She guesses correctly and takes the girl as daughter-in-law and wife for her son. Egl almost forgets about her homeland, but one day, after being questioned by her oldest son uolas about her parents, she decides to visit her home. URL: "Ji pagrstai gali bti laikoma balt lietuvi ir latvi pasaka, nes daugiausia jos variant urayta Lietuvoje ir Latvijoje." [59], In a Lithuanian variant, Das Mdchen und die Schlange ("The Girl and the Snake"), a widow lives with her daughter in a house at the beach. (2020). "Buto is the Greek name for the town where her worship centered in the Nile Delta" (Babb . [8] Hungarian scholar Endre Bjtar[hu] called it Egle (Silver Pine), the Snake Goddess and Egle (Silver Fir), the Snake Queen. The serpent is so large that it can wrap itself around the earth and bite its own tail. [100], Russian scholarship states that a tradition in Pskov holds that the daughter of the snake husband turns into a frog. Zobarskas, Stepas. One of the main characters in this fairy tale is a grass snake (Lithuanian: altys), 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 European eel (Anguilla anguilla). 170-171. . The snake wraps itself around Zuhra, they both dive into the lake and swim until they reach a large gate. Kostiukhin, E. A. After they bathe and play in the water, the maidens return to fetch their clothes, when one of them notices there is a reptile lying on theirs. They are known as Nagas, and they played a very important role in shaping the consciousness of this nation and many other cultures. Three years later, the girl visits her family carrying her two children in tow, a son and a daughter. Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. In Hindu mythology, snakes have been depicted as both powerful and feared creatures, often associated with divinity, and are believed to have a significant impact on humans. [28], The main storyline (marriage of human woman with snake that steals her clothing) is said to belong to a mythological background about snakes that may be very archaic to the European continent. She is known by many names including Buto, Uatchit, Uadjet, and Edjo to name a few (McDevitt). She is worshipped by many in India, particularly in Bengal . .. Thereafter she turns her sons into strong trees - an oak, an ash and a birch. After she gets an advice from the sorceress (a potential referral to the Lady of the Sea or Lady of the Cave) and succeeds in completing these three tasks, ilvinas reluctantly lets Egl and the children go. A group of boys overhears the incantation and summons Papa-Water to kill him. Leningrad: , 1970. pp. In another myth, Hera sent two snakes to kill Heracles when he was still an infant. Riga: , 1969. pp. Ein Schlangenmrchen als identittsstiftende Erzhlung der Balten". In Greek and Roman mythology, the snake symbolizes a guardian spirit and was inscribed on many altars. The girl returns home that same evening and the reptile comes to take his bride. 261-264. While some elements of the original mythology remained, the character's evolution did not . The Nagas ( Sanskrit: , romanized : Nga) [1] are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half- serpent beings that reside in the netherworld ( Patala ), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art. In the temple of Athena in Athens, a snake held in a cage was believed to be the reincarnation of Erichthonius, an early king in ancient Greece. [16], According to Stith Thompson's reworked folktale classification, tale type AaTh 425M involves a magical formula or incantation to summon the serpent husband. Its main head supported 100 snake heads, which made different animal noises. Rules over: Marriage, women, birth and the heavens; Title: Queen of Heaven; Gender: Female; Symbols: Jewelled crown, sceptre, pomegranate She is later taken to the lake. [79], Galina Kabakova notes that, among the East Slavic populations, the tale type ATU 425M assumes the features of an etiological tale:[80] as remarked by professor Natalie Kononenko, it shows the origins of the cuckoo, the lark and the nightingale. Its liaison with a human woman, which produces children, violates the boundaries between the world of land and the world of water[33][34] and, by killing the snake, the natural order (that is, separation between land and water) can be restored. All of Medusa's siblings were monsters by birth and, even though she was not, she had the misfortune of being turned . "Ukeikimai, magikos formuls ir vard problema balt "ali karaliens" variantuose" [Spells, magic formulas and the problem of names in the Baltic variants of the tale "The queen of grass-snakes"]. Zaltis agrees to let her visit his father-in-law, and he brings her to the surface