A donkey is one of his symbols because he would ride a donkey instead of a chariot. Suddenly, the girl's mother asks her how she can summon her reptile husband, and the girl reveals the secret. () Tai naratyvas, kuris reprezentuoja senj lietuvi pasaulir ir kiekvienas jo tyrimas yra savaip vertingas." They live in an underground kingdom called Naga-loka, or Patala-loka, which is filled with . The girl obeys and a human prince appears. A female naga is called a Nagi, or a Nagini. [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. In: This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 14:40. 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. Hearing of the incident, the goddess Athena got infuriated and turned Medusa's hair into snakes. 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. 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). She explains she lives underwater and to return she only has to call on her husband's name: Ahmet. The god of the sea has a handy dispensary of useful medicines, too, especially those which can guarantee a long life. [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"). Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. , no. She was a woman from the waist up with the tail of a serpent in place of legs. At first, she is hesitant and afraid, but relents and, after seeing that the snake can change into a handsome man, accepts him wholeheartedly. -: , 1984. pp. The snakes escorted her out of the house and into her fiance's underwater palace. In Greek mythology, the Gorgons were snake-women whose gazes would turn people to stone; they had serpents for hair, long claws, sharp teeth and scales covering their bodies. "Romeo Moses and Psyche Brunhild? Scythian She-Dragon. Thereafter she turns her sons into strong trees - an oak, an ash and a birch. 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. "Egle zalka lgava. 63). [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. In Hindu mythology, snakes have been depicted as both powerful and feared creatures, often associated with divinity, and are believed to have a significant impact on humans. . In: Palmaitis, Letas. The uncles go to the beach, sing the song to summon the snake man and kill him. ". Moscow: , 2009. p. 54. One day, he meets a despondent fisherman on the shore, who laments to the sea prince that he has not caught any fishes. THE DRAKAINA SKYTHIA (Scythian Dracaena) was the first ruler of the land of Skythia. Tom 2. . Years pass, and the girl is missing life on the land. " " [Mari Folk Tales]. Barag, Lev. 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. The girl accepts, if only to get her garments back. During the wedding festivities, the snake climbs onto her lap, but the girl shoos him away. On the wedding night, the snake kills her. A snake was likewise kept at the shrine of Apollo where it was tended to by a naked virgin. It is an instinctive fear. [15] [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. "Ados Martinkus studija apie Egl". 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 . Ryujin was thought to appear in people's dreams and briefly in the moment of waking up. The snake-like head is a symbol of her cunning, a perversion of the matrifocal ancient goddess who the Greeks must destroy. [23] The name of the serpent husband may also vary between tellings: ilvinas, Zilvynas, Zelvynas, or ilvytis. The uncles go to the beach, summon the sea prince and kill him with spears. Despite her immense power, she was depicted as highly competitive with both mortals and other gods. For the next week, her mother forbids her to set foot outside their yurt. The storm ends with a loud crash that stirs up the mother and her daughter. The next day, the snake asks her to prepare the oven and to throw it in the fire. 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. 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. She convinces her husband to let her go to the surface to visit her parents, and he gives her gold and silver to gift his mother-in-law. , no. 83-87. 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. In: Luven, Yvonne. According to Greek myths, she was a very beautiful young woman who had many suitors. Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. [81] In addition, in these variants, the mother-in-law is the one that kills the snake husband. Her suitors are to discover what material the shoes are made of (tale type AaTh 621, "The Louseskin"). Artifacts and carvings made in the image of the snake have been found all across the world. He marries the elder in church. Day in and day out Nw amused herself making mud figures and watching them come to life. [84] She also cited variants wherein the daughter becomes an ortie (nettle) or a cuckoo, and the son becomes a basilisk or a nightingale. While some elements of the original mythology remained, the character's evolution did not . "Ukeikimai, magikos formuls ir vard problema balt "ali karaliens" variantuose" [Spells, magic formulas and the problem of names in the Baltic variants of the tale "The queen of grass-snakes"]. Broken Bridge (From mid-Qing to late-Qing. The elder two leave the lake and, take their garments and go home. In a furious rage the goblin returns to the lake and through the shrieking storm screams that pierce the soul are heard. Three years passed and she returned to her mother's house with two little children, a boy and a girl. 