" " [Mari Folk Tales]. "Veikj ir viet vardai, j kaita Egls pasakoje" [Names of characters and places and their change in the fairy tale "The snake as bridegroom"]. In Thailand, the Naga is a Pluto-analogue, an underworld deity associated with wealth. Kostiukhin, E. A. " . [21], Folklorist Norbertas Vlius has also developed an academic interest in the narrative and analysed its elements ("the dual nature of Egle, the attributes of the snake, the types of plants") in relation to the folklore of other countries. The girl agrees to come with him to the lake. FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 3 (2): 12. Liliana Daskalova Perkowski, Doroteja Dobreva, Jordanka Koceva & Evgenija Miceva. [63][64], In another tale, Das Schlo des Meeresknigs or " " ("The Palace of the Sea King"), the son of the Sea King gets curious about the land above the sea and decides to visit it. Enraged grass snakes return for a final time and threaten everyone with dry year, deluge and famine. According to researcher Svetlana Ryzhakova, the tale first appeared in print in 1837, published by one M. Jaseviiaus or M. Jasaviius, in the supplement Biruta. In: Behr-Glinka, Andrei I. According to Greek myths, she was a very beautiful young woman who had many suitors. The snake asks the girl to be his wife and to live with him in his crystal palace. Day in and day out Nw amused herself making mud figures and watching them come to life. Dromantait-Stancikien, Aist. After the birth of their first child, the abducted wife sings it a lullaby about her past, which enrages the water goblin. [2], The tale was also collected by Polish writer Jzef Ignacy Kraszewski and published in his historical work Litwa. In: . Zobarskas, Stepas. , . Apollo (Greek god of healing, medicine, music, and poetry): Lyre (musical . In Sumerian and Old-Babylonian literary tradition the snake was a wise creature and an granted miraculous herbs for eternal youth and immortality. A snake was likewise kept at the shrine of Apollo where it was tended to by a naked virgin. The Nagas ( Sanskrit: , romanized : Nga) [1] are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half- serpent beings that reside in the netherworld ( Patala ), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art. Hopi Indians and dan cing ritual with s nakes, American Indians al . They found her in the middle of the Red Sea, surrounded by demons, where she was employed in her new role, namely giving birth to a hundred-plus monsters a day, known as lilim. From the theodical foundation myth of Pandora, the first human woman to be created by Hephaestus, beautiful women prove disastrous for the men they seduce . [48] Altogether, the variants collected outside Lithuania and Latvia, from 11 countries, amount to 106 versions. Jegle is happy to visit her father, but her brothers secretly decide to take her back from the King of the Lakes. In: This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 14:40. The fisherman is thankful for the rescue, and asks what he can offer in return; Zaltis says he wants the fisherman's most valuable thing, and promises to grant him fish for hiw whole life. Bagoinas, Saulis. [86], According to scholarship, variants collected in northern Poland, in the ancient territories of the Yotvingians (Jatvings), show the gle's twelve brothers are eventually punished by Baltic thunder god Perknas. She takes her sons to visit her brothers, and the brothers pry the children for anything. It symbolized the pharaoh's role as lawmaker and maintainer of order, protecting the Egyptian people from the forces of chaos. However, the princess's younger brother mimics her voice and tricks the snake into coming out of the water, only to be beheaded by the princess's brothers. , no. "Egl, die Knigin der Nattern. She was a woman from the waist up with the tail of a serpent in place of legs. When he . However, ilvinas (perhaps intuitively being afraid to lose his wife or sensing his fate) denies her permission to leave the Grass Snake palace. The priests of Heliopolis, followers of the sun god Re, developed the myth of Isis. In the first type, the girl drowns herself in the sea; in the other, she sinks to the ground after she sees the dead fish. The snake appears in a carriage to get his bride and take her to his underwater realm. [67], The tale type is reported from Southern Estonia, "especially in the Setu region". In: Luven, Yvonne. In: . URL: , . [3], gl is a popular female name in Lithuania. Sensing something wrong, she inquires her daughters about it: the youngest confesses. In: . Ein Schlangenmrchen als identittsstiftende Erzhlung der Balten". 