Sounds on rue motif was attribute regarding Lithuanian folklore

In one single version of Lithuanian grazing tune, brand new mythopoetic image of rue is related for the photo from dew and you can a great cow swimming throughout the water: ‘Ralia rolia, Cow, rue,/ [. ] In which are you? / [. ] Exploit is swam put the newest seas,/ [. ] Mine was dew rubbed, / [. ] Mine a turf are ate, / [. ] Cow was grazed of the cowherds, / Ralia rolia, Cow’s milk products is drinked’. (KTR 120 (35), Ignalina region, Lithuania, recorded in 1987).

In another song, rue are of the Morning Superstar and you will a flower garden regarding lawn: “Oh Day Superstar / On the turf, ciuto, / Throughout the rose yard, ruto” (Slaviunas 1959: 365-367).

Brand new wreath symbolically is short for new vulva, in addition to horse’s trampling from good rue lawn, said in the music, try tantamount to using a good sexual intercourse that have a beneficial virgin (1935: 235-237)

A good wreath off rue is more away from a symbol nature, during real traditions rue was only that herb certainly one of several that will be merely woven to the a good bride’s wreath to help you decorate the top the crown, otherwise a tiny wreath from rue would-be connected to a great bride’s lead.

The new mythopoetic picture of rue (or an effective wreath from rue) during the folklore means a girl’s puberty, a great bride’s virginity, pure matrimonial love, maturity, plus the purpose in order to get married itself

A well-known version of matrimony tunes informs on the an excellent boy whom trips on the a horse that actions into a beneficial girl’s rue yard and you will tramples off rue; otherwise amГ©ricain Г©pouse NorvГ©gien dame good girl asks an excellent boy to return their own rue wreath, however, he refuses because he has got fed it to their horse. Or even in the fresh new Eastertide musical an effective north breeze punches a good rue wreath from an excellent virgin’s walk into the ocean; she cries piteously; then your girl asks three brothers – all the fishermen – in order to access their unique wreath throughout the liquids. They agree – however, consult something special reciprocally; the newest virgin promises to promote a golden ring toward very first, a cotton sash to a different, also to wed the third. Or a lad diving to pull a virgin’s rue wreath away of your own ocean starts to drown and you can attach brand new girl which have a promise to grow rues inside the thoughts towards his grave.

Considering J. Baldauskas, rues, good wreath out of rues, or a great rue lawn, are a symbol of good virgin by herself. Hence, when to provide a beneficial rue in order to an effective boy, good girl appears to provide by herself so you can him.

Broadening rues inside a great maiden’s rose yard symbolises the new carefree teens and you may appeal of a virgin. On the Lithuanian hen-group sounds, the life span away from a great maiden is usually in person weighed against an excellent rue, which in its own change is also associated with perfect and you can lily: ‘I sowed rue, / I sowed mint, / I sowed a lily, / I sowed my younger months / Including an eco-friendly rue // [. ] An effective rue plants [. ] / Additionally the boy is coming / Having a material scythe / The guy cuted off rue [. ] / The guy cuted off my young months, / For example a green rue [. ].’ (LTR 4312(11), Varanava area, Belarus, recorded from inside the 1971).

This new apparent mythologic record out of rue’s photo relating to the fresh Dragon plus the Hero’s battle and of brand new ritualistic conversion process of a beneficial maiden to the an excellent rue, reminding of the story book tale from their particular battle with an excellent dragon from the Baltic-Slavic people society, is told me of the T. Civyan (1989).

An alternate Lithuanian Advent-Christmas tune, ‘Oh, castle, castle, leliumoj’, portrays an identical mythologic problem. From inside the an effective greate manor (palace) not one person try walking, except for an earlier girl. She chose a beneficial rue and you can weaved an excellent wreath. Suddenly an incredibly old solitary guy contacted their own to the horseback. ‘Oh, I transfigured, leliumoj, / Towards the eco-friendly rue, leliumoj’, she claims. ‘A very old guy went immediately following myself that have a great picker the guy picked the new rue and simply their roots remain; I got changed into a-sea seafood and the old man went once myself that have a great spear; I had transformed into good variegated cuckoo therefore the old-man chased after myself that have a weapon; I’d transformed into a superstar on air, together with old-man chased immediately after me having a cloud; clouds showed up, rainfall dropped and you may drowned you to dated man’. (LTR 2618(1), Salcininkai area, Lithuania, registered from inside the 1948).