[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. Zuhra accepts him and they marry. He is usually associated with the Tuatha D Danann. Enraged grass snakes return for a final time and threaten everyone with dry year, deluge and famine. Tom 2. She marries the 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). 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. Leningrad: , 1979. p. 132. Riga: , 1969. pp. She returns home. 170-171. [113], Africanist Sigrid Schmidt stated that in African tales, the secret song known only by heroine and husband and learned by others who use it to betray the couple "connects also with the East European tale of The Snake as Bridegroom". The third girl leaves the water and searches for her clothes, only to find a snake lying on top of them. 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. , . She is later taken to the lake. muida, Eugenijus. [20], The story has also been considered an oikotype, i.e., a form of the tale that is specific to a certain region (in this case, the Baltic geographical area). She is known by many names including Buto, Uatchit, Uadjet, and Edjo to name a few (McDevitt). 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. [102][103], According to scholarship, only one Belarusian variant of the tale contains the daughter's transformation into a frog. "Egl, die Knigin der Nattern. She does and takes her three children with her. , no. Danae The daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Queen Eurydice, . [77], Author August Lwis de Menar[de] collected a variant from the village of Voloitsa (Valyanitsy), on the Soikino peninsula. 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. A donkey is one of his symbols because he would ride a donkey instead of a chariot. [67], The tale type is reported from Southern Estonia, "especially in the Setu region". [129] In his tale, titled The Snake, the serpent lies on the smock of a girl named Masha. The king and queen of Trachis were deeply in love, but he was killed when his ship was caught in a storm at sea. After much insistence, the brothers learn of the secret command and go to the seashore. The snake promises to give it back if she marries it. Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. On the third year, the girl herself visits her family with her children, then returns to the water. A snake was likewise kept at the shrine of Apollo where it was tended to by a naked virgin. A dangerous, seductive, and beautiful woman, examples of the femme fatale abound in Greek myths. [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"). While some elements of the original mythology remained, the character's evolution did not . The two elders leave, while the youngest, named Lilla, tries to find her dress and sees a snake on it. 1998. [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. As the water engulfs her she is abducted by the water goblin. Dromantait-Stancikien, Aist. [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. In Chinese mythology, the woman-headed snake Nwa made the first humans. The girl, dismissing the snake's fanciful notion, agreed to anyway. The religious reception ties into this, as does the Freudian interpretation that . Her old mother seizes a sickle and "rushed into the country". In: This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 14:40. In: . [60], In Latvia the tale is known as alio nuotaka or Zalka lgava ("The Grass-Snake's Wife"). 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. Thus, through no fault of her own, she incurred the wrath of Hera upon herself. She then questions her sons if any of them told anything about the secret song, and the youngest answers that he did. . She explains she lives underwater and to return she only has to call on her husband's name: Ahmet. 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. 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. Their sister goes to the lake shore and summons her husband. Variants collected at East Lithuania show the transformation of the children into birds. [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 girl begins to cry, but a voice tells her it will return the clothes if she becomes the voice's wife. The next two years, her mother goes to the sea shore and asks about her daughter. 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. When conversing with her mother, the maiden unwittingly revealed her husband's name (Osip) and the incantation to summon him. (2014). [50], Other variations lie in the secret code the wife learns from her snake husband, and in the fate of the heroine and their children (sometimes all girls; sometimes all boys): they are either transformed into trees or into birds and disappear forever. 8 Tu Er ShenChinese Mythology. In 3 volumes]. " . "Egle zalka lgava. 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. " ( 425) ". 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). In fact, she was a queen. Masha marries the snake and returns from the sea to her mother's house with her two children. Ein Schlangenmrchen als identittsstiftende Erzhlung der Balten". [128], A literary telling is attributed to Russian author Leo Tolstoy. " ". Day in and day out Nw amused herself making mud figures and watching them come to life. The girl rushes back to the lake and, seeing her dead husband, curses her two children to become white swans and herself a gray cuckoo. [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. The Black Snake then appears and demands Zuhra as his bride. 