[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. Pasaka par zalkti baltu identitti veidojos ststs" [Spruce the Bride of the Grass Snake. Eckert, Rainer. When Herakles was travelling through her realm with the cattle of Geryon, she stole some of the herd and insisted the hero mate with her before she would return . His legs were the same. The girl obeys and a human prince appears. The girl agrees to come with him to the lake. The girl begins to cry, but a voice tells her it will return the clothes if she becomes the voice's wife. A donkey is one of his symbols because he would ride a donkey instead of a chariot. (2020). "[32], Lithuanian scholarship seems to agree with this assessment: the snake is the ruler of waters and represents a chaotic world. 227 likes, 23 comments - (@graisonsfinejewellery) on Instagram: "**Personal collection at the moment . " . According to some. At least 12 different approaches are reported. known as slayer . In: Stryczyska-Hodyl, Ewa. . . ; . In: "It may be called a Baltic version of Aarne [type] 425". The girl returns to the beach with an armed man and sings the song of invocation. 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]. [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"). 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. 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. Herecles notes mythology herecles notes the greatest and most popular greek heroes. They live happily for a time, until the day Jegle begins to miss her father and wishes to visit him. She does and takes her three children with her. While Iphicles screamed in fear, Heracles grabbed one snake in . Cumba follows her sister to a location near the water, and sees Sira chanting a song to summon an enchanted serpent from the waters. Zeus was afraid of her. After some years, the girl wants to visit her human family, but the water snake sets a task: to wear down some pairs of iron shoes. He also teaches her a command to summon him when she returns, and makes her promise to keep it a secret. 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. 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"). The two elder brothers try to summon the snake brother-in-law, but he recognizes their voices do not belong to his wife. [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]"). The girl navely reveals the command to her sister, who goes to the shore of the lake, summons Yaku and kills him. She returns home. The Black Snake slithers off to the surface, and is beheaded by the old woman. 67-75. To this plea the mother tells him to bring the child to them. ". Bellerophon provides a lesson in the proper relationship between a mortal hero and the gods. 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). [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). 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. Like many beautiful demi goddesses in Greek mythology, she became the object of Zeus's affections. Jegle goes to the lake to meet Zaltis, who is in human form, and takes her to his underwater palace. In Egyptian mythology, the snake symbol represented royalty and divinity. Her brothers want to kill the underwater husband, so they leave early and wait by the lake with wooden bats. Afterwards, returning to the shore to get dressed, she found a serpent in her clothes. Philologist and folklorist Julian Krzyanowski (. [24], Researcher Galina Kabakova cites that most variants feature a serpent husband: a snake, a boa, a winged serpent, even a Hydra-like dragon. He mirrors only men; another forms the beasts and birds and the long sliding snakes.-Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. [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). Its mythological background has been an interest of Lithuanian and foreign researchers of Indo-European mythology; Gintaras Beresneviius considered it being a Lithuanian theogonic myth. A snake was likewise kept at the shrine of Apollo where it was tended to by a naked virgin. Zuhra and her children go back to the surface world and visit the grandparents. The third girl leaves the water and searches for her clothes, only to find a snake lying on top of them. [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. After Sira leaves, Cumba returns home to tell her mother everything. 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 next day, the snake asks her to prepare the oven and to throw it in the fire. [48] Altogether, the variants collected outside Lithuania and Latvia, from 11 countries, amount to 106 versions. FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 3 (2): 12. The snakes take Mirzhan and disappear with her beneath the waters, as her mother grieves for her lost daughter. A young maiden named Egl discovers a grass snake in the sleeve of her blouse after bathing with her two sisters. In: . 4, 2011, pp. Zaltis takes Jegle back to their palace, and explains her brothers will be restored to normal after a while. The next day, the girl and her daughters go back to the lake. Zaltis agrees to let her visit his father-in-law, and he brings her to the surface world. , no. Moscow: , 2009. p. 54. 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. In Egyptian mythology, the snake was a personification of the goddess Kebechet, who personified the purification of water in the funeral cult, and the snake was a protector of the pharaohs after death. Three years later, the girl visits her family carrying her two children in tow, a son and a daughter. The sea prince tells he will help him, on the condition that the fisherman gives him the first thing that is on the shore (which happens to be the fisherman's only daughter). They served Hades, the god of the Underworld, and Persephone, the goddess of spring and queen of the Underworld. [115], Professor Loreto Todd collected a West African (Cameroon) tale titled Bibaiyibaiyi an di papa-wata (Bibaiyibaiyi and the Papa-Water). Bagoinas, Saulis. In Chinese mythology, the woman-headed snake Nwa made the first humans. Three years pass, and the snake's human wife has given birth to a boy and a girl. Salomja Nris, a Lithuanian poet, wrote a poem called Egl ali karalien (1940), which is based on the motifs of the tale. When the snake is older, he goes to a neighbour to court his daughters. 