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From: W. Wertelecki M.D.

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Baba Yaga Mortal Mortar Pest Pestilence Pestle


BABA YAGA is the only witch who flies in a MORTAR ... Mortars and pestles are used make a paste or pesto ... to make powders for medical pills. ... has also to do with pester and pestilence. ... this riddle points to MECONIUM or sterile greenish pasty fetal feces and to MECONISM or addiction to OPIUM. ... MORTAR points to MAKITRA and MAKOHON. ... focused on MAK, MEKON, and MAKENEION ... the extraction of POPPY juice and the making of a MECONIUM-like paste from which opium is extracted. ... people like to consume opium as denoted by MECONOPHAGIS and, if addicted, to suffer from MECONISM ... BABA YAGA also represents life or a life-death duality found in many other deities including in the well known Shiva. ...



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