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. [84] She also cited variants wherein the daughter becomes an ortie (nettle) or a cuckoo, and the son becomes a basilisk or a nightingale. the dance, live snakes were handled and at the end of the dance the snakes were released into the fields to guarantee good crops. The grandfather asks his grandchildren about where they live; the youngest girl tells him about the snake husband and the magical song. [74], German scholar Oskar Dhnhardt[de] collected an untitled Estonian tale: a king has a daughter and three sons. 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. "Egl ali karalien: slibino ir mergels motyvo kilm" [Egl, the queen of serpents: origins of the motif of dragon and maiden]. The girl begins to cry and becomes a birch tree, her two elder daughters birch bark and the youngest a trembling leaf. From the very beginning, Heracles was hated by Hera, Zeus' queen. She then questions her sons if any of them told anything about the secret song, and the youngest answers that he did. She warns her daughter not to go to the lake but the daughter is drawn to the lake anyway. FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 3 (2): 12. The storm ends with a loud crash that stirs up the mother and her daughter. [40] Another line of scholarship states that the tale refers to an ancient "Balto-Slavic totemic myth". Moscow: , 2009. p. 54. [116] The story was considered by folklorist Dan Ben-Amos as belonging to the type 425M. pp. One day, the girl is sent to wash some clothes at the beach when a wave crashes and carries them away. 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 DRAKAINA SKYTHIA (Scythian Dracaena) was the first ruler of the land of Skythia. Although the Furies appear in the Iliad as spirits who make sure things are. [3], gl is a popular female name in Lithuania. In: Felton, Debbie. Suddenly, the girl's mother asks her how she can summon her reptile husband, and the girl reveals the secret. Her husband agrees to let her visit her family with her son, teaches her a spell and give her gold to gift her family. In fact, she was a queen. Sauka, Leonardas. 137-138 (text), 422 (source for entry nr. The story of Lamia, Queen of Libya, a woman driven to eat her children, sometimes depicts the titular character as half snake. [3] However, ilvinas (perhaps intuitively being afraid to lose his wife or sensing his fate) denies her permission to leave the Grass Snake palace. In: Behr-Glinka, Andrei I. In the temple of Athena in Athens, a snake held in a cage was believed to be the reincarnation of Erichthonius, an early king in ancient Greece. 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. Before they enter her parents' house, the girl warns her daughters to keep quiet about their life. She marries the snake. When the girl goes to the shore to return to her husband, she summons him and sees his head floating in the water. He takes her to his underwater castle and marries her. Jegle is happy to visit her father, but her brothers secretly decide to take her back from the King of the Lakes. 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. [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. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. Thor battling the Midgard Serpent by Emil Doepler. [23] The name of the serpent husband may also vary between tellings: ilvinas, Zilvynas, Zelvynas, or ilvytis. [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 bears four children (three sons (uolas (Oak), Uosis (Ash) and Beras (Birch)) and one youngest daughter Drebul (Aspen)). Liliana Daskalova Perkowski, Doroteja Dobreva, Jordanka Koceva & Evgenija Miceva. Gorgon Medusa. 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 . She tries to summon her husband, but, realizing something is wrong, she finds the snake's body. 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. [128], A literary telling is attributed to Russian author Leo Tolstoy. 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. 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. In: , [Ryzhakova, Svetlana Igorevna] (2009). In: lekonyt, Jrat. [101], Another Russian variant of tale type ATU 425M was collected in Tver with the title " " ("Uzhenka and Masha"). 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. A woman appears from the lake, becomes an old man and enters the court. [6][7], The tale was translated as Spruce, Queen of the Grass Snakes. 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. Ein Schlangenmrchen als identittsstiftende Erzhlung der Balten". She guesses correctly and takes the girl as daughter-in-law and wife for her son. In Thailand, the Naga is a Pluto-analogue, an underworld deity associated with wealth. The reunion of mother and daughter is very emotional and they eventually hug despite daughter's promise. The Folk Tale about Grass Snake as a Story of Baltic Identity]. [Kazakh folk tales. Folktale Type 425-M: A Study in Oicotype and Folk Belief, Les contes du peuple lituanien dans la littrature contemporaine, English translation of the tale (following Salomja Neris' version), A version of the tale from Suwalski, Poland, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Egl_the_Queen_of_Serpents&oldid=1150329812, Eugenijus muida Egl ali karalien: gyvybs ir mirties domenas. A dangerous, seductive, and beautiful woman, examples of the femme fatale abound in Greek myths. 