Eglė the Queen of Serpents
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Eglė the Queen of Serpents, alternatively Eglė the Queen of Grass Snakes, is a Lithuanian folk tale, first published was a translation by M. Jasevičius in 1837.
Eglė the Queen of Serpents, statue in Glebe Park, Canberra
Kazimieras Stabrauskas, Eglė žalčių karalienė (Eglė, Queen of the Serpents), 1900
Wooden statues of Egle and her children in Druskininkai "Forest Echo" museum
Žaltys
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A žaltys is a household spirit in Lithuanian mythology. It is a sacred animal of the sun goddess Saulė, and was considered a guardian of the home and a symbol of fertility. People used to keep it as a
Eglė the Queen of Serpents
…languages: Latvian egle 'spruce, fir', and Old Prussian addle 'spruce, fir'. One of the main characters in this fairy tale is a grass snake (Lithuanian: žaltys), but because it seems to inhabit the sea-adjacent lagoon (Lithuanian: marios), the word may actually refer either to a mythical aquatic snake or a…
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