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In the first of the Esthonian stories, the cock that crows is a spy over the old woman.[429] In the third Esthonian story, a woman gives her husband three eggs of a black hen to eat in order to obtain three dwarf heroes
Read record →which, accompanied sometimes by songs and proverbs, so many popular customs, mythologically in accordance, are current in the various countries of Europe, celebrate the resurrection of the celestial egg, a symbol of abundance,[432] the sun of spring
Read record →ad; Bribus as Indras, and as a bird.--Brahman upon the hansâs.--The sun as a golden duck.--The betrothed wife as a duck.--The arrows of Râmas as hansâs.--Kabandhas drawn by hansâs.--The hansâs as love messengers.--The geese-swans and the young hero in Russian
Read record →hite ones served for the more poetical images of mythology, the red and the dark ones offered aspects now benignant, now malignant, alluring the hero now to his ruin, and now, instead, to good fortune
Read record →In the chapter which treats of the swallow, we saw the beautiful maiden upon the tree at the fountain changed into a swallow by the witch's enchantment; numerous other legends, instead of the transformation into a swallow, give us that into a dove.[438] The st
Read record →king to his brother Milluccio a horse which, as soon as it is ridden, will break his neck, and that he who should warn Milluccio of this, or not take the horse to him, would turn, to marble; and finally, it says that Gennariello is taking to his brother a wife
Read record →In the twenty-second Esthonian story, when the young prince-lover arrives, two doves perch upon the rose-bush, in which the beautiful daughter of the gardener is enclosed by enchantment; the beautiful maiden comes out of the rose-bush, and, showing the half of
Read record →The duck, in Russian stories, deposits its egg upon the robber's head; thus Indras takes their treasures off the head of the Panayas
Read record →In the fourth story of the first book of Afanassieff, little Johnny (Ivasco) is upon an oak-tree, which the witch is gnawing, to possess herself of him; three flights of geese-swans pass one after the other; Johnny begs for their assistance; the first flight r
Read record →But if geese, ducks, and swans sometimes do evil, or are sometimes diabolical forms assumed by the witch's deceit, they generally produce good and conduct to good
Read record →o have the duck cooked; but the two sons are before him; and whilst their mother is at mass, one eats the head and the other the heart of the duck, and meet with the adventures which are related in the chapter on the Horse.[459] The golden egg of the duck caus
Read record →In the Russian story, the fairy maidens (in German traditions, the Virgin Mary too) sometimes take, in order to cross the waters, the form of geese-swans; thus in the Eddas, three Valkyries spin on the shores of the lake, with their swan forms close behind the
Read record →When he comes on the swan to meet the beautiful maiden, no one must ask him whence he came
Read record →A gentleman had twelve sons and one daughter, who had, by enchantment, been metamorphosed into an eagle, and was kept in a cage
Read record →There was once a king who had a handsome son, enamoured of a beautiful princess
Read record →so yellow and red, whence the appellation haris is always applicable to them).[469] The moon, on account of its colour, is now a tree (a green one), now an apple-tree with golden branches and apples, now a parrot (golden or green, and luminous)
Read record →r Ferraro, which is related in the Monferrato, and of which I have also heard, in my childhood, a variation at Turin:--A king, going to the wars, and fearing that another king, who is his rival, will profit by his absence to seduce his wife, places by her side
Read record →akrâvatâras and the fisher.--The stone and the fish.--Adrikâ, Girikâ, the mother of fishes.--The matsyâs as a nation.--Çaradvat.--Pradyumnas.--Guhas.--The fishes laugh.--The fish guards the white haoma.--The water of the fish drunk by the cook.--The devil stea
Read record →The legend of the nymph Adrikâ (from the word adris, which means a stone, a rock, a mountain, or a cloud) presents the same analogy between the stone-cloud, that is, the stone in the waters, and the fish
Read record →We already know that phallical images and demoniacal ones sometimes correspond; hence, in the ninth Esthonian story, the devil steals the fishes from the fishermen; hence, in the Eddas, the brigand Loki now assumes the form of a salmon, and now catches the pik
Read record →We are already acquainted with the sea-monster which, in the Râmâyanam (like the siren fish), allures from the sea the shadow of Hanumant, and can make itself now small, now large; we have seen the dwarf Andvarri of the Eddas, who hides himself in the form of