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. 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. Her husband agrees to let her visit her family with her son, teaches her a spell and give her gold to gift her family. 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. One day, their daughters wish to visit their grandparents. Although the Furies appear in the Iliad as spirits who make sure things are. While Iphicles screamed in fear, Heracles grabbed one snake in . The snake crawls, it is cold, it comes silently and suddenly. His legs were the same. Finally, a frightened daughter tells them the grass snake summoning chant: All twelve brothers of Egl call ilvinas the Grass Snake from the sea and kill him using scythes. Her suitors are to discover what material the shoes are made of (tale type AaTh 621, "The Louseskin"). 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. [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? Many were a mix of animal and human characteristics, but none were more prolific and older than Wadjet. [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. 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. 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. Later, an old woman pays a visit to Jegle in search of her, and she turns into a woman, saying she brings news from Jegle's bridegroom, Zaltis, and bids the girl meets him by the edge of the lake the following day. 133-142. Meanwhile, the girls are bathing in the lake. "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 animal makes her promise to marry him in exchange for the dress. The snake takes her to his splendid underwater palace and reveals he must suffer some time under a curse: he is human under the snakeskin. The uncles go to the beach, summon the sea prince and kill him with spears. Sensing something wrong, she inquires her daughters about it: the youngest confesses. [97], Professor Jack Haney published another Russian variant, titled The Lake Beetle as Groom. In another myth, Hera sent two snakes to kill Heracles when he was still an infant. In Sumerian and Old-Babylonian literary tradition the snake was a wise creature and an granted miraculous herbs for eternal youth and immortality. Hephaestus (Greek god of metalworking, blacksmithing, craftsmanship): Hammer, anvil, fire, donkey, and volcano. The reptile promises to return her clothes if she agrees to marry her, to which she answers yes so she can get her clothes back. 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. ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. One day, the girl is sent to wash some clothes at the beach when a wave crashes and carries them away. [70], In an Estonian tale titled Ussi naine or Ussi naene ("The Snake's Wife"), the maiden bathes with her sisters by the sea, the snake refuses to return her clothes, the heroine gives birth to daughters that become different tree species at the end of the tale. She then curses her daughter to become a swallow, her son a nightingale and herself into a cuckoo. He marries the elder in church. In: [VARVARA DOBROVOLSKAYA]. 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. " ". When she returns, a black snake (" ", in the Russian translation) is lying on them and asks the girl to marry it. "Popularno motywu "O onie wa" w folklorze i literaturze Batw". " " [Mari Folk Tales]. As soon as the lacustrine king emerges, his brothers-in-law try to grab him, but his magic turns them into stones. Lithuania - Egl the Queen of Serpents In another time, long ago lived an old man and his wife. [15] In: Astramskait, Daiva (1993). Kostiukhin, E. A. (2016). It is the child of Loki and giant Angrboa. ". 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). Thereafter she turns her sons into strong trees - an oak, an ash and a birch. Later, Sira eats some food her mother prepared and a hen reveals it is made from the flesh of the serpent. After Sira leaves, Cumba returns home to tell her mother everything. He sets a riddle for any suitors: whoever guesses the right material of both mantles, shall marry the princess. Zobarskas, Stepas. "Ados Martinkus studija apie Egl". She summons her husband three times, but he does not respond. Her sons change into water and she returns to her human family. Years pass, the fisherman's wife dies and Jegle runs the house while her father and brothers are away. Lamia was a beautiful Libyan queen loved by Zeus. 81-82. Snakes in religion and ancient Greek mythology. The youngest being named Egle. "TENDENCIES OF THE FORMATION AND USAGE OF BALTIC NOUNS WITH SUFFIX -UT- IN LITHUANIA". Papa-Water gives her plenty of fish and teaches her a magic song to summon him and the fishes. "Buto is the Greek name for the town where her worship centered in the Nile Delta" (Babb . Zaltis agrees to let her visit his father-in-law, and he brings her to the surface world. In Egyptian mythology, the snake symbol represented royalty and divinity. She was a woman from the waist up with the tail of a serpent in place of legs. The woman takes a scythe and goes to the river to summon the reptile husband to 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. muida also suggests that tales that lack family drama and friction might be the original forms of the story. When the girl goes to the shore to return to her husband, she summons him and sees his head floating in the water. 