8 Tu Er ShenChinese Mythology. [35] By using the magical incantation to summon the snake bridegroom, Egle builds a bridge between her world and the aquatic one (or an underground, chthonic realm). In this variant, The Water Snake or Ujak, an old woman's daughter went to bathe with other girls in the pond. Hera was the goddess of marriage, family, and childbirth and was often portrayed as a regal and influential figure. She explains she lives underwater and to return she only has to call on her husband's name: Ahmet. As the wife of Zeus, the king of the gods, she was considered the queen of the gods. Her suitors are to discover what material the shoes are made of (tale type AaTh 621, "The Louseskin"). They served Hades, the god of the Underworld, and Persephone, the goddess of spring and queen of the Underworld. [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. Saddened with grief, she decides to enter the sea and a wave washes over her. Le projet du Dictionnaire de motifs et de contes-types tiologiques chez les slaves orientaux. Legend states that when the snake lets go of its . The snake appears in a carriage to get his bride and take her to his underwater realm. All of Medusa's siblings were monsters by birth and, even though she was not, she had the misfortune of being turned . Years pass, the fisherman's wife dies and Jegle runs the house while her father and brothers are away. Category:Mythological queens Queens regnant and Queens consort depicted in mythology . She was a daughter of Poseidon and a queen of Libya. [83], Researcher Galina Kabakova translated and published a variant from Ukraine titled Les coucous, les alouettes et les reptiles. In: . In: Kabakova, Galina. He also claimed that this narrative was "a common African variation on the Cupid and Psyche theme". "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"]. In: [VARVARA DOBROVOLSKAYA]. His hands were made up of 100 coiled snakes. Snakes in religion and ancient Greek mythology. The next morning, Mirzhan goes back to the shore to summon her husband, but she only sees a red tint in the river and her husband's head near the reeds. Medusa was the only Gorgon who was mortal; hence her slayer, Perseus, was able to kill her by cutting off her head. At first, she is hesitant and afraid, but relents and, after seeing that the snake can change into a handsome man, accepts him wholeheartedly. https://go.nebula.tv/extramythologyIn Lithuania, there's a story about how the trees got their names. Years into their marriage, the snake takes off the snakeskin to become a man, and they have three daughters. (2016). .. 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. 4. pp. 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. -: , 1971. pp. A large snake comes to the castle and guesses it right, then takes the princess with him as his bride to his abode in the sea. According to some. Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. Her sons change into water and she returns to her human family. The girl returns to the beach with an armed man and sings the song of invocation. Sira bakes flour breads with "hydromel" (mead) to take to a mysterious person. Finally, they take the non-fake bride, Egl, to the bottom of the sea lagoon to their king. The story can be subdivided into a number of sections each having parallels with motifs of other folk tales, yet a combination of them is unique. Meanwhile, the girls are bathing in the lake. The next morning, Zuhra says her goodbyes to her mother and goes back to the lake. Kostiukhin, E. A. 2015. 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. [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). Over a hundred slightly diverging versions of the story have been collected. Mythology In myths, legends, scripture and folklore, the category naga comprises all kinds of serpentine beings . 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. High quality Queen Of Snakes-inspired gifts and merchandise. 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. [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. The girl begins to cry, but a voice tells her it will return the clothes if she becomes the voice's wife. There's the mi. On the third year, the girl herself visits her family with her children, then returns to the water. 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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". 81-82. She was however raped by the sea god Poseidon in Athena's temple. 