Chernava
In Slavic Mythology, Chernava (Russian: Чернава) is Morskoy Tsar's (Sea Tsar) daughter, goddess and personification of the river with the same name[1][2][3]. She is a mermaid, the last from all 900 mermaids[1][2][3]. Her head and upper body are human, while the lower body is a fish's tail. Chernava is famous in the epic of Sadko, where she appears.
In «Sadko»
In the Sadko bylina Chernava appears as one of the 900 mermaids. She is beautiful, but not as beautiful as the other mermaids. When Morskoy Tsar offered Sadko a new bride, Sadko took Chernava and lay down beside her. At night Sadko did not lie with a girl. When Sadko was asleep, Chernava turned into a river, helping him to get into the human world. Sadko woke up on the shore of the river Chernava and rejoined his first wife.
In popular culture
Chernava Colles, a colles on Venus, are named after her.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fedorovich Alexander Hilferding 1873, p. 400.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dixon-Kennedy 1998, p. 52.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 James Bailey 2015.
Sources
- Fedorovich, Alexander Hilferding (1873). Onegsky byliny, recorded by Alexander Fedorovich Hilferding in the summer of 1871 (in русский). The Imperial Academy of Sciences. p. 400. ISBN 978-5-4460-3959-3. Search this book on
- Fedorovich, Alexander Hilferding (1873). Onegsky byliny, recorded by Alexander Fedorovich Hilferding in the summer of 1871 (in русский). The Imperial Academy of Sciences. p. 400. ISBN 978-5-4460-3959-3. Search this book on
- Dixon-Kennedy, Mike (1998). Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781576070635. Search this book on
- Dixon-Kennedy, Mike (1998). Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781576070635. Search this book on
- James Bailey (2015). An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1317476924. Search this book on
- James Bailey (2015). An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics. Routledge. ISBN 978-1317476924. Search this book on
External links
- Краткое содержание и история создания оперы Римского-Корсакова «Садко» на сайте «Belcanto.Ru» (in Russian)
- Bylina «Садков корабль стал на море» (in Russian)
- Bylina «Садко» (in Russian)
- Sadko Archived 2018-01-01 at the Wayback Machine the bylina
- Prose version
- Sadko as collected by Arthur Ransome in Old Peter's Russian Tales
- Sadko as collected by Arthur Ransome in Old Peter's Russian Tales as a librivox.org audiobook.
Category:Russian folklore characters Category:Characters in Bylina Category:Russian folklore Category:Slavic paganism
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