world. "Ados Martinkus studija apie Egl". Hundreds of different wings were grafted onto his body. A feathered serpent of Aztec myth, Quetzalcoatl is believed to be the creator of man, and the dividing deity between the land and the sky. [61] According to the Latvian Folktale Catalogue, the heroine curses her sons to become trees and herself to become a cuckoo. "Lietuvi pasak tyrim imtmetis: nuo tradicins komparatyvistikos iki iuolaikini metod" [Hundred years of the Lithuanian folktale research: from the traditional comparativism to the modern methods]. [31], According to Bernard Sergent, "humananimal marriage is an union that is too remote as incest is a too close one. [71], In an Estonian tale translated into Hungarian as A kirlylny bocskora, a king prepares two mantles, one made from louseskin, the other from flea skin. [19], The tale has become the object of scholarly interest of ethnologist Jonas Balys[lt]. Papa-Water gives her plenty of fish and teaches her a magic song to summon him and the fishes. Bagoinas, Saulis. . He explains she disenchanted him and he will make her his wife as the "Queen of the Seas" ("du wirst fortan Knigin des Meeres sein"), in his palace in the middle of the sea. However, the princess's younger brother mimics her voice and tricks the snake into coming out of the water, only to be beheaded by the princess's brothers. In: . She then questions her sons if any of them told anything about the secret song, and the youngest answers that he did. Three years pass, and the snake's human wife has given birth to a boy and a girl. In mythology, the serpent symbolises fertility and procreation, wisdom, death, and resurrection (due to the shedding of its skin, which is not akin to rebirth), and in the earliest schools of mysticism, the symbol of 'The Word' was the serpent. That evening, a giant snake comes out of the sea and knocks at the girl's door. Angry with Zeus ' interest for her, the goddess showed no mercy towards Lamia: every time the girl gave birth to a child, Hera either murdered it or made Lamia kill it herself. That rivers arise in lakes, pools or in caves or spring wells up on mountain sides has made such sites the classical typical den of the legendary dragons of myth. " ". In Egyptian mythology, the snake symbol represented royalty and divinity. [117], In another West African folktale from the Mandinga people, A noiva da serpente ("The Serpent's Bride"), there lived two sisters, Cumba and Sira. Years pass, and the girl is missing life on the land. The snake father allows them to go back to land and teaches his wife a song to open a passage back to mainland. At first, she is hesitant and afraid, but relents and, after seeing that the snake can change into a handsome man, accepts him wholeheartedly. (2016). Suddenly, the girl's mother asks her how she can summon her reptile husband, and the girl reveals the secret. [75], Tale type 425M is known in Finland as Uuza Vedenkuningas ("Uuza the King of Waters"), according to the Finnish Folktale Catalogue, established by scholar Pirkko-Liisa Rausmaa. She returns home to her family with dresses and money to give her sisters, and to wait for her husband to fetch her. In Egyptian mythology, the snake was a personification of the goddess Kebechet, who personified the purification of water in the funeral cult, and the snake was a protector of the pharaohs after death. Nagas and Lamias The woman takes a scythe and goes to the river to summon the reptile husband to kill him. Pasaka par zalkti baltu identitti veidojos ststs" [Spruce the Bride of the Grass Snake. SINKEVIIT, Daiva. [115], Professor Loreto Todd collected a West African (Cameroon) tale titled Bibaiyibaiyi an di papa-wata (Bibaiyibaiyi and the Papa-Water). " (425 ) " [HISTORY OF RECORDING OF FOLKTALE GRASS-SNAKE AS A HUSBAND (BATHING GIRLS GARMENT KEPT UNTIL PROMISE OF MARRIAGE) (425 M) AMONG RUSSIANS]. [95], According to Russian scholarship, the tale type 425M sometimes merges with ATU 703, "The Snow-Maiden" in many Russian variants. The snake-like head is a symbol of her cunning, a perversion of the matrifocal ancient goddess who the Greeks must destroy. They come to claim Egl as their master's bride and their future queen, but are tricked by her relatives each time. Artifacts and carvings made in the image of the snake have been found all across the world. [65][66], In a Latvian tale from Ansis Lerhis-Pukaitis's (lv) collection, from Jelgava, translated into Hungarian with the title Hogyan lett a kakukk? online streamer | 3.6K views, 269 likes, 139 loves, 419 comments, 27 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Irina Allyson: Hoppy Easter! Later, an old woman pays a visit to Jegle in search