After they bathe and play in the water, the maidens return to fetch their clothes, when one of them notices there is a reptile lying on theirs. In 3 volumes]. She was the patron goddess of Athens, defended many beloved heroes, and even fought alongside the Greeks in the Trojan War. The youngest leaves and tries to find her garments, but a snake is lying on top of them and will only return her the clothes with the promise of marriage. She returns home. 2015. Hearing of the incident, the goddess Athena got infuriated and turned Medusa's hair into snakes. [129] In his tale, titled The Snake, the serpent lies on the smock of a girl named Masha. However, a cadre of black snakes begins to slither out of the river to their house. "Egle zalka lgava. [17], The tale is one of the most researched in Lithuanian scholarship, under different approaches,[a] since "it represents the old Lithuanian worldview". Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. ), 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. The old woman allows her daughters to join the others. One day, the princess finds a louse in her father's hair, who decides to fatten the bug and use its hide as part of a suitor riddle: whoever guesses the nature of the hide shall marry the princess. In Chinese mythology, the woman-headed snake Nwa made the first humans. The youngest child reveals how they reach their house: their mother goes to the edge of a lake, sings a song and the snake father appears in a boat. 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. 137-138 (text), 422 (source for entry nr. Moskva: , 1975. pp. The girl visits her family and one of her sisters asks her what she does to return to her palace in the bottom of the lake. The next morning, Zuhra says her goodbyes to her mother and goes back to the lake. 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. Past the gate, the snake uncoils itself, hits a golden staircase and becomes a human man. In: This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 14:40. In: Sauka, Leonardas. Sauka, Leonardas, sudarymas, rengjas [com, cre]. Salomja Nris, a Lithuanian poet, wrote a poem called Egl ali karalien (1940), which is based on the motifs of the tale. The water goblin gets angry and thumps on the door, ordering the girl to go with him because his dinner has to be made. Afterwards, returning to the shore to get dressed, she found a serpent in her clothes. Crying, the girl becomes a birch near the shore, while her children become trees. On the wedding night, the snake kills her. The girl becomes a weeping birch and her son a tree branch. ( )" [Serpent as a Bride and an Intimate Partner of a Man. . [102][103], According to scholarship, only one Belarusian variant of the tale contains the daughter's transformation into a frog. 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. [39], The tale about a snake spouse is also considered by Russian scholarship to be a "common Slavic" or "pan-Slavic" fairy tale, with possible Indo-European origins. [76] Rausmaa also stated that the tale type was rare ("Harvinaisesta", in the original) in Finland, with its four variants collected from Ingria (Finnish: Inkeri). FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 3 (2): 12. Sauka, Leonardas, sudarymas, pareng [com, cre]. [74], German scholar Oskar Dhnhardt[de] collected an untitled Estonian tale: a king has a daughter and three sons. One day, the girl is sent to wash some clothes at the beach when a wave crashes and carries them away. At first, she is hesitant and afraid, but relents and, after seeing that the snake can change into a handsome man, accepts him wholeheartedly. Jrmungandr is a famous sea creature from Norse mythology known as the Midgard Serpent or the World Serpent. Danae The daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Queen Eurydice, . They served Hades, the god of the Underworld, and Persephone, the goddess of spring and queen of the Underworld. The grandfather goes to the lake with a rifle, summons the snake and shoots him. The feast is going on for three weeks, and thereafter the couple lives happily together. While Iphicles screamed in fear, Heracles grabbed one snake in . In his analysis of Lithuanian folktales (published in 1936), he previously classified the tale as 425D*, alio mona ("The Girl as Wife to a Snake"), with 27 variants reported until then. Despite her immense power, she was depicted as highly competitive with both mortals and other gods. 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. [23] The name of the serpent husband may also vary between tellings: ilvinas, Zilvynas, Zelvynas, or ilvytis. Watch Extra Mythology ad-free on Nebula! 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. [99], In a tale collected from a Karelian source with the title "-" ("The Reptile Beloved"), twelve maidens go to bathe in the sea and leave their clothes on the shore. ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. "On the Cult of the Snake in Ancient Baltic and Slavic Tradition (based on language material from the Latvian folksongs)". Her husband agrees to let her visit her family with her son, teaches her a spell and give her gold to gift her family. 