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. Ancient Egypt had a vast array of Gods and Goddesses. "Egle zalka lgava. [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. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological queens. The serpent emerges from the water and is killed by the man. [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. Shocked, upset, hesitant (how can she, a person, marry a grass snake? Jrv, Risto; Kaasik, Mairi; Toomeos-Orglaan, Krri. [17], The tale is one of the most researched in Lithuanian scholarship, under different approaches,[a] since "it represents the old Lithuanian worldview". 585 ff (trans. "Romeo Moses and Psyche Brunhild? In: . [72], In an Estonian tale published by folklorist Oskar Loorits with the title Die Schlangenbraut ("The Snake's Bride"), a mother consults with a wise man the fate of her daughters: her two elders shall marry later, but the youngest shall soon meet her intended mate, a snake. Both of them had twelve sons and three daughters. 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]. The snake makes the girl give her ring in exchange for the garments, and slithers back into the water. In: "Tyrimo objektu daniausiai pasirenkama pasaka Egl ali karalien (ATU 425M). To the princess's surprise, the snake becomes a man at night, and after a year she gives birth to a son. Riga: , 1969. pp. 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. Structural and semantic typology of the metamorphic ornithological plot of an East Slavic tale (SUS 425). Zuhra runs back home and tells her mother everything, and they fence the house, hoping it will keep the snake out. A little bird gives her a clue on how to fulfill both tasks and she tricks her husband. [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"). She buries it and curses her children to become a nightingale, a swallow and a starling, while herself becomes a dove. [36], Other interpretations focus on the intergroup marriage aspect of the story: Egle's family (brothers) would then represent male relatives fighting against a male from another family or clan to rescue their only sister, by torturing their nephews and niece (the fruits of this "spurious" union). [78], Professor Jack V. Haney stated that variants of type 425M appear "frequently recorded among the Russians", but "less frequently by Belarusians and Ukrainians". Three years later, the girl visits her family carrying her two children in tow, a son and a daughter. She leaves for the lake to do her laundry. 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. She then enchants her son to become a beetle, her daughter a dragonfly, and herself a cuckoo. Broken Bridge (From mid-Qing to late-Qing. They live in an underground kingdom called Naga-loka, or Patala-loka, which is filled with . renown and appeal went later into movies like hercules, etc. "" ": ". Also Kekrops, an early king of Athens who was depicted as being Closer to Earth by having the lower body of a snake. 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. " 425M ". In Egyptian mythology, the snake symbol represented royalty and divinity. . . . A similar assessment was made by professor Jack V. Haney, to whom the tale type appears "only around the south Baltic coast". Bellerophon provides a lesson in the proper relationship between a mortal hero and the gods. The uncles go to the beach, sing the song to summon the snake man and kill him. A water snake (a crested newt, in the original) announces it is a louseskin and marries the girl, taking her to its underwater palace. lekonyt, Jrat. , [Ryzhakova, Svetlana Igorevna] (2009). "Egl, die Knigin der Nattern. Crying, the girl becomes a birch near the shore, while her children become trees. One day, their daughters wish to visit their grandparents. A simplified version of the myth regards Manasa as the daughter of Lord Shiva. In: . Their sister goes to the lake shore and summons her husband. Moscow: , 2009. p. 49. Variants collected at East Lithuania show the transformation of the children into birds. [19], The tale has become the object of scholarly interest of ethnologist Jonas Balys[lt]. Afterwards, returning to the shore to get dressed, she found a serpent in her clothes. 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). He marries the elder in church. The next day, two snakes come to her house to fetch her to their master. Some time later, the princess and her child come to the seashore and try to call out to the snake husband, to no avail, so the princess turns into a Maserbirke (a type of birch tree) and her son into a duck. , no. Moskva: , 2009 [1934]. Hundreds of different wings were grafted onto his body. 