of her, and she turns into a woman, saying she brings news from Jegle's bridegroom, Zaltis, and bids the girl meets him by the edge of the lake the following day. FACTS ABOUT HERA. ""Egl ali karalien": gyvybs ir mirties domenas" ["Egl the queen of serpents": domain of life and death]. Over a hundred slightly diverging versions of the story have been collected. .. The fisherman is thankful for the rescue, and asks what he can offer in return; Zaltis says he wants the fisherman's most valuable thing, and promises to grant him fish for hiw whole life. Also Kekrops, an early king of Athens who was depicted as being Closer to Earth by having the lower body of a snake. [98] The tale was originally collected by Russian philologist Dimitry M. Balashov[ru] from informant Elisaveta Ivanovna Sidorova, from Tersky region, in the White Sea, with the title " " ("Lake Bettle - Groom"). . . ; . Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. Scythian She-Dragon. A large snake comes to the castle and guesses it right, then takes the princess with him as his bride to his abode in the sea. "Veikj ir viet vardai, j kaita Egls pasakoje" [Names of characters and places and their change in the fairy tale "The snake as bridegroom"]. A relatively minor deity of Chinese mythology, Tu Er Shenor Hu Tianbao, as he was known when he was mortalis the god of homosexual love and marriage. " ". [51][52][53] Some stories mention that the king of the grass snakes was wearing an amber crown or that he lived in an amber palace - a motif that recalls another Baltic fairy tale: Jrat and Kastytis. The girl's brothers torture their nephews in the bath house and they tell their uncles the secret command. As the story continues, the girl's relatives imitate her voice to draw out the fish and kill it. To her surprise, the serpent spoke to her in a man's voice and demanded that she promise to become his wife for the return of her clothes. A young maiden named Egl discovers a grass snake in the sleeve of her blouse after bathing with her two sisters. 145-146. The girl becomes a weeping birch and her son a tree branch. [Latvian Folk Tales]. Her sons change into water and she returns to her human family. known as slayer . On the third year, the girl herself visits her family with her children, then returns to the water. Both of them had twelve sons and three daughters. She leaves for the lake to do her laundry. [30] Under this lens, the grass snake could be seen as a totemic ancestor, akin to the swan maiden, who plays the role of ancestress of many peoples. [1] The tale features not only humanreptile shapeshifting, but irreversible humantree shapeshifting as well. Her family tries to trick him twice, first with a goose, then with a she-goat. and snake. The youngest child reveals how they reach their house: their mother goes to the edge of a lake, sings a song and the snake father appears in a boat. It is also a noun meaning tree species spruce (Latin: Picea) and fir,[4] with cognates in other Baltic languages: Latvian egle 'spruce, fir', and Old Prussian addle 'spruce, fir'.[5]. Jegle is happy to visit her father, but her brothers secretly decide to take her back from the King of the Lakes. They are a strong, handsome species who can assume either wholly human or wholly serpentine form and are potentially dangerous but often beneficial to humans. Many were a mix of animal and human characteristics, but none were more prolific and older than Wadjet. renown and appeal went later into movies like hercules, etc. In: . In this variant, The Water Snake or Ujak, an old woman's daughter went to bathe with other girls in the pond. There are several Aztec gods and goddesses of the underworld, but Mictlntcutli is the most prominent one. When they finished bathing, a snake appeared and hid the maiden's shift in exchange for her hand in marriage. 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ANTROJE PUSJE, Wdrwki po guberni augustowskiej w celu naukowym odbyte, The Tricolour Sun: Latvian Lyrics in English Versions, an Essay on Latvian Poetry, and Critical Commentaries, Le mari-couleuvre ou Pourquoi le coucou coucoule, "IF YOU KILL A SNAKE THE SUN WILL CRY". In: muida, Eugenijus. , no. [73], In a tale from the Lutsi Estonians collected by linguist Oskar Kallas with the name Ussiks niutud mees ("The Man Enchanted to be a Snake"), a couple prays for a son, and God gives them a snake. [15] As such, some versions avert the tragic ending by following the narrative of other tale types, like ATU 425A and ATU 425C. However, ilvinas (perhaps intuitively being afraid to lose his wife or sensing his fate) denies her permission to leave the Grass Snake palace. A woman appears from the lake, becomes an