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. She likes to spend her days dipping her feet in water, and a large green fish plays between her feet. [102][103], According to scholarship, only one Belarusian variant of the tale contains the daughter's transformation into a frog. She agrees to his proposal and the snake comes later to take her to his underground palace. In this tale, a beetle appears on the maiden's dress and proposes to her. That evening, a giant snake comes out of the sea and knocks at the girl's door. online streamer | 3.6K views, 269 likes, 139 loves, 419 comments, 27 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Irina Allyson: Hoppy Easter! The reunion of mother and daughter is very emotional and they eventually hug despite daughter's promise. Human suitors test their skills. The girl's brothers torture their nephews in the bath house and they tell their uncles the secret command. 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. 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. 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. [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 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). She marries the reptile, which lies on the rivers, and she has two children with him when he becomes human. The feast is going on for three weeks, and thereafter the couple lives happily together. Years pass, the fisherman's wife dies and Jegle runs the house while her father and brothers are away. Zaltis agrees to let her visit his father-in-law, and he brings her to the surface world. ( )" [Serpent as a Bride and an Intimate Partner of a Man. In: Behr-Glinka, Andrei I. The girl visits her family, but her brothers consult with a nearby witch, who reveals the sons know how to summon their father. [51][52][53] Some stories mention that the king of the grass snakes was wearing an amber crown or that he lived in an amber palace - a motif that recalls another Baltic fairy tale: Jrat and Kastytis. The exact location of their bathing remains undisclosed. FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 3 (2): 12. 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. In: lekonyt, Jrat. Ancient Egypt had a vast array of Gods and Goddesses. [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. . . . As for the youngest, she treats him with kindness and, on the wedding night, he takes off his snakeskin to become a handsome man. 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. [38], Another view, espoused by scholar Eugenijus muida, is that the tale harks back to a myth about a maiden offered as the bride to a snake (who represents a deity of waters). Hundreds of different wings were grafted onto his body. Like many beautiful demi goddesses in Greek mythology, she became the object of Zeus's affections. Cumba follows her sister to a location near the water, and sees Sira chanting a song to summon an enchanted serpent from the waters. Greek Mythology. [129] In his tale, titled The Snake, the serpent lies on the smock of a girl named Masha. They live happily for a time, until the day Jegle begins to miss her father and wishes to visit him. When they finished bathing, a snake appeared and hid the maiden's shift in exchange for her hand in marriage. This happens for the next two nights, until the girl agrees to go with the reptile. 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. When he was still an infant, she sent snakes to attack him in his crib. "Veikj ir viet vardai, j kaita Egls pasakoje" [Names of characters and places and their change in the fairy tale "The snake as bridegroom"]. [73], In a tale from the Lutsi Estonians collected by linguist Oskar Kallas with the name Ussiks niutud mees ("The Man Enchanted to be a Snake"), a couple prays for a son, and God gives them a snake. 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. "Apuleius' Cupid Considered as a Lamia (Metamorphoses 5.17-18).". In: . He sets a riddle for any suitors: whoever guesses the right material of both mantles, shall marry the princess. 8 Tu Er ShenChinese Mythology. 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. All of Medusa's siblings were monsters by birth and, even though she was not, she had the misfortune of being turned . 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. ""Egl ali karalien": gyvybs ir mirties domenas" ["Egl the queen of serpents": domain of life and death]. In: . They do not say a word to their sister about the horrible crime they have just committed. The serpent emerges from the water and is killed by the man. The full myth of Perseus and Medusa begins years before they battled. " 425M ". Lamia was a beautiful Libyan queen loved by Zeus. 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. The couple keep her safe from the world, until she is fourteen years old, when some girls from the village enter the couple's house and beg for Zuhra to join them for playtime int he water. In: Stryczyska-Hodyl, Ewa. [104], In a tale from the Mari people titled " " ("Blind Love"), some sisters go to bathe in the water. [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). [77], Author August Lwis de Menar[de] collected a variant from the village of Voloitsa (Valyanitsy), on the Soikino peninsula. . . ; . She was a daughter of Poseidon and a queen of Libya. 4, 2011, pp. ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. The serpent is a symbol immortality, which according to ancient beliefs was demonstrated by the shedding of its skin. She agrees; the snake returns the garments and teaches her a command to summon him, Yaku. Its mythological background has been an interest of Lithuanian and foreign researchers of Indo-European mythology. Delighted, she made another figure, and another and another, and each came to life in the same way. Lvena, Ivonne. The girl navely reveals the command to her sister, who goes to the shore of the lake, summons Yaku and kills him. She becomes the mother of twins (a girl and a boy). She then enchants her son to become a beetle, her daughter a dragonfly, and herself a cuckoo. The moment she hands down her first garment into the water, the bridge on which she was sitting collapses. "Lietuvi pasak tyrim imtmetis: nuo tradicins komparatyvistikos iki iuolaikini metod" [Hundred years of the Lithuanian folktale research: from the traditional comparativism to the modern methods]. The princess bears the snake man three daughters and goes to visit her family. The next day, the girl and her daughters go back to the lake. In this tale, the heroine goes fishing and a creature named Papa-Water appears to her, intent on marrying her. [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. According to some. The grandfather asks his grandchildren about where they live; the youngest girl tells him about the snake husband and the magical song. Pasaka par zalkti baltu identitti veidojos ststs" [Spruce the Bride of the Grass Snake. 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]. 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. High quality Queen Of Snakes-inspired gifts and merchandise. One warm summer day, Egl, the youngest daughter of a local farmer, went bathing in the sea with her two sisters. Volume 3: Russian Wondertales 1 - Tales of Heroes and Villains, https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/neskazochnaya-proza-velizhskogo-rayona-smolenskoy-oblasti-obschee-i-osobennoe-v-lokalnoy-traditsii, : , , , , Typenverzeichnis der bulgarischen Volksmrchen, Children Born from Eggs: African Magic Tales: Texts and Discussions, Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index, Some Day Been Dey (RLE Folklore): West African Pidgin Folktales, Review of Loreto Todd, Some Day Been Dey: West African Pidgin Folktales, https://repository.upenn.edu/nelc_papers/109, Litteratura dos negros: contos, cantigas e parbolas, https://doi.org/10.1524/slaw.1998.43.1.94, Oxford India Short Introductions Series: Kashmir, "Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos, EGLS PASAKOS VARIANTAI XIX A. ANTROJE PUSJE, Wdrwki po guberni augustowskiej w celu naukowym odbyte, The Tricolour Sun: Latvian Lyrics in English Versions, an Essay on Latvian Poetry, and Critical Commentaries, Le mari-couleuvre ou Pourquoi le coucou coucoule, "IF YOU KILL A SNAKE THE SUN WILL CRY". "Lietuvi pasak tyrim imtmetis: nuo tradicins komparatyvistikos iki iuolaikini metod" [Hundred years of the Lithuanian folktale research: from the traditional comparativism to the modern methods]. Gorgon Medusa. Before she was cursed with her terrible new form, she was a powerful but relatively innocent woman. They served Hades, the god of the Underworld, and Persephone, the goddess of spring and queen of the Underworld. Also Kekrops, an early king of Athens who was depicted as being Closer to Earth by having the lower body of a snake. When he . [41], A quantitative study, published by folklorist Sara Graa da Silva and anthropologist Jamshid J. Tehrani in 2016, seemed to indicate that the tale type shows a certain antiquity: based on a phylogenetic model, both researchers estimated that the ATU 425M type belongs to an "ancestral tale corpora" of the Balto-Slavic languages. Many were a mix of animal and human characteristics, but none were more prolific and older than Wadjet. 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. The snake crawls, it is cold, it comes silently and suddenly. "TENDENCIES OF THE FORMATION AND USAGE OF BALTIC NOUNS WITH SUFFIX -UT- IN LITHUANIA". Variants collected at East Lithuania show the transformation of the children into birds. The girl wishes to go back home to show her father the child, and, despite some reservations, the snake husband allows her to pay him a visit, by teaching a spell to access her watery home. Watch Extra Mythology ad-free on Nebula! Sauka, Leonardas, sudarymas, rengjas [com, cre]. It is the child of Loki and giant Angrboa. " ". [65][66], In a Latvian tale from Ansis Lerhis-Pukaitis's (lv) collection, from Jelgava, translated into Hungarian with the title Hogyan lett a kakukk? 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"). He is usually associated with the Tuatha D Danann. Moskva: , 1975. pp. [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. Over a hundred slightly diverging versions of the plot have been collected. [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. However, when the time comes, the sky darkens and a retinue of snakes, jinns and peris come to Zuhra's house in their master's name. In: Sauka, Leonardas. Hopi Indians and dan cing ritual with s nakes, American Indians al . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological queens. (2016). Then after three days, thousands of grass snakes march into the yard of her parents' house. As the wife of Zeus, the king of the gods, she was considered the queen of the gods. 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. The snake appears in a carriage to get his bride and take her to his underwater realm. Jegle goes to the lake to meet Zaltis, who is in human form, and takes her to his underwater palace. In this tale, three sisters are bathing in the water. 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