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. When they finished bathing, a snake appeared and hid the maiden's shift in exchange for her hand in marriage. -: , 1971. pp. Years into their marriage, the snake takes off the snakeskin to become a man, and they have three daughters. [117], In another West African folktale from the Mandinga people, A noiva da serpente ("The Serpent's Bride"), there lived two sisters, Cumba and Sira. [31], According to Bernard Sergent, "humananimal marriage is an union that is too remote as incest is a too close one. The serpent frequently appears in myths and 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. A water snake (a crested newt, in the original) announces it is a louseskin and marries the girl, taking her to its underwater palace. His legs were the same. In: Kayanidi, L.G. 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). A similar assessment was made by professor Jack V. Haney, to whom the tale type appears "only around the south Baltic coast". " ". The girl accepts, if only to get her garments back. Notes for mythology about gods, goddesses, and demi-gods demi gods hercules (herakles or heracles) description achilles perseus orpheus helen best known for his . Snakes were associated with death and thunder which link with Ryujin's role as a bringer of rain and storms. In: , [Ryzhakova, Svetlana Igorevna] (2009). In: . " ". The narrative tells that the human maiden marries another "kidnapped" person that was living with the "lake people", named Osip Tsarevich. 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. While some elements of the original mythology remained, the character's evolution did not . According to historian Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), the Greeks used the Medusa story to justify the destruction of idols and temples of an ancient goddess mother wherever they found them. 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. First, his sons are threatened and beaten with the scourge by their uncles, in attempt to make them disclose how to summon their father; however, they remain silent and do not betray him. online streamer | 3.6K views, 269 likes, 139 loves, 419 comments, 27 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Irina Allyson: Hoppy Easter! ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. In: Stryczyska-Hodyl, Ewa. Manannn mac Lir is a sea deity and referred to as the first ruler of the Manx Nation and very closely linked with the Isle of Man. When he was still an infant, she sent snakes to attack him in his crib. [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"). At the end of the tale, after her mother kills Osip, the maiden curses her son into a dove, her daughter into a swallow and herself into a cuckoo. , . [3] 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. They come to claim Egl as their master's bride and their future queen, but are tricked by her relatives each time. "Krybikumo proveriai pasakoje "Egl ali karalien"" [Outbreaks of creativity in the tale "Egl - the queen of serpents"]. [78], Professor Jack V. Haney stated that variants of type 425M appear "frequently recorded among the Russians", but "less frequently by Belarusians and Ukrainians". On the third year, the girl herself visits her family with her children, then returns to the water. After the birth of their first child, the abducted wife sings it a lullaby about her past, which enrages the water goblin. [77], Author August Lwis de Menar[de] collected a variant from the village of Voloitsa (Valyanitsy), on the Soikino peninsula. In: muida, Eugenijus. lekonyt, Jrat. Again the mother tells him to leave them alone, after which the goblin says their child is hungry and crying. [15] Her suitors are to discover what material the shoes are made of (tale type AaTh 621, "The Louseskin"). Herecles notes mythology herecles notes the greatest and most popular greek heroes. [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. Moscow: , 2009. p. 54. The snake promises to give it back if she marries it. In: lekonyt, Jrat. It is an instinctive fear. Thus, through no fault of her own, she incurred the wrath of Hera upon herself. 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. Angry with Zeus ' interest for her, the goddess showed no mercy towards Lamia: every time the girl gave birth to a child, Hera either murdered it or made Lamia kill it herself. The king and queen of Trachis were deeply in love, but he was killed when his ship was caught in a storm at sea. [112], Folklorist Terrence Hansen, in his catalogue of Latin American folktales, identified two tale types wherein a girl meets an enchanted fish and is taught magic to summon fish (in one type) or to bring fresh water (in the other). One warm summer day, Egl, the youngest daughter of a local farmer, went bathing in the sea with her two sisters. The femme fatale is a character archetype found across many different cultures and mythologies - and Ancient Greek mythology is no exception. Medusa did not come into existence as a woman with a head of snakes. [11], This tale is classified, in the AarneThompsonUther Index, as tale type ATU 425M, "The Snake as Bridegroom"[12] (formerly "Bathing Girl's garments kept [until promise of marriage with aquatic being]"). That evening, a giant snake comes out of the sea and knocks at the girl's door. She does and takes her three children with her. 133-142. One day, their daughters wish to visit their grandparents. Human suitors test their skills. The religious reception ties into this, as does the Freudian interpretation that . The girl, dismissing the snake's fanciful notion, agreed to anyway. As for the youngest, she treats him with kindness and, on the wedding night, he takes off his snakeskin to become a handsome man. A dangerous, seductive, and beautiful woman, examples of the femme fatale abound in Greek myths. [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. Scythian She-Dragon. Born during the Qing dynasty, Hu Tianbao found himself attracted to an official of the local government, spying on him naked through a hole in his bathroom wall. 