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. "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]. She was a daughter of Poseidon and a queen of Libya. The sea prince takes her to his kingdom, marries her and she gives birth to two boys. The snakes escorted her out of the house and into her fiance's underwater palace. The girl begins to cry and becomes a birch tree, her two elder daughters birch bark and the youngest a trembling leaf. ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. The snake-like head is a symbol of her cunning, a perversion of the matrifocal ancient goddess who the Greeks must destroy. During the wedding festivities, the snake climbs onto her lap, but the girl shoos him away. 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. 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. It is an instinctive fear. In addition to these areas of influence, Hera was . Apollo (Greek god of healing, medicine, music, and poetry): Lyre (musical . [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"). [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. Lvena, Ivonne. She agrees to his proposal and the snake comes later to take her to his underground palace. 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. [1] The tale features not only humanreptile shapeshifting, but irreversible humantree shapeshifting as well. .. The man's wife goes to the beach and repeats the song to summon her husband, but he does not appear. The deepest part of the underworld, that is, and Mictlntcutli was in charge. The girl accepts, if only to get her garments back. [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). [2], The tale was also collected by Polish writer Jzef Ignacy Kraszewski and published in his historical work Litwa. She likes to spend her days dipping her feet in water, and a large green fish plays between her feet. "Buto is the Greek name for the town where her worship centered in the Nile Delta" (Babb . [95], According to Russian scholarship, the tale type 425M sometimes merges with ATU 703, "The Snow-Maiden" in many Russian variants. Although the Furies appear in the Iliad as spirits who make sure things are. 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. Medusa was the only Gorgon who was mortal; hence her slayer, Perseus, was able to kill her by cutting off her head. 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. https://go.nebula.tv/extramythologyIn Lithuania, there's a story about how the trees got their names. Nagas and Lamias 142-144. The water goblin gets angry and thumps on the door, ordering the girl to go with him because his dinner has to be made. In: Palmaitis, Letas. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological queens. [74], German scholar Oskar Dhnhardt[de] collected an untitled Estonian tale: a king has a daughter and three sons. She was however raped by the sea god Poseidon in Athena's temple. Sauka, Leonardas, sudarymas, pareng [com, cre]. [84] She also cited variants wherein the daughter becomes an ortie (nettle) or a cuckoo, and the son becomes a basilisk or a nightingale. [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. Their sister goes to the lake shore and summons her husband. "Le mari-serpent ou Pourquoi le coucou coucoule". 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. She accepts it and goes back home. B Brunhild (11 P) C Clodhna (12 P) F Fairy Queens (9 P) G Queens in Greek mythology (4 C, 142 P) Q Category:Mythological queens Queens regnant and Queens consort depicted in mythology . renown and appeal went later into movies like hercules, etc. 4. pp. 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. [94] Researcher Varvara Dobrovolskaya states that variants in Russia were collected in Kursk, Bashkiria, Ryazan, Voronezh and in East Siberia by the Lena river. This happens again with the middle sister. [114], Scholar Hasan El-Shamy lists 2 variants of the tale type found in Algeria, under the previous name of the type. 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. After she put her daughter and grandchildren to bed, the old woman uttered the incantation, drew forth the snake husband, in human form, out of the palace and decapitated him with an axe. Day in and day out Nw amused herself making mud figures and watching them come to life. "TENDENCIES OF THE FORMATION AND USAGE OF BALTIC NOUNS WITH SUFFIX -UT- IN LITHUANIA". Sensing something wrong, she inquires her daughters about it: the youngest confesses. Its main head supported 100 snake heads, which made different animal noises. The snake makes the girl give her ring in exchange for the garments, and slithers back into the water. Meanwhile, the girls are bathing in the lake. 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. 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. ""Egl ali karalien": gyvybs ir mirties domenas" ["Egl the queen of serpents": domain of life and death]. Mictlntcutli is the Aztec god of death, king of Mictlan. Thor battling the Midgard Serpent by Emil Doepler. 81-82. He is usually associated with the Tuatha D Danann. Zuhra goes with the girls to bathe in a nearby lake and leaves her clothes on the shore. Perseus was the son of Danae, daughter of Acrisius the King of Argos, and Zeus. In: lekonyt, Jrat. Years pass, the fisherman's wife dies and Jegle runs the house while her father and brothers are away. 