The book is the first study in Russian historical literature devoted to the emergence, development and decline of the Slavic matriarchal religion. Based on a large amount of factual material, with the involvement of domestic and foreign written sources, data from archeology, comparative mythology, linguistics, psychology and ethnography, the author examines the emergence and evolution of images and individual features of the main goddesses of Slavic paganism. The author believes that the goddesses go back to the original image of the Great Mother Goddess, with whom our distant ancestors associated such concepts as love, wisdom, fate, life and death. In addition, a detailed study of the images of individual goddesses sheds light on some dark moments that preceded the emergence of the Old Russian state. The book is intended both for specialist historians and for a wide range of readers interested in the spiritual tradition of their ancestors.