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. Before she was cursed with her terrible new form, she was a powerful but relatively innocent woman. Hopi Indians and dan cing ritual with s nakes, American Indians al . They live together and have three sons. The old woman allows her daughters to join the others. [127], The tale also inspired a literary work by author Jkabs Jsmi (lv), in 1880, with the title Zalka lgava. 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. The girl is wreathing a flower garland that is swept off by the wind and falls on the sea. 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. 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. In this tale, three sisters are bathing in the water. [87], Bronisaw Sokalski published another Polish variant with the title Krl ww ("The Serpent King"). [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. [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). In Thailand, the Naga is a Pluto-analogue, an underworld deity associated with wealth. There are several Aztec gods and goddesses of the underworld, but Mictlntcutli is the most prominent one. Over a hundred slightly diverging versions of the plot have been collected. While Athena was a mythological figure, the Cult of Athena was very real. A bronze sculpture displaying Egl and the Serpent by Robertas Antinis has been constructed in Palanga Botanical Garden, Lithuania in 1960. Hera was the goddess of marriage, family, and childbirth and was often portrayed as a regal and influential figure. When he was still an infant, she sent snakes to attack him in his crib. The two elder brothers try to summon the snake brother-in-law, but he recognizes their voices do not belong to his wife. Lamia is a devastatingly beautiful monster, part woman and part serpent. Masha's mother is the one to kill the snake husband with a hatchet. 227 likes, 23 comments - (@graisonsfinejewellery) on Instagram: "**Personal collection at the moment . Snakes were associated with death and thunder which link with Ryujin's role as a bringer of rain and storms. Jegle goes to the lake to meet Zaltis, who is in human form, and takes her to his underwater palace. They are known as Nagas, and they played a very important role in shaping the consciousness of this nation and many other cultures. Moskva: , 1975. pp. [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. High quality Queen Of Snakes-inspired gifts and merchandise. However, ilvinas (perhaps intuitively being afraid to lose his wife or sensing his fate) denies her permission to leave the Grass Snake palace. The grandfather goes to the lake with a rifle, summons the snake and shoots him. The god of the sea has a handy dispensary of useful medicines, too, especially those which can guarantee a long life. The water goblin gets angry and thumps on the door, ordering the girl to go with him because his dinner has to be made. Her mother learns the secret command to summon the snake husband (called Isai Isanych) and kills the husband with a scythe. She made humans one at a time with clay. 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. 585 ff (trans. After the birth of their first child, the abducted wife sings it a lullaby about her past, which enrages the water goblin. In: Luven, Yvonne. Riga: , 1969. pp. 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. She returns home to her family with dresses and money to give her sisters, and to wait for her husband to fetch her. Jrmungandr is a famous sea creature from Norse mythology known as the Midgard Serpent or the World Serpent. [115], Professor Loreto Todd collected a West African (Cameroon) tale titled Bibaiyibaiyi an di papa-wata (Bibaiyibaiyi and the Papa-Water). and snake. In this tale, the heroine goes fishing and a creature named Papa-Water appears to her, intent on marrying her. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological queens. Like many beautiful demi goddesses in Greek mythology, she became the object of Zeus's affections. [104], In a tale from the Mari people titled " " ("Blind Love"), some sisters go to bathe in the water. However, a cadre of black snakes begins to slither out of the river to their house. The god had impregnated the princess in the form of a shower of gold after her father had locked her away upon learning from an oracle that he would be killed by his grandson. [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. -: , 1971. pp. [19], The tale has become the object of scholarly interest of ethnologist Jonas Balys[lt]. "Apuleius' Cupid Considered as a Lamia (Metamorphoses 5.17-18).". [100], Russian scholarship states that a tradition in Pskov holds that the daughter of the snake husband turns into a frog. 261-264. 