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The Mahâbhâratam has shown us the three Vedic brothers, of whom the youngest has fallen into the well; it also presents to us, in the witch (asurî) Çarmishthâ, daughter of Vrishaparvan, king of the demons, and in the nymph Devayânî, daughter of Çukras, who cre
Read record →The sun and the aurora flee from each other; this spectacle has been represented in different ways by the popular imagination; and one of the most familiar is certainly that of a beautiful young girl who, running more quickly than the prince, escapes from him
Read record →he daughter of the sky, after attaining the third heaven, and accomplishing heroic undertakings to merit her.--The sleeper in the cup, the gem in the fish.--The Argonauts and Medea in Turan.--The Finnish Diana.--The Finnish thundering God, Kave Ukko.--The litt
Read record →A sacred cow, or at least a bitch which guards the cows (paçuvaiti), seems, besides a good fairy, to be, in the Vendiad itself,[274] the conductor of the souls across the bridge Cinvat, created by Ahura Mazda, to the kingdom of the blessed
Read record →In the Yaçna,[292] we find three men who, by their piety, win the favour of the god Haoma (Soma, the lunar god, the moon, the good magician, the good fairy)
Read record →This interesting mythical incident is a prefigurement of the loud whistle of the heroes and the monsters in fairy tales, which is brought to an end in a summary fashion, similar to that of the Persian legend; which also leads us to suppose that Thraetaona vanq
Read record →e mighty hero Rustem, whose weapon is a club surmounted with the head of a bull[305] or a horned mace (the hero is the bull, the thunderbolts are his horns), and whose horse is so powerful as by itself to fight and vanquish a lion while Rustem is asleep
Read record →The father, after hearing his son's defence in proof of his innocence, cannot believe the queen; and thereupon she devises another method for destroying the young Sijavush
Read record →escribed; and one of the most notable is, beyond a doubt, that of Isfendiar, who goes with his brother Bishutem to deliver his two sisters, imprisoned in a fortress by the Turanian king Ardshasp
Read record →They set out to search for the beautiful maiden who has fled by night from the house of her father
Read record →Of this union a tailed monster is born, having a man's body and a bull's head
Read record →In their search for it, they came across an enchanted castle, tenanted by a white bird, who offers to marry them
Read record →The young Vikramâdityas passes his infancy in the forests, where he learns all the arts, not excluding the art of thieving, taught him by the most experienced robbers, as well as every kind of mercantile fraud; by cheating, he becomes possessed of an enchanted
Read record →The following is from an Altaic saga, in the collection of Radloff:--Beyond the sea, on a rock surrounded with treasures, a dwarf girl is brought up, against whom aggressive warriors can prevail nothing
Read record →This child-hero occurs again in their dwarf-god (pikku mies), who, although, like the Hindoo Vishnus, he is but a span long, wields in his hand an axe the length of a man, with which he cuts down an oak-tree that no one had yet been able to bring to the ground
Read record →Alongside of the dwarf, by force of antithesis, there arises, even in the Finnic mythology, the idea of a giant, a Titan who amuses himself with uplifting and hurling rocks and mountains
Read record →But battles are not always going on in the heavens; even the wild animals of the gloomy forest become tame and rest themselves; music fills the soul with calm sentiments
Read record →in pieces; the cup of abundance, or the cornucopia (the Sampo); the golden cradle; the marvellous vessel in which the hero crosses the sea; the three sisters, of whom one gives black milk, one white, and one red (night, the alba or moon, and aurora); the invul
Read record →In the first story we have, in a hut in the forest, three sisters, of whom the youngest is the most beautiful
Read record →A variation of the story relating to the youngest sister and the dwarf is that of the girl seven years old, the wise girl (the aurora), in the fourth Esthonian tale, who, being persecuted by her step-mother, retires into the forest (the night)
Read record →He wanders through the forest; but when the sun arises from out the bosom of the dawn, he resolves to stay out of the house, and not to return to his persecutor (the young morning sun flees from the old and perverse night)
Read record →The third brother solves the enigma for the woman (the moon), who, in gratitude, gives him provisions for his travels
Read record →The thunder-god then becomes a child, and engages himself in the service of a fisherman, near a lake which the devil is accustomed to visit to steal the fishes
Read record →Evidently the monster-dwarf is a favourite subject of Esthonian tradition, and it often occurs in the Hindoo and in the German traditions, as well as in the Franco-Latin tradition of Charlemagne
