pt. 1. Mothers: ch. 1. The first mothers -- ch. 2. Reconstructing the Russian great goddess: Rusalki and Baba Yaga -- ch. 3. Reconstructing the Russian great goddess: Mother Earth -- ch. 4. The coming of Christianity: Mary and Paraskeva-Piatnitsa -- pt. 2. Mothers' sons: ch. 5. Epic heroes and disobedient sons -- ch. 6. From saintly son to autocratic father: the myth of the ruler -- ch. 7. Pushkin and other champions from the intelligentsia -- ch. 8. The mother as Russia
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