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. The snake crawls, it is cold, it comes silently and suddenly. The Tuatha D Danann is a race of Celtic people with supernatural abilities. At least 12 different approaches are reported. In another myth, Hera sent two snakes to kill Heracles when he was still an infant. Before she was cursed with her terrible new form, she was a powerful but relatively innocent woman. The girl returns home that same evening and the reptile comes to take his bride. German scholar Rainer Eckert also described both stories as having a "surprising correspondence". [15] As such, some versions avert the tragic ending by following the narrative of other tale types, like ATU 425A and ATU 425C. She explains she lives underwater and to return she only has to call on her husband's name: Ahmet. The moment she hands down her first garment into the water, the bridge on which she was sitting collapses. Sauka, Leonardas. It is also a noun meaning tree species spruce (Latin: Picea) and fir,[4] with cognates in other Baltic languages: Latvian egle 'spruce, fir', and Old Prussian addle 'spruce, fir'.[5]. [67], The tale type is reported from Southern Estonia, "especially in the Setu region". 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. "" ": ". When the mother tells him to go away and eat whatever he has for dinner in his lair, he knocks again, saying his bed needs to be made. [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. After meeting the long lost family member, Egl's relatives do not wish to let her return to the sea and decide to kill ilvinas. Shocked, upset, hesitant (how can she, a person, marry a grass snake? Papa-Water gives her plenty of fish and teaches her a magic song to summon him and the fishes. [9], The tale was translated into German language as Egle, die Schlangenknigin by German professor Carl Cappeller[sv] in his book of Lithuanian folktales,[10] and as Das Weib des Schlangenmannes ("The Wife of the Snake-Man"), and published in Mitteilungen der Litauischen literarischen Gesellschaft. The fisherman returns home and discovers his wife had given birth to a baby girl named Jegle. The two elder brothers try to summon the snake brother-in-law, but he recognizes their voices do not belong to his wife. . [106], In a tale from the Tatar people titled "" ("Zuhra"), an old couple try to have a child, but none of their children survive, until they have a girl they name Zuhra. [24], Researcher Galina Kabakova cites that most variants feature a serpent husband: a snake, a boa, a winged serpent, even a Hydra-like dragon. One day, he meets a despondent fisherman on the shore, who laments to the sea prince that he has not caught any fishes. A woman appears from the lake, becomes an old man and enters the court. A snake was likewise kept at the shrine of Apollo where it was tended to by a naked virgin. 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"). Once more about the semantics of serpent in European folk-lore]. Shahmaran is a mythical creature, half snake and half woman, the first human she encounters is a young man named Camasb (also known as Yada Jamsab, Jamisav, Jamasp in other versions of the story). 170-171. She reaches home and spends some time there. Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA) Hecate (Hekate) is a goddess of Greek mythology capable of both good and evil. [57] Following a less mythological approach, scholar Endre Bjtar suggested that its diffusion across Lithuania owes to the local snake cult,[58] recorded in historical sources. Moscow: , 2009. p. 49. It symbolized the pharaoh's role as lawmaker and maintainer of order, protecting the Egyptian people from the forces of chaos. The other girls flee in fear, while Mirzhan runs to the shore to get her clothes, but a snake sits on them. 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. 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. 818 Likes, 7 Comments - (@belarusian_monsters) on Instagram: "", . He is usually associated with the Tuatha D Danann. [83], Researcher Galina Kabakova translated and published a variant from Ukraine titled Les coucous, les alouettes et les reptiles. Her mother learns the secret command to summon the snake husband (called Isai Isanych) and kills the husband with a scythe. Pasaka par zalkti baltu identitti veidojos ststs" [Spruce the Bride of the Grass Snake. 