In one sort of Lithuanian grazing tune, the new mythopoetic image of rue is related into images off dew and you may a great cow diving in the water: ‘Ralia rolia, Cow, rue,/ [. ] In which have you been? / [. ] Mine are swam put the latest waters,/ [. ] Exploit is actually dew rubbed, / [. ] Exploit a turf are ate, / [. ] Cow is actually grazed by cowherds, / Ralia rolia, Cow’s milk products are drinked’. (KTR 120 (35), Ignalina area, Lithuania, filed in 1987).

An additional tune, rue is from the Day Star and a rose yard regarding the turf: “Oh Morning Superstar / Regarding the turf, ciuto, / Regarding the rose site de rencontres pour rencontrer des femmes Japonais backyard, ruto” (Slaviunas 1959: 365-367).

The fresh wreath symbolically represents new vulva, and the horse’s trampling of a great rue yard, said throughout the songs, was tantamount to presenting a sexual intercourse having a good virgin (1935: 235-237)

A great wreath from rue is far more from a symbol character, through the real traditions rue was just one extract one of multiple that might be simply woven on the a great bride’s wreath to help you embellish the top of brand new top, or a small wreath from rue is attached to good bride’s head.

This new mythopoetic image of rue (otherwise a good wreath from rue) inside folklore signifies a great girl’s puberty, a bride’s virginity, sheer matrimonial like, maturity, and also the intention so you can get married in itself

A well-known types of relationship sounds tells regarding the an effective boy whom tours on a horse that steps for the good girl’s rue backyard and you can tramples down rue; or a good girl requires a good boy to return their unique rue wreath, but the guy refuses given that they have given it in order to their horse. Or even in brand new Eastertide audio a powerful north snap punches a beneficial rue wreath off a beneficial virgin’s head into the ocean; she cries piteously; then girl requires about three brothers – all the fishermen – so you can retrieve their wreath from the liquid. They concur – however, consult a gift in exchange; the newest virgin promises to bring a golden band on the earliest, a silk sash to another, in order to get married the next. Otherwise a lad diving to pull a beneficial virgin’s rue wreath out of your own water begins to drown and attach the fresh new girl which have a vow to expand rues in his memories into their grave.

Based on J. Baldauskas, rues, an excellent wreath away from rues, or a good rue garden, represent a virgin herself. For this reason, whenever to present an excellent rue to help you a great boy, an effective girl generally seems to offer by herself to help you him.

Increasing rues when you look at the a beneficial maiden’s rose backyard symbolises the latest carefree youngsters and you may attractiveness of a great virgin. Throughout the Lithuanian hen-team music, living off a good maiden is commonly personally in contrast to an effective rue, which in its change is also associated with mint and you can lily: ‘I sowed rue, / I sowed perfect, / I sowed an effective lily, / I sowed my younger days / Like a green rue // [. ] A great rue flowers [. ] / And also the boy is coming / That have a material scythe / The guy cuted off rue [. ] / The guy cuted off my personal young days, / Such as a green rue [. ].’ (LTR 4312(11), Varanava area, Belarus, recorded inside the 1971).

The obvious mythologic record from rue’s visualize relating to the fresh Dragon additionally the Hero’s battle and of the latest ritualistic transformation out-of an effective maiden for the a rue, reminding of the fairy tale story off their struggle with a great dragon from the Baltic-Slavic everyone culture, is explained by the T. Civyan (1989).

An alternative Lithuanian Introduction-Xmas song, ‘Oh, palace, castle, leliumoj’, depicts an equivalent mythologic condition. Inside a greate manor (palace) no body is actually taking walks, with the exception of a young girl. She chosen an excellent rue and you can weaved a wreath. All of a sudden an extremely dated unmarried man approached their particular on horseback. ‘Oh, I transfigured, leliumoj, / Into the environmentally friendly rue, leliumoj’, she states. ‘A earliest pens people went after me having a beneficial picker the guy chose this new rue and just the origins remain; I got changed into a sea seafood as well as the old-man ran after myself with a beneficial spear; I had transformed into an effective variegated cuckoo additionally the old man chased once me personally with a weapon; I got changed into a star on the heavens, while the old man chased immediately after me personally with a cloud; clouds appeared, rainfall decrease and you will sunken that old man’. (LTR 2618(1), Salcininkai region, Lithuania, recorded within the 1948).