67-75. Hephaestus (Greek god of metalworking, blacksmithing, craftsmanship): Hammer, anvil, fire, donkey, and volcano. The snake crawls, it is cold, it comes silently and suddenly. On the third year, the girl herself visits her family with her children, then returns to the water. A young maiden named Egl discovers a grass snake in the sleeve of her blouse after bathing with her two sisters. [82], English scholar A. H. Wratislaw collected the tale Transformation into a Nightingale and a Cuckoo from "Little Russia" in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources. During the wedding festivities, the snake climbs onto her lap, but the girl shoos him away. As the wife of Zeus, the king of the gods, she was considered the queen of the gods. [98] The tale was originally collected by Russian philologist Dimitry M. Balashov[ru] from informant Elisaveta Ivanovna Sidorova, from Tersky region, in the White Sea, with the title " " ("Lake Bettle - Groom"). The girl begins to cry, but a voice tells her it will return the clothes if she becomes the voice's wife. [62], In a Latvian tale, translated into Russian as " " ("The Bride of the Snake") and into English as The Sea Snake's Bride, three girls run to the beach to play in the water. Her husband agrees to let her up on the shore, but she has to eat a loaf of bread (that does not diminish) and wear out a pair of shoes (that do not wear out). [6][7], The tale was translated as Spruce, Queen of the Grass Snakes. " ". Also Kekrops, an early king of Athens who was depicted as being Closer to Earth by having the lower body of a snake. ". The god of the sea has a handy dispensary of useful medicines, too, especially those which can guarantee a long life. [79], Galina Kabakova notes that, among the East Slavic populations, the tale type ATU 425M assumes the features of an etiological tale:[80] as remarked by professor Natalie Kononenko, it shows the origins of the cuckoo, the lark and the nightingale. [40] Another line of scholarship states that the tale refers to an ancient "Balto-Slavic totemic myth". She is worshipped by many in India, particularly in Bengal . ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. They transfer to the nearby island, and from there to the underground underneath the sea, where a nicely decorated palace is located - Egl's new home for eternity. #1 Late Night. The reunion of mother and daughter is very emotional and they eventually hug despite daughter's promise. Shocked, upset, hesitant (how can she, a person, marry a grass snake? THE DRAKAINA SKYTHIA (Scythian Dracaena) was the first ruler of the land of Skythia. She opens the door and answers to the snake's wishes: to be given food and to sleep next to her in her bed. [37] Balticist Letas Palmaitis[lt], citing Bronislava Kerbelyte[lt] and Meletinsky, described the tragic fate of Egle's family as consequence of tribalism: her brothers kill the 'animal' husband because he belongs to another tribe or group, and, for bearing his sons, Egle and her children must also disappear. However, a cadre of black snakes begins to slither out of the river to their house. In this tale, titled Wie die Trauerbirke entstanden ist ("How the weeping birch came to be"), a rich man finds a louse on his daughter's hair, fattens it, kills it and makes a pair of shoes out of its hide. When the youngest sister leaves and looks for her garments, the maiden sees a huge snake sitting on her garments. Some time later, as the old woman waits near the shore, she sees her daughter coming to her with two children, her sons. Hearing of the incident, the goddess Athena got infuriated and turned Medusa's hair into snakes. Hera was the goddess of marriage, family, and childbirth and was often portrayed as a regal and influential figure. [116] The story was considered by folklorist Dan Ben-Amos as belonging to the type 425M. "Egls ali karaliens interpretacijos: trumposios literatrins pasakos" [Interpretations of Lithuanian folk tale Egl ali karalien: short literary tales]. The old woman places her grandchildren to bed, and, taking a saber, goes to the lake in the dead of night to summon the Black Snake (the "padishah of the jinn"). and snake. Her husband agrees to let her visit her family with her son, teaches her a spell and give her gold to gift her family. There's the mi. It is an instinctive fear. The exact location of their bathing remains undisclosed. "Popularno motywu "O onie wa" w folklorze i literaturze Batw". Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. A relatively minor deity of Chinese mythology, Tu Er Shenor Hu Tianbao, as he was known when he was mortalis the god of homosexual love and marriage. Speaking in a human voice, the grass snake repeatedly agrees to go away only after Egl pledges herself to him in exchange for him leaving her clothes. [43], Although it can be considered a tale type developed in the Baltic area, since most of the variants have been recorded there,[44][45][b] variants are reported by scholar Leonardas Sauka to have been collected in nearby countries: 23 variants in Estonia (near Lake Peipus);[47] 150 Lithuanian versions; 89 Latvian versions; 28 from Russia; 22 from Belarus; 6 in Ukraine; 3 from Poland; 2 from Bulgaria. After her visit, Jegle goes