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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:
By Ukrainian artist Liudmyla Nikolaevna Semykina (also, Lyudmyla Semykina, Ukrainian: Людмила Миколаївна Семикіна, 1924- 2021), “Mistress of the Copper Mountain: Etude”, 1959, private collection.
From Wikipedia: “The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (Russian: Хозяйка медной горы, romanized: Khozyaika mednoi gory;[a]), also known as The Malachite Maid (Russian: Малахитница, romanized: Malakhitnitsa), is a legendary being of the Ural miners.. said to be the Mistress of the Ural Mountains of Russia.. A character of Slavic mythology and Russian fairy tales…
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain has the appearance of an extremely beautiful young woman with green eyes… or sometimes a mature woman, though unmarried, as indicated by her unscarved hair… Some of her more distinctive features include dark braided hair, ribbons from thin tinkling copper, and a gown that is made from malachite. She wears a diadem decorated with malachite and precious stones… The mistress can appear as a lizard herself… sometimes wearing a crown… and has the mountain lizards under her command… She may also assume the form of a snake.”
