Goddess for Dark Days, Witches - and Rebirth!

This is the first of three short videos (hmm, there was kind of a 4th!) for this year's Time of Spirits- the Latvian season between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice. Like All Hallows Eve or Samhain, this is a time when the separation between the world of the living and the dead or spirits weakens. It is not just a day or two, though, it is a whole season (one of eight through the year). This season Veļu laiks (Time of Spirits) ends with the Cross-quarter Day (actually November 5-7, often in modern Latvian marked on Nov 10; this is the same astronomical date simplified to October 31, or Nov 1 in traditions like Halloween, Samhain, Day of the Dead etc). In Latvia this date is called Mārtiņi or Mārtiņdiena -Martin's Day- which has both Christian and pagan implications- more about that in the other video. In this one, I've chose to focus on another deity with importance for the coming season of Ledus laiks (Time of Ice): Ragana, goddess of witches, of wild places, of death, rebirth, reg