Golden Woman

The Golden Woman, Golden Hag, or Golden Lady (Russian: Золотая баба, romanized: Zolotaya baba; archaic name: Злата баба, Zlata baba; Latin: aurea anus, aurea vetula), is a legendary idol, an alleged item of worship of the indigenous peoples of northeastern Europe and northwestern Siberia. Early references about it are contradictory, both in its geographical location and in description.

Maciej Miechowita in his Tractatus de duabus Sarmatis Europiana et Asiana et de contentis in eis (1517) described it as follows:

Accipiat quinto, quod post terram Viatka nuncupatam in Scythiam penetrando iacet magnum idolum Zlota baba, quod interpretatum sonat aurea anus seu vetula, quod gentes vicinae colunt et venerantur, nec aliquis in proximo gradiens aut feras agitando et in venatione sectando vacuus et sine oblatione pertransit, quinimo si munus nobile deest, pellem aut saltem de veste extractum pilum …

摘自英文维基百科「Golden Woman」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。