old man and enters the court. She reaches home and spends some time there. A simplified version of the myth regards Manasa as the daughter of Lord Shiva. The story has also inspired the creation of literary tales. Tom 2. Three years pass, and the girl has been living in a splendid underwater castle, but begins to long for home. Dragons also represent the dark reaches of where we have come from - the sources of humanity's allegorical river, for which the snake has often been used as a metaphor. In: lekonyt, Jrat. [107], Tale type ATU 425M is reported in the Bulgarian Folktale Catalogue with the name " "[108] or "Die Frau des Drachen verflucht ihre Kinder"[109] ("The Wife of the Dragon curses her children"): a dragon sits on the girl's garments in exchange for marrying her; they wed and move to his palace at the bottom of the sea, where she gives birth to two children; the girl visits her family with her children and her daughter betrays the dragon's secret, which leads to him being killed by his brothers-in-law; the girl then curses her children to become trees. Notes for mythology about gods, goddesses, and demi-gods demi gods hercules (herakles or heracles) description achilles perseus orpheus helen best known for his . naga, (Sanskrit: "serpent") in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, a member of a class of mythical semidivine beings, half human and half cobra. He also teaches her a command to summon him when she returns, and makes her promise to keep it a secret. [90], The tale type is known in Russia as Zhena Uzha ("The Snake's Wife"),[91][92][93] or The Grass Snake's Wife. , no. Hecate often carries a torch in her connection with the night. When she returns, a black snake (" ", in the Russian translation) is lying on them and asks the girl to marry it. As soon as he emerges from the lake, the brothers jump out of the hiding spot and beat the husband to death. She likes to spend her days dipping her feet in water, and a large green fish plays between her feet. Perseus was the son of Danae, daughter of Acrisius the King of Argos, and Zeus. Variants collected at East Lithuania show the transformation of the children into birds. 585 ff (trans. He also claimed that this narrative was "a common African variation on the Cupid and Psyche theme". First, his sons are threatened and beaten with the scourge by their uncles, in attempt to make them disclose how to summon their father; however, they remain silent and do not betray him. The sea prince tells he will help him, on the condition that the fisherman gives him the first thing that is on the shore (which happens to be the fisherman's only daughter). The snakes take Mirzhan and disappear with her beneath the waters, as her mother grieves for her lost daughter. However, when the time comes, the sky darkens and a retinue of snakes, jinns and peris come to Zuhra's house in their master's name. ". Some time later, the princess takes her daughters and prepares to return home by summoning her snake husband, the boat appears dirtied with her husband's blood. Zuhra and her children go back to the surface world and visit the grandparents. Mictlntcutli is the Aztec god of death, king of Mictlan. According to some. When the girl goes to the shore to return to her husband, she summons him and sees his head floating in the water. In: Kayanidi, L.G. Lamia is a devastatingly beautiful monster, part woman and part serpent. She returns home. In: Behr-Glinka, Andrei I. ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. The old woman allows her daughters to join the others. To this plea the mother tells him to bring the child to them. the dance, live snakes were handled and at the end of the dance the snakes were released into the fields to guarantee good crops. Over a hundred slightly diverging versions of the plot have been collected. She is the sister of Vasuki, king of Nagas and wife of sage Jagatkaru. Human suitors test their skills. #1 Late Night. The girl rushes back to the lake and, seeing her dead husband, curses her two children to become white swans and herself a gray cuckoo. Masha's mother is the one to kill the snake husband with a hatchet. Instead of seeing a serpent or a grass snake on the seashore, Egl meets her bridegroom ilvinas, who appears to be a handsome man - the Grass Snake Prince. 