mokosh was one of the most popular slavic deities and the great earth mother goddess of east slavs and eastern polans. she is a wanderer and a spinner. her consorts are probably both the god of thunder perun and his opponent veles. in saying, the former katičić follows ivanov and toporov (1983) without further corroborating their claim. katičić also points to the possibility that as goddess vela she is the consort of veles, and might even be interpreted as another form of the polymorph god veles himself. mokosh is also the mother of the twin siblings jarilo and morana.