Women who can shift into the Wind (Rain, Storms, Lightening) – Polish shamanic women’s traditions. Uncle – the newer word, post-Christianity, in Old Polish means “Favorable Winds”,
Uncle also means old ( strujus – old man). In prehistory (before religion and even pagan religions) there were no words, just experience. Stryk – means a person changing place, so Stryja is a Goddess shifting, changing place (between woman and wind or storm). Her nickname has many meanings: a stylish and tuning (jokes), ztrojona – triple, trojąca, trying too hard, busy, hardworking, thrifty and ‘ster’- meaning tired. Storm , hurricane at sea, storm, chord resounding, causing the sound to flow like a stream – flowing (not just water but also wind) all belong to the prehistory of women’s shamanism.
There is a superstition saying that a strong, sudden wind blowing for no apparent reason at all, is the announcement of ‘changes’ coming. Stryja Wind, or gust of wind, blowing, blowing, blast , and at the same time relates to the inner breath, breathing, and for that derived from the same root of soul-breath, meaning that Stryja, a goddess and in prehistory ‘woman shaman’ gives breath and breathe life into something or takes life away (smykająca) – destruction.