81-82. Philologist and folklorist Julian Krzyanowski (. . Moskva: , 2009 [1934]. She does and takes her three children with her. Crying, the girl becomes a birch near the shore, while her children become trees. She buries it and curses her children to become a nightingale, a swallow and a starling, while herself becomes a dove. Moskva: , 1975. pp. [40] Another line of scholarship states that the tale refers to an ancient "Balto-Slavic totemic myth". Ancient Egypt had a vast array of Gods and Goddesses. The Tuatha D Danann is a race of Celtic people with supernatural abilities. Tyr m Norse Mythology From Tr, the Old Norse form of the name of the Germanic god *Twaz, related to Indo-European *Dyws (see Zeus).In Norse mythology he was a god associated with war and justice, by some accounts a son of Odin.While the gods bound the great wolf Fenrir, Tyr placated the beast by placing his right hand in its mouth.After the binding was successful, Fenrir bit off Tyr's hand. [20], The story has also been considered an oikotype, i.e., a form of the tale that is specific to a certain region (in this case, the Baltic geographical area). The medieval Lamia Lilith could shapeshift, particularly as a snake. The priests of Heliopolis, followers of the sun god Re, developed the myth of Isis. "On the Cult of the Snake in Ancient Baltic and Slavic Tradition (based on language material from the Latvian folksongs)". "Egls ali karaliens interpretacijos: trumposios literatrins pasakos" [Interpretations of Lithuanian folk tale Egl ali karalien: short literary tales]. 818 Likes, 7 Comments - (@belarusian_monsters) on Instagram: "", . In: This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 14:40. Zuhra runs back home and tells her mother everything, and they fence the house, hoping it will keep the snake out. Finally, Egl herself turns into a spruce. Back to her castle, the princess's brothers express their distaste about their snake brother-in-law, and question their nieces about their home life. Zaltis takes Jegle back to their palace, and explains her brothers will be restored to normal after a while. Hera was the goddess of marriage, family, and childbirth and was often portrayed as a regal and influential figure. 90 likes, 5 comments - (@elizah_leigh_art_writer) on Instagram on January 15, 2021: ""What . [78], Professor Jack V. Haney stated that variants of type 425M appear "frequently recorded among the Russians", but "less frequently by Belarusians and Ukrainians". Magic Tales That End Badly. Once more about the semantics of serpent in European folk-lore]. [38], Another view, espoused by scholar Eugenijus muida, is that the tale harks back to a myth about a maiden offered as the bride to a snake (who represents a deity of waters). The girl obeys and a human prince appears. Lithuania - Egl the Queen of Serpents In another time, long ago lived an old man and his wife. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home deco. After she put her daughter and grandchildren to bed, the old woman uttered the incantation, drew forth the snake husband, in human form, out of the palace and decapitated him with an axe. She tries to summon her husband, but, realizing something is wrong, she finds the snake's body. Her old mother seizes a sickle and "rushed into the country". [121], Similarities can be found in Vodnk, a story written by Czech author Karel Jaromr Erben as a poem in the book Kytice z povst nrodnch ("A Bouquet of Folk Legends"). " ". The girl and her mother board up the doors and windows and wait for a sudden storm to pass. The man moves out of his parents's home with his wife to an island in the middle of the sea. Danae The daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and Queen Eurydice, . The man explains he was taken by the genie race when he was little, but eventually became their leader, and the girl has nothing to fear. The third time, he gets his bride and takes her to his underwater kingdom. He takes her to his underwater castle and marries her. -: , 1984. pp. [112], Folklorist Terrence Hansen, in his catalogue of Latin American folktales, identified two tale types wherein a girl meets an enchanted fish and is taught magic to summon fish (in one type) or to bring fresh water (in the other). [122], Studies suggest that characters of the tale named several geographic features, such as toponyms and hydronyms of northwestern Russia, Pskov region. Jegle goes to the lake to meet Zaltis, who is in human form, and takes her to his underwater palace. He then announces a contest to all prospective suitors: to guess the material of his daughter's shoes. When opening the door the mother finds a tiny head without a body and a tiny body without a head lying in their blood on the doorstep of her hut. "TENDENCIES OF THE FORMATION AND USAGE OF BALTIC NOUNS WITH SUFFIX -UT- IN LITHUANIA". The girl is wreathing a flower garland that is swept off by the wind and falls on the sea. The girl begins to cry, but a voice tells her it will return the clothes if she becomes the voice's wife. While Athena was a mythological figure, the Cult of