Ruth Blake - Baba Yaga - Official Music Video

Original Song by Ruth Blake from album ’Creation’, released September 2018. Copyright 2018 All rights reserved. Video by Chloe Purcell @chloepuppeteer Album available to buy direct from artist , also all digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, Spotify. Ruth Blake - Guitar and vocals Ben Capp - U-bass, drum kit, shaker Tristan Stibbards - Frame drum Song and video inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ re-telling of the Russian folk tale, ’Baba Yaga’, or ’Vasilisa the Wise’ from her book ’Women Who Run With the Wolves’. The song also weaves in the the myth of La Loba, the woman who sings over the bones, as well as one of William Blake’s infamous Proverbs from Hell, “Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead’. Infinite gratitude from my heart to these powerful sources of inspiration. This song honours the energy of Baba Yaga, Kali, La Loba - where the new is knitted out of the old; the fierce and cold compassion of death breathes space for new life to birth; the snake must eat its own tail for the circle of life to continue unbroken. In the song we call upon the fierce witch of the psyche, Baba Yaga, the fire and death keeper of our soul, whom if we meet with great humility and courage, surrendering to the wisdom of our intuition, she will empower us with a fierce discernment, vanquishing our inner demons and fueling the fire of our hearts’ purpose. Video style inspired by the unique shadow animation style of Lotte Reiniger. Follow Ruth Blake: Website: Bandcamp: Spotify: Soundcloud: Instagram: Facebook: Twitter: Buy Me A Virtual Coffee (even though I don’t actually drink coffee): LYRICS: Chorus: Mm mm Baba Yaga I am calling you calling x4 V1: Send your plough o’er the bones of the dead And let the ground renew the skin that you’ve shed x2 Chorus V2: Dig deeper, dig deeper, dig up the dead Knit their bones into homes for the souls that you’ve fed x2 Chorus V3: Heart beating, heart beating, deep in my body Be my teacher, let me reach my deepest fear and release it x4 Calling you, calling you, calling you, calling you x2 Dig deep, dig deep, heart beat Teach me, reach me, release x2 Mm mm mm Baba Yaga! Mmm mm mm Baba Yaga! Chorus