90 likes, 5 comments - (@elizah_leigh_art_writer) on Instagram on January 15, 2021: ""What . Cumba follows her sister to a location near the water, and sees Sira chanting a song to summon an enchanted serpent from the waters. 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. 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. 818 Likes, 7 Comments - (@belarusian_monsters) on Instagram: "", . Stryczyska-Hodyl, Ewa. This happens again with the middle sister. 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. Hecate often carries a torch in her connection with the night. Hecate. She reaches home and spends some time there. 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. Barag, Lev. The snake father allows them to go back to land and teaches his wife a song to open a passage back to mainland. [88][c], In a Polish tale translated as Jegle and the King of the Lakes, a fisherman has two sons and goes to fish in the lake, when, suddenly, a storm begins to rage on the lake, threating to drown the man. Legends have it that she was rejected by her father Shiva and husband Jagatkru, and hated by her stepmother, Chandi, who scooped out one of Manasa's eyes. 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 is worshipped by many in India, particularly in Bengal . Medusa was the only Gorgon who was mortal; hence her slayer, Perseus, was able to kill her by cutting off her head. The girl and her mother board up the doors and windows and wait for a sudden storm to pass. 4, 2011, pp. This told that Isis was the daughter of the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut and the sister of the deities Osiris, Seth, and Nephthys.Married to Osiris, king of Egypt, Isis was a queen who supported her husband and taught the women of Egypt how to weave, bake, and brew beer. [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. Kabakova, Galina. 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. 2015. A snake slithers from beneath the well, goes to the king's court, and guesses the right answer. In: Kabakova, Galina. Mythology In myths, legends, scripture and folklore, the category naga comprises all kinds of serpentine beings . [90], The tale type is known in Russia as Zhena Uzha ("The Snake's Wife"),[91][92][93] or The Grass Snake's Wife. Three years pass, and the girl has been living in a splendid underwater castle, but begins to long for home. [15] As such, some versions avert the tragic ending by following the narrative of other tale types, like ATU 425A and ATU 425C. Jrv, Risto; Kaasik, Mairi; Toomeos-Orglaan, Krri. 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]. 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. In: Kayanidi, L.G. 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. 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. 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. [78], Professor Jack V. Haney stated that variants of type 425M appear "frequently recorded among the Russians", but "less frequently by Belarusians and Ukrainians". The man's wife goes to the beach and repeats the song to summon her husband, but he does not appear. 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 . [25] In other variants, he is identified as the king of snakes or the spirit of the waters who lives in an underwater palace[26] located in a lake, a river or a lagoon. She tries to summon her husband, but, realizing something is wrong, she finds the snake's body. Again the mother tells him to leave them alone, after which the goblin says their child is hungry and crying. 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 was however raped by the sea god Poseidon in Athena's temple. She agrees; the snake returns the garments and teaches her a command to summon him, Yaku. [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]"). Magic Tales That End Badly. Then after three days, thousands of grass snakes march into the yard of her parents' house. Sauka, Leonardas. Or Cupid the Serpent and the Morning Star?" ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. She buries it and curses her children to become a nightingale, a swallow and a starling, while herself becomes a dove. He also claimed that this narrative was "a common African variation on the Cupid and Psyche theme". . . ; . Tyr m Norse Mythology From Tr, the Old Norse form of the name of the Germanic god *Twaz, related to Indo-European *Dyws (see Zeus).In Norse mythology he was a god associated with war and justice, by some accounts a son of Odin.While the gods bound the great wolf Fenrir, Tyr placated the beast by placing his right hand in its mouth.After the binding was successful, Fenrir bit off Tyr's hand. Leningrad: , 1970. pp. [8] Hungarian scholar Endre Bjtar[hu] called it Egle (Silver Pine), the Snake Goddess and Egle (Silver Fir), the Snake Queen. The girl returns to the beach with an armed man and sings the song of invocation. The deepest part of the underworld, that is, and Mictlntcutli was in charge. "Pastangos velninti krin: pasakos "Egl ali karalien" periferiniai variantai" [Attempts at mitigating the narrative: peripheral variants of the tale "Egl - the queen of serpents"]. Mictlntcutli is the Aztec god of death, king of Mictlan. 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