Athena was very real. When conversing with her mother, the maiden unwittingly revealed her husband's name (Osip) and the incantation to summon him. In order to be allowed to visit home, Egl is required to fulfill three impossible tasks: to spin a never-ending tuft of silk, wear down a pair of iron shoes and to bake a pie with no utensils. She agrees; the snake returns the garments and teaches her a command to summon him, Yaku. [110], The tale is also said to be "very popular" in the Pomeranian region. Egl the Queen of Serpents is one of the best-known Lithuanian fairy tales with many references to the Baltic mythology. He marries the elder in church. Folktale Type 425-M: A Study in Oicotype and Folk Belief, Les contes du peuple lituanien dans la littrature contemporaine, English translation of the tale (following Salomja Neris' version), A version of the tale from Suwalski, Poland, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Egl_the_Queen_of_Serpents&oldid=1150329812, Eugenijus muida Egl ali karalien: gyvybs ir mirties domenas. Gorgon Medusa. Shahmaran is a mythical creature, half snake and half woman, the first human she encounters is a young man named Camasb (also known as Yada Jamsab, Jamisav, Jamasp in other versions of the story). According to historian Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), the Greeks used the Medusa story to justify the destruction of idols and temples of an ancient goddess mother wherever they found them. This happens again with the middle sister. In Greek mythology, a Gorgon (derived from "gorgos", meaning terrible) was a monster that was known to have the ability to turn onlookers into stone.It was said that there were three Gorgons, two immortal (Euryale and Stheno) and one mortal, Medusa, they had hair made of living, venomous snakes that they received as punishment from Athena, Medusa's image has become famous. Eckert, Rainer. Delighted, she made another figure, and another and another, and each came to life in the same way. [35] By using the magical incantation to summon the snake bridegroom, Egle builds a bridge between her world and the aquatic one (or an underground, chthonic realm). The angels deliver God's message to her: She can return to Adam, no harm no foul, or God will kill 100 of her children every day. They do not say a word to their sister about the horrible crime they have just committed. Her suitors are to discover what material the shoes are made of (tale type AaTh 621, "The Louseskin"). According to researcher Svetlana Ryzhakova, the tale first appeared in print in 1837, published by one M. Jaseviiaus or M. Jasaviius, in the supplement Biruta. " . The man's wife goes to the beach and repeats the song to summon her husband, but he does not appear. Or Cupid the Serpent and the Morning Star?" They live together and have three sons. A bronze sculpture displaying Egl and the Serpent by Robertas Antinis has been constructed in Palanga Botanical Garden, Lithuania in 1960. 1998. "" ": ". https://go.nebula.tv/extramythologyIn Lithuania, there's a story about how the trees got their names. , [Ryzhakova, Svetlana Igorevna] (2009). [113], Africanist Sigrid Schmidt stated that in African tales, the secret song known only by heroine and husband and learned by others who use it to betray the couple "connects also with the East European tale of The Snake as Bridegroom". When the mother tells him to go away and eat whatever he has for dinner in his lair, he knocks again, saying his bed needs to be made. On the other hand, if the tale ends with the transformation of the family into birds or reptiles, it is a tale from East Slavic origin. She often had a serpent's tale even when the rest of her form was that of a beautiful woman. [68] According to Estonian folklorists (who worked in conjunction with the Lithuanians), the Estonian archives registered 34 variants of the tale type,[69] and, at the end of the tale, the serpent's wife becomes a birch or aspen and her children turn into bark or leaves. After nine days, Egl arrives at the seashore and calls her husband, but unfortunately only the foams of blood return from the sea. In: . The uncles go to the beach, sing the song to summon the snake man and kill him. According to Greek myths, she was a very beautiful young woman who had many suitors. She takes her sons to visit her brothers, and the brothers pry the children for anything. In a variation of the story, Princess Himal is a human and her lover Nagaray is a nga - a snake-like being that lives in a watery realm, and at the end of the tale deities Shiva and Parvati reunite both lovers by resurrecting their ashes in a magical spring. 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