Read record →In the thirteenth Esthonian story, the privileged character of the third brother is explained, as we are told that he is the son of a king, but was exchanged by a witch during his infancy for the child of a peasant
Read record →He therefore follows him; but on the way he lets a pea fall to the ground from time to time, in order to know the way back
Read record →In the twenty-second story we have once more the myth of the young pastoral hero; he is the son of a king
Read record →also the Tistrya with a whole eye of the Khorda Avesta of Spiegel, p
Read record →l.--Two bulls conduct the poor brother to riches.--The bull carries the fugitive home.--The bull is split in two, and is useful even after death.--Ivan and Helen, followed by the bear, flee upon the bull with their faces turned to the part whence the bear is l
Read record →One of the special characteristics of the bull and of the cow is their capacity of drinking
Read record →Ivan and Helen feel hungry; the bull tells them to cut him to pieces and eat him, but to preserve his bones, and to strike them together; from the bones of the bull, when struck, a dwarf, the height of a finger-nail, but with a beard a cubit long, comes out; h
Read record →y ears, and come out by the other, and all will be done."--In the Italian variety of this story,[357] the cow spins with her horns for the good maiden, whilst she combs the head of the old woman or the Madonna
Read record →of the sixth book of Afanassieff's collection, Ivan Tzarevic is presented with the apples which restore youth to him who eats them, by the sister of the sun, to whose abode he is lifted in the following manner: Ivan (the sun) has for his sister (no doubt half-
Read record →The two brothers, seeing that the third princess is more beautiful than the others, think that the youngest brother is reserving her for himself, and throw him into the water
Read record →rk, that the king of the Turks is, in the Slavonic tradition, as well as in that of Persia, the representative of the devil; the demon, when the hero approaches, smells the odour of human flesh in India, of Christian flesh in Western stories,[387] and of Russi
Read record →The legend of the hero Ivan has yet other interesting forms, reflective of the beautiful Vedic myth of the Açvinâu, who into their flying chariot-vessel also take up the unhappy
Read record →Under the name of Helen, or Little Helen, she is the protectress of her little brother, Ivanusca (Little John),[410] and his guide through the world; and when the boy, by the incantation of a witch, is transformed into a lamb or kid (in a story of the Canavese
Read record →In the Russian story,[413] after the bull has saved from the bear the fugitive brother and sister, Ivan Tzarevic and Helen the exceedingly beautiful (Prekraçna), they enter a brigand's house
Read record →Whilst Ivan is travelling with his sister towards the kingdom where all the people die[415] (that is, towards the night), a fairy gives him a towel, by shaking which a bridge may be thrown across a river--(is this bridge the milky way, the bridge or road to be
Read record →Anna then sends Ivan to take the cows to pasture
Read record →[379] In the Festival of the Epiphany, which is also a festival of the husband and wife, the good fairy is accustomed to bring to the child, husband, and wife, a boot or a stocking full of presents
Read record →mother of heroes.--The three brothers of Scandinavian and German mythology.--The warrior-cow.--The sacred cow of Ögwaldr burned upon the hero's tomb.--The rod-phallos used to strike the cow, as an augury of abundance and fecundity.--The head of the ox used as
Read record →n himself in all his splendour and strength; and that which the sun does every day he repeats on a larger scale once a year, rising again from the ice of winter through the tepidity of spring.) Of Buri, who is at birth strong, is born Bör, who has, by Bestla,
Read record →It is with the head of the most beautiful of the giant Hymir's oxen fastened to his hook that, in Snorri's Edda, the god Thor goes to fish up the immense serpent of Midgard from the bottom of the sea, and destroys it upon the sea-shore
Read record →ns of the magical towel of her brother, makes a bridge arise over the river, over which the monster-serpent, in the form of a handsome young man, crosses to take her; how the brother is sacrificed in the battle which he is obliged to fight against the monster,
Read record →It is the footprint which, in all the European traditions, betrays the beautiful maiden in her flight; and when the brigand Cacus carried off the oxen of Hercules, the hero, to recover them, searches for their footprints
Read record →In the same way I think the kidney-bean is evidently intended by the fruit of fruits, which, according to the Mahâbhâratam, the merciful man receives in exchange for the little black cow (krishnadhenukâ) given to the priest.[457] In the English fairy tale of "
Read record →We are already acquainted with the cloud-cow and the cloud-bull; the cloud thunders, the bull bellows and speaks
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