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). Leningrad: , 1979. p. 132. Hundreds of different wings were grafted onto his body. 4, 2011, pp. [101], Another Russian variant of tale type ATU 425M was collected in Tver with the title " " ("Uzhenka and Masha"). The old woman convinces her daughter to spend a night on her old home, while she goes in the dead of night to the shore to summon the snake spouse and kill him. To the princess's surprise, the snake becomes a man at night, and after a year she gives birth to a son. #1 Late Night. [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. She guesses correctly and takes the girl as daughter-in-law and wife for her son. [87], Bronisaw Sokalski published another Polish variant with the title Krl ww ("The Serpent King"). " (425 ) " [HISTORY OF RECORDING OF FOLKTALE GRASS-SNAKE AS A HUSBAND (BATHING GIRLS GARMENT KEPT UNTIL PROMISE OF MARRIAGE) (425 M) AMONG RUSSIANS]. She was a woman from the waist up with the tail of a serpent in place of legs. High quality Queen Of Snakes-inspired gifts and merchandise. "" ": ". pp. Ryujin was thought to appear in people's dreams and briefly in the moment of waking up. The girl's brothers torture their nephews in the bath house and they tell their uncles the secret command. After nine days, Egl arrives at the seashore and calls her husband, but unfortunately only the foams of blood return from the sea. [29] It is also said that the ancient Lithuanians revered the grass snake (altys). Afraid to utter any word, the Black Snake then assures her it will come back when she is eighteen, and slithers back into the lake. A domesticated goose, a sheep and then a cow are given instead of the bride to the legion of the grass snakes, but once they start a journey back home, the cuckoo, who is sitting in the birch tree, warns them about the deceit. 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. After pestering her daughter with questions, Zuhra eventually tells her the secret command. They terrorized anyone who had the misfortune to see them. While Athena was a mythological figure, the Cult of Athena was very real. [22], In another version of the tale, the king of snakes is named altys, they live in his palace at the bottom of the sea, and the tale ends with the transformation of her four children and herself into trees: her into a pine tree, her sons into an oak, an ash, and a birch, and her daughter into a weeping willow. FACTS ABOUT HERA. Cumba follows her sister to a location near the water, and sees Sira chanting a song to summon an enchanted serpent from the waters. In: . She becomes the mother of twins (a girl and a boy). He also teaches her a command to summon him when she returns, and makes her promise to keep it a secret. , [Ryzhakova, Svetlana Igorevna] (2009). known as slayer . Mictlntcutli is the Aztec god of death, king of Mictlan. Greek Mythology. "Veikj ir viet vardai, j kaita Egls pasakoje" [Names of characters and places and their change in the fairy tale "The snake as bridegroom"]. Years pass, and the girl is missing life on the land. [49] The tale is also said to be known in Germany, Finland and among the "Cheremis" (Mari people). 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. [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. Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. . [Kazakh folk tales. 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. "Egl, die Knigin der Nattern. " ". It is the child of Loki and giant Angrboa. The girl and her mother board up the doors and windows and wait for a sudden storm to pass. "Le mari-serpent ou Pourquoi le coucou coucoule". In a variation of the story, Princess Himal is a human and her lover Nagaray is a nga - a snake-like being that lives in a watery realm, and at the end of the tale deities Shiva and Parvati reunite both lovers by resurrecting their ashes in a magical spring. On the other hand, if the tale ends with the transformation of the family into birds or reptiles, it is a tale from East Slavic origin. The girl begins to cry and becomes a birch tree, her two elder daughters birch bark and the youngest a trembling leaf. In this variant, The Water Snake or Ujak, an old woman's daughter went to bathe with other girls in the pond. His hands were made up of 100 coiled snakes. 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. She is the sister of Vasuki, king of Nagas and wife of sage Jagatkaru. From the very beginning, Heracles was hated by Hera, Zeus' queen. The full myth of Perseus and Medusa begins years before they battled. [111], In a Kazakh variant, " " ("Beautiful Mirzhan and the Ruler of the Underwater Khanate"), Mirzhan, the beautiful only daughter of an old woman, is bathing in the water with some friends. 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. "Romeo Moses and Psyche Brunhild? 261-264. In Sumerian and Old-Babylonian literary tradition the snake was a wise creature and an granted miraculous herbs for eternal youth and immortality. In this tale, a beetle appears on the maiden's dress and proposes to her. 90 likes, 5 comments - (@elizah_leigh_art_writer) on Instagram on January 15, 2021: ""What . They are known as Nagas, and they played a very important role in shaping the consciousness of this nation and many other cultures. Correctly and takes her three children with her two sisters, hesitant ( how can she, a giant comes. 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