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His eyes were glowing red. renown and appeal went later into movies like hercules, etc. [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. " ". The princess is given to the snake as wife and goes with the animal to its home. When the youngest sister leaves and looks for her garments, the maiden sees a huge snake sitting on her garments. [42], Although its ultimate time and place of origin cannot be settled with certainty, the Lithuanian myth has been compared with similar stories found among Native American peoples (Wayampi, Yahgan and Coos), which could be the result of an inherited Ancient North Eurasian motif featuring a woman marrying an aquatic animal, violating human laws on exogamy and connecting the terrestrial and aquatic worlds. It symbolized the pharaoh's role as lawmaker and maintainer of order, protecting the Egyptian people from the forces of chaos. The reptile promises to return her clothes if she agrees to marry her, to which she answers yes so she can get her clothes back. 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. However, a cadre of black snakes begins to slither out of the river to their house. In: Astramskait, Daiva (1993). [19], The tale has become the object of scholarly interest of ethnologist Jonas Balys[lt]. [3], gl is a popular female name in Lithuania. "Veikj ir viet vardai, j kaita Egls pasakoje" [Names of characters and places and their change in the fairy tale "The snake as bridegroom"]. (2014). " ( 425) ". Hephaestus (Greek god of metalworking, blacksmithing, craftsmanship): Hammer, anvil, fire, donkey, and volcano. In order to be allowed to visit home, Egl is required to fulfill three impossible tasks: to spin a never-ending tuft of silk, wear down a pair of iron shoes and to bake a pie with no utensils. A dangerous, seductive, and beautiful woman, examples of the femme fatale abound in Greek myths. 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. He then announces a contest to all prospective suitors: to guess the material of his daughter's shoes. The girl's brothers torture their nephews in the bath house and they tell their uncles the secret command. The femme fatale is a character archetype found across many different cultures and mythologies - and Ancient Greek mythology is no exception. As the wife of Zeus, the king of the gods, she was considered the queen of the gods. Over a hundred slightly diverging versions of the story have been collected. Tom 2. Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA) Hecate (Hekate) is a goddess of Greek mythology capable of both good and evil. [104], In a tale from the Mari people titled " " ("Blind Love"), some sisters go to bathe in the water. In this tale, the heroine goes fishing and a creature named Papa-Water appears to her, intent on marrying her. 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. In: Sauka, Leonardas. In: , [Ryzhakova, Svetlana Igorevna] (2009). The third girl leaves the water and searches for her clothes, only to find a snake lying on top of them. Three years pass, and the girl has been living in a splendid underwater castle, but begins to long for home. [107], Tale type ATU 425M is reported in the Bulgarian Folktale Catalogue with the name " "[108] or "Die Frau des Drachen verflucht ihre Kinder"[109] ("The Wife of the Dragon curses her children"): a dragon sits on the girl's garments in exchange for marrying her; they wed and move to his palace at the bottom of the sea, where she gives birth to two children; the girl visits her family with her children and her daughter betrays the dragon's secret, which leads to him being killed by his brothers-in-law; the girl then curses her children to become trees. Three years later, the girl visits her family carrying her two children in tow, a son and a daughter. [23] The name of the serpent husband may also vary between tellings: ilvinas, Zilvynas, Zelvynas, or ilvytis. 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. 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 . The religious reception ties into this, as does the Freudian interpretation that . naga, (Sanskrit: "serpent") in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, a member of a class of mythical semidivine beings, half human and half cobra. When she returns, a black snake (" ", in the Russian translation) is lying on them and asks the girl to marry it. 145-146. FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 3 (2): 12. 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. Artifacts and carvings made in the image of the snake have been found all across the world. Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. 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. The girl obeys and a human prince appears. 