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Russian National Dance Show "Kostroma"

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Kostroma is the female counterpart of Kostromo and as such is connected with grain, both male and female aspects being seen as divine twins.They are, in fact, a part of a complex quadruple agrarian deity with male and female aspects considered as a single entity, the other pairings being Lado and Lada, Iarilo and Iarila, and Kupalo and Kupala. Sometimes the quadruple pairing within the deity was reduced to a single pairing, that pairing having different names in different regions. — Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic Myth and Legend, p. 156 --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 14:19, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

According to Russian article, the name actually comes from "kostra", a dialectal word for shives. Finstergeist (talk) 19:57, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am very much afraid, that this is not a real ancient myth, but an invention of modern neopagans.