittika which is ruled by the Pleiades is a demonic nakshatra. flattening of postpartum diseases and painfultsev.
 In addition, the word "baba" was often found in the names of days and seasons.  So, for example, among the Bulgarians, Macedonians and Serbs, the incarnation of March was Baba Marta - an anthropomorphic creature fighting with his brother Small Sechko (February).  Serbs and Croats had beliefs about Baba Korizma as the embodiment of the seven weeks of Great Lent: it was believed that she walks with seven sticks and throws one stick every week of fasting;  in southern Montenegro, it was used to frighten children asking for something modest in fasting.  Among the Serbs, the snowy days in March were called "Babini days", "Babini yarci", "Babini kolichi" ("Woman's days, women's goats, women's goats").  Among the Bulgarians, Babin's day was called the day of the midwife, and in the center.  Polissya with the name "Baba" denoted the second memorial day after Grandfathers.
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