83-87. She guesses correctly and takes the girl as daughter-in-law and wife for her son. [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. 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. https://go.nebula.tv/extramythologyIn Lithuania, there's a story about how the trees got their names. Masha's mother is the one to kill the snake husband with a hatchet. The elder two leave the lake and, take their garments and go home. When opening the door the mother finds a tiny head without a body and a tiny body without a head lying in their blood on the doorstep of her hut. [88][c], In a Polish tale translated as Jegle and the King of the Lakes, a fisherman has two sons and goes to fish in the lake, when, suddenly, a storm begins to rage on the lake, threating to drown the man. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home deco. [121], Similarities can be found in Vodnk, a story written by Czech author Karel Jaromr Erben as a poem in the book Kytice z povst nrodnch ("A Bouquet of Folk Legends"). 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. In: "It may be called a Baltic version of Aarne [type] 425". When evening falls the mother forbids her daughter to go even when the bells are ringing. () Tai naratyvas, kuris reprezentuoja senj lietuvi pasaulir ir kiekvienas jo tyrimas yra savaip vertingas." Broken Bridge (From mid-Qing to late-Qing. Hopi Indians and dan cing ritual with s nakes, American Indians al . 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. She was a woman from the waist up with the tail of a serpent in place of legs. In: Stryczyska-Hodyl, Ewa. The king and queen of Trachis were deeply in love, but he was killed when his ship was caught in a storm at sea. 1998. A ballet Egl ali karalien by Eduardas Balsys and numerous plays have been staged in various Lithuanian theaters, for the first time in 1960, directed by Juozas Gustaitis. [114], Scholar Hasan El-Shamy lists 2 variants of the tale type found in Algeria, under the previous name of the type. Salomja Nris, a Lithuanian poet, wrote a poem called Egl ali karalien (1940), which is based on the motifs of the tale. Hundreds of different wings were grafted onto his body. The next two years, her mother goes to the sea shore and asks about her daughter. [2], The tale was also collected by Polish writer Jzef Ignacy Kraszewski and published in his historical work Litwa. [96], British scholar William Ralston Shedden-Ralston translated a variant collected by Erlenwein from the Tula Government. URL: "Ji pagrstai gali bti laikoma balt lietuvi ir latvi pasaka, nes daugiausia jos variant urayta Lietuvoje ir Latvijoje." Kabakova, Galina. They do not say a word to their sister about the horrible crime they have just committed. They live together and have three sons. Mictlan is the realm where Quetzalcoatl went and revived human civilizations. The poem is about a water goblin who is sitting on a poplar by his lake, singing to the moon and sewing clothes for his wedding soon to come. Once upon a time, a white snake and a green snake living in a remote mountain became immortal and obtained super powers after centuries of practices. Enraged grass snakes return for a final time and threaten everyone with dry year, deluge and famine. Kostiukhin, E. A. Instead of seeing a serpent or a grass snake on the seashore, Egl meets her bridegroom ilvinas, who appears to be a handsome man - the Grass Snake Prince. [55], The tale type is recognized as being "most at home in the Balto-Slavic regions". 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. After much insistence, the brothers learn of the secret command and go to the seashore. The Black Snake slithers off to the surface, and is beheaded by the old woman. One of the main characters in this fairy tale is a grass snake (Lithuanian: altys), but because it seems to inhabit the sea-adjacent lagoon (Lithuanian: marios), the word may actually refer either to a mythical aquatic snake or a European eel (Anguilla anguilla). The youngest being named Egle. Medusa - whose name probably comes from the Ancient Greek word for "guardian" - was one of the three Gorgons, daughters of the sea gods Phorcys and Ceto, and sisters of the Graeae, Echidna, and Ladon. The girl begins to cry, but a voice tells her it will return the clothes if she becomes the voice's wife. In Greek mythology, a Gorgon (derived from "gorgos", meaning terrible) was a monster that was known to have the ability to turn onlookers into stone.It was said that there were three Gorgons, two immortal (Euryale and Stheno) and one mortal, Medusa, they had hair made of living, venomous snakes that they received as punishment from Athena, Medusa's image has become famous. 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