to the edge of the lake to wait for her husband; her brothers follow her and wait for Zaltis to come out of the lake. Years into their marriage, the snake takes off the snakeskin to become a man, and they have three daughters. [95], According to Russian scholarship, the tale type 425M sometimes merges with ATU 703, "The Snow-Maiden" in many Russian variants. Tyr m Norse Mythology From Tr, the Old Norse form of the name of the Germanic god *Twaz, related to Indo-European *Dyws (see Zeus).In Norse mythology he was a god associated with war and justice, by some accounts a son of Odin.While the gods bound the great wolf Fenrir, Tyr placated the beast by placing his right hand in its mouth.After the binding was successful, Fenrir bit off Tyr's hand. Jrmungandr is a famous sea creature from Norse mythology known as the Midgard Serpent or the World Serpent. muida, Eugenijus. To this plea the mother tells him to bring the child to them. The feast is going on for three weeks, and thereafter the couple lives happily together. The Black Snake slithers off to the surface, and is beheaded by the old woman. the dance, live snakes were handled and at the end of the dance the snakes were released into the fields to guarantee good crops. Pasaka par zalkti baltu identitti veidojos ststs" [Spruce the Bride of the Grass Snake. [30] Under this lens, the grass snake could be seen as a totemic ancestor, akin to the swan maiden, who plays the role of ancestress of many peoples. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home deco. She tries to calm him down and pleads to be allowed ashore to visit her mother once. 585 ff (trans. Scythian She-Dragon. lekonyt, Jrat. Bellerophon provides a lesson in the proper relationship between a mortal hero and the gods. (2014). Human suitors test their skills. Variants collected at East Lithuania show the transformation of the children into birds. As soon as the lacustrine king emerges, his brothers-in-law try to grab him, but his magic turns them into stones. (2016). He explains she disenchanted him and he will make her his wife as the "Queen of the Seas" ("du wirst fortan Knigin des Meeres sein"), in his palace in the middle of the sea. On the wedding night, the snake kills her. Legend states that when the snake lets go of its . Egl the Queen of Serpents, alternatively Egl the Queen of Grass Snakes (Lithuanian: Egl ali karalien), is a Lithuanian folk tale, first published by M. Jasewicz in 1837. [61] According to the Latvian Folktale Catalogue, the heroine curses her sons to become trees and herself to become a cuckoo. In Greek and Roman mythology, the snake symbolizes a guardian spirit and was inscribed on many altars. . The grandfather goes to the lake with a rifle, summons the snake and shoots him. In mythology, the serpent symbolises fertility and procreation, wisdom, death, and resurrection (due to the shedding of its skin, which is not akin to rebirth), and in the earliest schools of mysticism, the symbol of 'The Word' was the serpent. A mother tells her young daughter of a dream she had about clothing her daughter in white robes swirling like foaming water and with pearls of tears hiding deep distress around her neck. [105], In a tale attributed to the Chuvash people, " " ("About the girl and the snake"), three sisters run to the shore to play and bathe in the water. "[32], Lithuanian scholarship seems to agree with this assessment: the snake is the ruler of waters and represents a chaotic world. Three years pass, and the snake's human wife has given birth to a boy and a girl. Papa-Water gives her plenty of fish and teaches her a magic song to summon him and the fishes. online streamer | 3.6K views, 269 likes, 139 loves, 419 comments, 27 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Irina Allyson: Hoppy Easter! [68] According to Estonian folklorists (who worked in conjunction with the Lithuanians), the Estonian archives registered 34 variants of the tale type,[69] and, at the end of the tale, the serpent's wife becomes a birch or aspen and her children turn into bark or leaves. At the end of the tale, when she discovers the dead husband, she commands the elder son to become an oak, the middle child, a girl, to be a linden tree; the youngest into another tree; and herself into a cuckoo, to ever sigh over her lost love. Danae The daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Queen Eurydice, . The princess asks which of her daughters spilled the secret song (the youngest), and curses herself to become a birch tree, and her daughters to turn into parts of the tree (foliage, tree bark and membrane). All of Medusa's siblings were monsters by birth and, even though she was not, she had the misfortune of being turned . Moscow: , 2009. p. 49. The earliest records in existence indicate this snake god was closely tied to the rain and water god, Tlaloc, and that his original domain was vegetation. Ryujin was thought to appear in people's