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. 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. When the youngest sister leaves and looks for her garments, the maiden sees a huge snake sitting on her garments. Manasa is the daughter of Lord Shiva and is also known as the queen of serpents. [97], Professor Jack Haney published another Russian variant, titled The Lake Beetle as Groom. The elder two leave the lake and, take their garments and go home. 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. A woman appears from the lake, becomes an old man and enters the court. Sauka, Leonardas. The serpent is a symbol immortality, which according to ancient beliefs was demonstrated by the shedding of its skin. 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. The next morning, Zuhra says her goodbyes to her mother and goes back to the lake. [96], British scholar William Ralston Shedden-Ralston translated a variant collected by Erlenwein from the Tula Government. 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. [55], The tale type is recognized as being "most at home in the Balto-Slavic regions". [8] Hungarian scholar Endre Bjtar[hu] called it Egle (Silver Pine), the Snake Goddess and Egle (Silver Fir), the Snake Queen. Some time later, as the old woman waits near the shore, she sees her daughter coming to her with two children, her sons. When the snake's human wife returns to the shore, she sees a cut off snake head floating in the lake. On the third year, the girl herself visits her family with her children, then returns to the water. In this tale, a beetle appears on the maiden's dress and proposes to her. "Ados Martinkus studija apie Egl". She often had a serpent's tale even when the rest of her form was that of a beautiful woman. In: , 1 (11): 11. Papa-Water gives her plenty of fish and teaches her a magic song to summon him and the fishes. Her old mother seizes a sickle and "rushed into the country". Moskva: , 1975. pp. While some elements of the original mythology remained, the character's evolution did not . " ". . [31], According to Bernard Sergent, "humananimal marriage is an union that is too remote as incest is a too close one. 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. 4, 2011, pp. Its mythological background has been an interest of Lithuanian and foreign researchers of Indo-European mythology. That evening, a giant snake comes out of the sea and knocks at the girl's door. [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. As soon as he emerges from the lake, the brothers jump out of the hiding spot and beat the husband to death. [3] [4] [5] Camasb gets stuck in a cave after he tries to steal honey with a few friends, his friends leave him alone in the cave. From the very beginning, Heracles was hated by Hera, Zeus' queen. [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. 81-82. The girl sees the dead husband and commands the son to become a lark and the daughter a cuckoo, while she is washed away by the waves, never to be seen again. Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic 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"]. [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. [54], According to researcher Galina Kabakova, the fate of the children at the end of the tale is important to determine the origin of that particular variant (based on a geographical method): in the main Lithuanian versions, mother and children are transformed into trees, a motif that occurs in versions collected from the Belarus's border between Poland and Lithuania, and in Russian versions collected in Lithuania. 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. [75], Tale type 425M is known in Finland as Uuza Vedenkuningas ("Uuza the King of Waters"), according to the Finnish Folktale Catalogue, established by scholar Pirkko-Liisa Rausmaa. Many were a mix of animal and human characteristics, but none were more prolific and older than Wadjet. She insists on visiting her parents and showing them their grandchildren, but her husband warns that disaster may loom upon their family. " ". Facts: Hephaestus made all of the weapons and armor for Mount Olympus. The uncles go to the beach, sing the song to summon the snake man and kill him. ("How did the cuckoo appear? 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. Before she was cursed with her terrible new form, she was a powerful but relatively innocent woman. Tom 2. (2016). When evening falls the mother forbids her daughter to go even when the bells are ringing. Sira bakes flour breads with "hydromel" (mead) to take to a mysterious person. Back to her castle, the princess's brothers express their distaste about their snake brother-in-law, and question their nieces about their home life. Before they enter her parents' house, the girl warns her daughters to keep quiet about their life. Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. A water snake (a crested newt, in the original) announces it is a louseskin and marries the girl, taking her to its underwater palace. Riga: , 1969. pp. SINKEVIIT, Daiva. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home deco. [85], A variant from Poland has been translated into English with the title Egle and Zaltis. , . Enraged grass snakes return for a final time and threaten everyone with dry year, deluge and famine. Despite her immense power, she was depicted as highly competitive with both mortals and other gods. They live together and have three sons. A little bird gives her a clue on how to fulfill both tasks and she tricks her husband. ), 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. 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