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. There are several Aztec gods and goddesses of the underworld, but Mictlntcutli is the most prominent one. Finally, Egl herself turns into a spruce. and snake. [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 serpent is so large that it can wrap itself around the earth and bite its own tail. A snake slithers from beneath the well, goes to the king's court, and guesses the right answer. The snake father allows them to go back to land and teaches his wife a song to open a passage back to mainland. Perseus was the son of Danae, daughter of Acrisius the King of Argos, and Zeus. [122], Studies suggest that characters of the tale named several geographic features, such as toponyms and hydronyms of northwestern Russia, Pskov region. Throughout art history, snakes have been represented as women. In this tale, three sisters are bathing in the water. 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. -: , 1984. pp. [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. 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 Tuatha D Danann is a race of Celtic people with supernatural abilities. ), 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 medieval Lamia Lilith could shapeshift, particularly as a snake. 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 soon as the lacustrine king emerges, his brothers-in-law try to grab him, but his magic turns them into stones. Stryczyska-Hodyl, Ewa. The snakes escorted her out of the house and into her fiance's underwater palace. The snake-like head is a symbol of her cunning, a perversion of the matrifocal ancient goddess who the Greeks must destroy. 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. As soon as he emerges from the lake, the brothers jump out of the hiding spot and beat the husband to death. According to Greek myths, she was a very beautiful young woman who had many suitors. To this plea the mother tells him to bring the child to them. [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. She then curses her daughter to become a swallow, her son a nightingale and herself into a cuckoo. They live together and have three sons. 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. He then announces a contest to all prospective suitors: to guess the material of his daughter's shoes. In mythology, there are Naga Lokas in the netherworld - a whole society of not just snakes, but human beings who belong to the snake clan. ""Egl ali karalien": gyvybs ir mirties domenas" ["Egl the queen of serpents": domain of life and death]. Mictlan is the realm where Quetzalcoatl went and revived human civilizations. Thus, through no fault of her own, she incurred the wrath of Hera upon herself. Papa-Water gives her plenty of fish and teaches her a magic song to summon him and the fishes. A group of boys overhears the incantation and summons Papa-Water to kill him. ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. Zaltis agrees to let her visit his father-in-law, and he brings her to the surface world. The girl accepts, if only to get her garments back. muida also suggests that tales that lack family drama and friction might be the original forms of the story. [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). [118], Indian scholar Suniti Kumar Chatterji summarized the Lithuanian tale and stated that it "reminded" him of the Kashmiri story about Princess Himal and Nagrai (Ngaray), the Prince of Snakes. 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. When they leave to get her clothes, the youngest finds a snake on her garments, which promises to return them if she becomes his wife. () Tai naratyvas, kuris reprezentuoja senj lietuvi pasaulir ir kiekvienas jo tyrimas yra savaip vertingas." 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. " ". Three years passed and she returned to her mother's house with two little children, a boy and a girl. 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. 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. 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. The brothers go to the lake, summon the snake with the song and kill him as soon as he appears. The animal makes her promise to marry him in exchange for the dress. Sauka, Leonardas, sudarymas, rengjas [com, cre]. 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). "), a mother finds a louse in her house, fattens it and make a pair of shoes for her daughter. ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. Magic Tales That End Badly. . The priests of Heliopolis, followers of the sun god Re, developed the myth of Isis. They terrorized anyone who had the misfortune to see them. 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. In Greek and Roman mythology, the snake symbolizes a guardian spirit and was inscribed on many altars. The god of the sea has a handy dispensary of useful medicines, too, especially those which can guarantee a long life. Then after three days, thousands of grass snakes march into the yard of her parents' house. However, he is rescued by a mysterious man with greenish hair who introduces himself as Zaltis, the King of the Lakes. In: Stryczyska-Hodyl, Ewa. 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