dreams and briefly in the moment of waking up. [19], The tale has become the object of scholarly interest of ethnologist Jonas Balys[lt]. Its liaison with a human woman, which produces children, violates the boundaries between the world of land and the world of water[33][34] and, by killing the snake, the natural order (that is, separation between land and water) can be restored. Note that serpent men are different to "man serpents", which are typically depicted the other way round, having the bodies of giant snakes but the heads of human beings. The snake promises to give it back if she marries it. In: Kabakova, Galina. Her brothers want to kill the underwater husband, so they leave early and wait by the lake with wooden bats. [119][d] Indian scholarship states that the tale exists in the oral repertoire of the region, with multiple renditions appearing in both Persian and Kashmiri in the 18th and 19th centuries. Egl almost forgets about her homeland, but one day, after being questioned by her oldest son uolas about her parents, she decides to visit her home. 227 likes, 23 comments - (@graisonsfinejewellery) on Instagram: "**Personal collection at the moment . She accepts it and goes back home. SINKEVIIT, Daiva. Both of them had twelve sons and three daughters. The third time, he gets his bride and takes her to his underwater kingdom. Her sons change into water and she returns to her human family. Despite her immense power, she was depicted as highly competitive with both mortals and other gods. The maiden "saw she had manifest death before her" and, by her command, orders her children to become birds: the boy a nightingale and the girl a cuckoo, and it is implied that a dead nettle is what remained of her. Thor battling the Midgard Serpent by Emil Doepler. The girl returns to the beach with an armed man and sings the song of invocation. B Brunhild (11 P) C Clodhna (12 P) F Fairy Queens (9 P) G Queens in Greek mythology (4 C, 142 P) Q Now, she is a bloodthirsty villain who slithers through the darkness of the night, searching for children to devour, or walks in beauty through the daylight, searching for . Variants have also been found from Tatar (4 tales) and Kazakh (1 version) sources. The snake takes her to his splendid underwater palace and reveals he must suffer some time under a curse: he is human under the snakeskin. Stryczyska-Hodyl, Ewa. After pestering her daughter with questions, Zuhra eventually tells her the secret command. This told that Isis was the daughter of the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut and the sister of the deities Osiris, Seth, and Nephthys.Married to Osiris, king of Egypt, Isis was a queen who supported her husband and taught the women of Egypt how to weave, bake, and brew beer. He gives in on three conditions: She is not to embrace a single soul, not even her mother; she has to leave the baby behind as a hostage; and she will return by the bells of the evening vespers. She tries to summon her husband, but, realizing something is wrong, she finds the snake's body. Cumba follows her sister to a location near the water, and sees Sira chanting a song to summon an enchanted serpent from the waters. and takes it out on Alcmene instead of on Zeus - Hera sends two snakes to the cradles: baby heracles strangles both snakes - Heracles is brought up with the best and then learned . The man explains he was taken by the genie race when he was little, but eventually became their leader, and the girl has nothing to fear. -: , 1984. pp. Lvena, Ivonne. . Zuhra and her children go back to the surface world and visit the grandparents. Crying, the girl becomes a birch near the shore, while her children become trees. Compared to a balanced marriage, between humans but from another clan or another village, that is to saydepending on the societywithin the framework of a well measured endogamy or exogamy, incest transgresses the norm because it is an exaggerated endogamy, and animal marriage transgresses it because it is an exaggerated exogamy. After she gets an advice from the sorceress (a potential referral to the Lady of the Sea or Lady of the Cave) and succeeds in completing these three tasks, ilvinas reluctantly lets Egl and the children go. In 3 volumes]. "On the Cult of the Snake in Ancient Baltic and Slavic Tradition (based on language material from the Latvian folksongs)". [13] These tales are closely connected to type ATU 425 ("Search for the Lost Husband"), ATU 425A ("Animal as Bridegroom"), ATU 425B ("Cupid and Psyche" or "Son of the Witch")[14] and ATU 425C ("Beauty and the Beast"). She becomes the mother of twins (a girl and a boy). After seeing the dead husband, Masha curses her daughter to become a swallow, her son to be a nightingale and herself to be a cuckoo.[130]. The angels deliver God's message to her: She can return to Adam, no harm no foul, or God will kill 100 of her children every day. To her surprise, the serpent spoke to her in a man's voice and demanded that she promise to become his wife for the return of her clothes. 