In one kind of Lithuanian grazing tune, new mythopoetic picture of rue is related with the photo from dew and an effective cow diving about ocean: ‘Ralia rolia, Cow, rue,/ [. ] In which are you presently? / [. ] Mine is swam threw brand new waters,/ [. ] Exploit is actually dew rubbed, / [. ] Mine a lawn is taken, / [. ] Cow is actually grazed of the cowherds, / Ralia rolia, Cow’s milk products is actually drinked’. (KTR 120 (35), Ignalina area, Lithuania, filed within the 1987).
An additional tune, rue was associated with the Morning Star and a flower yard on the turf: “Oh Day Star / Throughout the yard, ciuto, / In the rose garden, ruto” (Slaviunas 1959: 365-367).
The fresh wreath symbolically means new vulva, additionally the horse’s trampling away from a rue garden, stated in the sounds, is actually tantamount to having good sexual intercourse that have an effective virgin (1935: 235-237)
A good wreath away from rue is much more away from symbolic nature, throughout real community rue was just you to plant certainly numerous that could be merely woven into a beneficial bride’s wreath in order to embellish the top the fresh top, or a little wreath regarding rue could be connected with a great bride’s head.
The newest mythopoetic image of rue (or a good wreath from rue) during the folklore means an effective girl’s adolescence, a bride’s virginity, absolute matrimonial love, readiness, in addition to purpose so you’re able to wed alone
A popular kind of relationship songs says to regarding a great boy which tours to your a pony that procedures on a beneficial girl’s rue backyard and you may tramples down rue; or an effective girl requires a great boy to go back their unique rue wreath, but he declines because he’s got provided they to help you their horse. Or perhaps in the brand new Eastertide Bolivie agence mariГ©es musical a powerful north wind blows an excellent rue wreath regarding a good virgin’s head into the sea; she cries piteously; then your girl asks three brothers – all of the anglers – in order to access their unique wreath from the water. They consent – but demand something special reciprocally; this new virgin promises to offer a wonderful ring into the basic, a silk sash to a different, in order to marry the next. Or a lad diving to pull good virgin’s rue wreath away of one’s ocean actually starts to block and attach the new girl that have a promise to expand rues in his thoughts towards the his grave.
Based on J. Baldauskas, rues, a good wreath from rues, or a rue backyard, represent a great virgin herself. Thus, whenever presenting a rue so you can a boy, a beneficial girl seems to bring by herself to help you him.
Growing rues in an effective maiden’s rose yard symbolises brand new carefree youthfulness and you will appeal of a great virgin. On the Lithuanian hen-cluster music, living away from a great maiden is sometimes actually in contrast to a rue, which in its very own turn is even connected with mint and you can lily: ‘I sowed rue, / We sowed mint, / We sowed an excellent lily, / We sowed my more youthful months / Like a green rue // [. ] A rue flowers [. ] / And also the boy is originating / Having a steel scythe / He cuted down rue [. ] / He cuted off my younger days, / Particularly a green rue [. ].’ (LTR 4312(11), Varanava part, Belarus, filed inside the 1971).
This new apparent mythologic record out of rue’s picture relating to this new Dragon plus the Hero’s battle as well as the fresh ritualistic transformation out of an excellent maiden on an effective rue, reminding of your story book story out of their particular battle with a good dragon on Baltic-Slavic anyone culture, was explained because of the T. Civyan (1989).
Another type of Lithuanian Advent-Xmas tune, ‘Oh, palace, palace, leliumoj’, depicts an equivalent mythologic state. When you look at the a great greate manor (palace) not one person try taking walks, except for an early girl. She chosen an excellent rue and you may weaved an excellent wreath. Suddenly a very old single man reached their particular on the horseback. ‘Oh, We transfigured, leliumoj, / Into the green rue, leliumoj’, she claims. ‘A very old man ran once myself that have an excellent picker the guy chosen the rue and simply their roots are left; I got changed into a-sea fish and also the old-man ran immediately following me having an excellent spear; I’d transformed into an effective variegated cuckoo and old-man chased after myself having a weapon; I’d transformed into a star on the sky, while the old man chased after me personally that have an affect; clouds showed up, rains dropped and you can sunken one dated man’. (LTR 2618(1), Salcininkai region, Lithuania, submitted into the 1948).