Read record →When the night is with the moon, instead of swallowing the hero, the bull-moon or fish-moon carries him or serves as a bridge for him
Read record →The judges call the perch, the eel-pout, and the herring to give witness
Read record →The little sea-urchin (and the dwarf Vishnus and the dolphin are equivalent to it, the word çinçumâras being equivocal in Sanskrit) in the Rigvedas draws the chariot of riches; in the Eddas, a dwarf in the form of a pike (in Greek lükios, in Latin lucius) watc
Read record →[478] Indras, as a warlike god, does not know fear, or rather, he kills fear (the hymn says, "Aher yâtâram kam apaçya indra hridi yat te gaghnuso bhîr agacchat"; Rigv. i
Read record →We all know the myth of Hêraklês, who, when combatting the hydra of Lerne, was caught and drawn back by the crab, which Hêra, therefore, transformed into the celestial constellation of the crab
Read record →We have already seen the nightingale and the stag as images representing the moon; here we also find a crab as a lunar figure
Read record →The phallical Indras carries on his shoulders a mountain of wood, which evidently corresponds to the mandaras or kaça-pas, and, on the way, offends the dwarf hermits born of the hairs of the body of Brahman, that is, the hairs themselves; to this Kaçyapas, the
Read record →But the diabolical form of a frog is sometimes assumed by the beautiful maiden (or else by the handsome youth) as the effect of a malediction or an enchantment
Read record →the king's son, who little loves thee, if he love thee not, will love thee when he has thee for his wife.) The prince weds the toad, which is immediately transformed into a beautiful maiden
Read record →I have observed above that the toad's place is sometimes taken in popular tales by the horned lizard; the lizard also represents the demoniacal shape, the shape of a witch
Read record →It is, moreover, believed that the green lizard, if caught and put in a vase full of oil, will produce the oil of a ramarro, which is said to be good against wounds and poisons
Read record →In an unpublished Tuscan story, related to me by Uliva Selvi at Antignano near Leghorn, instead of the toad we have a magician of frightful aspect
Read record →The feet and the tail; the serpent is the favourite form of the demon; the devil is betrayed by his tail.--The serpent and the waters; the dragon as the keeper back of the waters, and as the guardian of the treasures; the devil evoked from the waters.--The ott
Read record →The serpent-devil draws to himself every beautiful thing, now to swallow them, now to preserve and guard them like a miser
Read record →The serpent, the first-born of the serpents, was lying in the mountain;[532] he was lying under his mother,[533] he was keeping the waters, his wives, shut up, as a miser his treasure, or a robber the stolen cows;[534] a miser or rich robber[535] resembling a
Read record →The gods bandage his eyes; the serpent sings a verse in praise of the somas; the gods, as an antidote, sing several verses, and counteract the effect of the serpent's verse
Read record →Râmas cuts one of his arms off, and the arm cut off (or the serpent, or the cloud cut off, like the stick of fairy tales which beats of itself) continues to massacre the monkeys
Read record →species; it devours nations, but preserves the regenerative kings; it poisons plants, and throws men into deep sleep, but it gives new strength in its occult domain to the sun, who gives new life to the world every morning and every spring
Read record →From the gloomy serpent of night, the tenebrous serpent of winter, even the nocturnal and wintry heavens illumined by the moon, and from the white moon, emerges the diurnal sun, the sun of spring, the day and the warm and luminous season
Read record →Ahuramazda and Anhromainyu, who occupy the first place as the creators of the world, are also two males in opposition to one another
Read record →The tree rises up to heaven, and its root goes down to hell, where Seth sees the soul of his brother Abel
Read record →] A variety of the Hindoo legend of the hawk (Indras), of the dove (Agnis), and of King Çivis, who, to save the dove from the hawk, his guest, gives some of his own flesh to the hawk to eat
Read record →[590] These marvels are always three, as the apples are three, the beautiful girls three, the enchanted palaces in the kingdom of the serpents which they inhabit three (cfr
Read record →and the shadows of the mythological monsters rise again before me, and occupy my fearful thoughts
Read record →Certainly, I am far from believing that this was the intention of the myth
Read record →Aurora, the cow, process of re-creating, i
Read record →the fire-god Agnis, 10; his fields of battle, 12, 15; great exploits of, 12; threefold victory, 13, 14; weapons of, 14; companion of Somas, 18, 19; the triple, 20; moments of, 20, 23; special function, 27; relations to the aurora, 27; and the blind lame one, 3
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