83-87. Gorgon Medusa. Past the gate, the snake uncoils itself, hits a golden staircase and becomes a human man. [71], In an Estonian tale translated into Hungarian as A kirlylny bocskora, a king prepares two mantles, one made from louseskin, the other from flea skin. Z zagadnie przysowioznawstwa, https://doi.org/10.17161/folklorica.v3i2.3670, HISTORY OF RECORDING OF FOLKTALE GRASS-SNAKE AS A HUSBAND (BATHING GIRLS GARMENT KEPT UNTIL PROMISE OF MARRIAGE) (425 M) AMONG RUSSIANS, The Complete Russian Folktale. ""Egl ali karalien": gyvybs ir mirties domenas" ["Egl the queen of serpents": domain of life and death]. Salomja Nris, a Lithuanian poet, wrote a poem called Egl ali karalien (1940), which is based on the motifs of the tale. [102][103], According to scholarship, only one Belarusian variant of the tale contains the daughter's transformation into a frog. She is known by many names including Buto, Uatchit, Uadjet, and Edjo to name a few (McDevitt). Afterwards, returning to the shore to get dressed, she found a serpent in her clothes. "Romeo Moses and Psyche Brunhild? On a warm summer evening all three girls decided to go swimming. She made humans one at a time with clay. "Le mari-serpent ou Pourquoi le coucou coucoule". " ". One day, the girl is sent to wash some clothes at the beach when a wave crashes and carries them away. The deepest part of the underworld, that is, and Mictlntcutli was in charge. The moment she hands down her first garment into the water, the bridge on which she was sitting collapses. The water goblin gets angry and thumps on the door, ordering the girl to go with him because his dinner has to be made. She warns her daughter not to go to the lake but the daughter is drawn to the lake anyway. The Black Snake then appears and demands Zuhra as his bride. The snakes escorted her out of the house and into her fiance's underwater palace. A snake slithers from beneath the well, goes to the king's court, and guesses the right answer. Zeus was afraid of her. As soon as he emerges from the lake, the brothers jump out of the hiding spot and beat the husband to death. The Serpent Queen Reveals Just How Modern Catherine De Medici's Story Really Was "In a world where we talk about glass ceilings, she was somebody who broke a concrete ceiling, and she did it. As the story continues, the girl's relatives imitate her voice to draw out the fish and kill it. Eckert, Rainer. ( )" [Serpent as a Bride and an Intimate Partner of a Man. She was usually represented as a winged female creature having a head of hair consisting of snakes; unlike the Gorgons, she was sometimes represented as very beautiful. The next day, the snake asks her to prepare the oven and to throw it in the fire. Sauka, Leonardas, sudarymas, pareng [com, cre]. There are several Aztec gods and goddesses of the underworld, but Mictlntcutli is the most prominent one. Medusa is a classic example of this, and indeed many other man serpents have the hypnotic stare and superhuman strength that the snake queen is known for. ), but in a hurry to get rid of the persistent snake-like reptile, Egl agrees to marry, while not fully understanding the potential consequences and the gravity of her situation. FACTS ABOUT HERA. When the girl goes to the shore to return to her husband, she summons him and sees his head floating in the water. They are a strong, handsome species who can assume either wholly human or wholly serpentine form and are potentially dangerous but often beneficial to humans. A group of boys overhears the incantation and summons Papa-Water to kill him. Thus, through no fault of her own, she incurred the wrath of Hera upon herself. Hecate often carries a torch in her connection with the night. Jegle goes to the lake to meet Zaltis, who is in human form, and takes her to his underwater palace. Nagas and Lamias Some time later, the princess takes her daughters and prepares to return home by summoning her snake husband, the boat appears dirtied with her husband's blood. [94] Researcher Varvara Dobrovolskaya states that variants in Russia were collected in Kursk, Bashkiria, Ryazan, Voronezh and in East Siberia by the Lena river. Back to the castle, she spends some time with her brothers, who insist to know how their sister can return to the snake's home. Barag, Lev. Sauka, Leonardas. A feathered serpent of Aztec myth, Quetzalcoatl is believed to be the creator of man, and the dividing deity between the land and the sky. In this variant, The Water Snake or Ujak, an old woman's daughter went to bathe with other girls in the pond. Her old mother seizes a sickle and "rushed into the country". .. Dragons also represent the dark reaches of where we have come from - the sources of humanity's allegorical river, for which the snake has often been used as a metaphor. 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