The next day, the snake asks her to prepare the oven and to throw it in the fire. . [116] The story was considered by folklorist Dan Ben-Amos as belonging to the type 425M. Delighted, she made another figure, and another and another, and each came to life in the same way. ""Egl ali karalien": pasakos topografijos paiekos" ["Egl - the Queen of Serpents": in search of the tale's topography]. In: , 1 (11): 11. When the girl goes to the shore to return to her husband, she summons him and sees his head floating in the water. Bagoinas, Saulis. The priests of Heliopolis, followers of the sun god Re, developed the myth of Isis. [87], Bronisaw Sokalski published another Polish variant with the title Krl ww ("The Serpent King"). [24], Researcher Galina Kabakova cites that most variants feature a serpent husband: a snake, a boa, a winged serpent, even a Hydra-like dragon. The snake makes the girl give her ring in exchange for the garments, and slithers back into the water. Born during the Qing dynasty, Hu Tianbao found himself attracted to an official of the local government, spying on him naked through a hole in his bathroom wall. [15] Watch Extra Mythology ad-free on Nebula! The next day, the girl and her daughters go back to the lake. 4. pp. The full myth of Perseus and Medusa begins years before they battled. [54], According to researcher Galina Kabakova, the fate of the children at the end of the tale is important to determine the origin of that particular variant (based on a geographical method): in the main Lithuanian versions, mother and children are transformed into trees, a motif that occurs in versions collected from the Belarus's border between Poland and Lithuania, and in Russian versions collected in Lithuania. Zuhra and her children go back to the surface world and visit the grandparents. [118], Indian scholar Suniti Kumar Chatterji summarized the Lithuanian tale and stated that it "reminded" him of the Kashmiri story about Princess Himal and Nagrai (Ngaray), the Prince of Snakes. [106], In a tale from the Tatar people titled "" ("Zuhra"), an old couple try to have a child, but none of their children survive, until they have a girl they name Zuhra. [3], gl is a popular female name in Lithuania. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological queens. " ". She explains she lives underwater and to return she only has to call on her husband's name: Ahmet. Now, she is a bloodthirsty villain who slithers through the darkness of the night, searching for children to devour, or walks in beauty through the daylight, searching for . Before they enter her parents' house, the girl warns her daughters to keep quiet about their life. When the snake is older, he goes to a neighbour to court his daughters. [56], According to scholar Norbertas Vlius, the tale is "more common" in the eastern area of Lithuania, where "more than two thirds" of the variants have been collected. Years pass, the fisherman's wife dies and Jegle runs the house while her father and brothers are away. Her husband agrees to let her visit her family with her son, teaches her a spell and give her gold to gift her family. Note that serpent men are different to "man serpents", which are typically depicted the other way round, having the bodies of giant snakes but the heads of human beings. In: lekonyt, Jrat. 81-82. Lithuania - Egl the Queen of Serpents In another time, long ago lived an old man and his wife. Mythology In myths, legends, scripture and folklore, the category naga comprises all kinds of serpentine beings . [72], In an Estonian tale published by folklorist Oskar Loorits with the title Die Schlangenbraut ("The Snake's Bride"), a mother consults with a wise man the fate of her daughters: her two elders shall marry later, but the youngest shall soon meet her intended mate, a snake. The man moves out of his parents's home with his wife to an island in the middle of the sea. "Buto is the Greek name for the town where her worship centered in the Nile Delta" (Babb . Snakes in religion and ancient Greek mythology. In: Stryczyska-Hodyl, Ewa. Snakes were associated with death and thunder which link with Ryujin's role as a bringer of rain and storms. [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"). Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA) Hecate (Hekate) is a goddess of Greek mythology capable of both good and evil. [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. A bronze sculpture displaying Egl and the Serpent by Robertas Antinis has been constructed in Palanga Botanical Garden, Lithuania in 1960. [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). She insists on visiting her parents and showing them their grandchildren, but her husband warns that disaster may loom upon their family. She then questions her sons if any of them told anything about the secret song, and the youngest answers that he did. A woman appears from the lake, becomes an old man and enters the court. The girl visits her family, but her brothers consult with a nearby witch, who reveals the sons know how to summon their father. The girl begins to cry and becomes a birch tree, her two elder daughters birch bark and the youngest a trembling leaf. She was a woman from the waist up with the tail of a serpent in place of legs. A similar assessment was made by professor Jack V. Haney, to whom the tale type appears "only around the south Baltic coast". 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. Kabakova, Galina. [3] [4] [5] Camasb gets stuck in a cave after he tries to steal honey with a few friends, his friends leave him alone in the cave. The elder two leave the lake and, take their garments and go home. Barag, Lev. Its mythological background has been an interest of Lithuanian and foreign researchers of Indo-European mythology. In this variant, The Water Snake or Ujak, an old woman's daughter went to bathe with other girls in the pond. Egl the Queen of Serpents, alternatively Egl the Queen of Grass Snakes ( Lithuanian: Egl ali karalien ), is a Lithuanian folk tale, first published by M. Jasewicz in 1837. Later, Sira eats some food her mother prepared and a hen reveals it is made from the flesh of the serpent. In the first type, the girl drowns herself in the sea; in the other, she sinks to the ground after she sees the dead fish. The exact location of their bathing remains undisclosed. In: Astramskait, Daiva (1993). Manasa is the daughter of Lord Shiva and is also known as the queen of serpents. Jegle goes to the lake to meet Zaltis, who is in human form, and takes her to his underwater palace. She returns home to her family with dresses and money to give her sisters, and to wait for her husband to fetch her. muida also suggests that tales that lack family drama and friction might be the original forms of the story. "Krybikumo proveriai pasakoje "Egl ali karalien"" [Outbreaks of creativity in the tale "Egl - the queen of serpents"]. They come to claim Egl as their master's bride and their future queen, but are tricked by her relatives each time. [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). "Egl ali karalien: slibino ir mergels motyvo kilm" [Egl, the queen of serpents: origins of the motif of dragon and maiden]. -: , 1984. pp. Z zagadnie przysowioznawstwa, https://doi.org/10.17161/folklorica.v3i2.3670, HISTORY OF RECORDING OF FOLKTALE GRASS-SNAKE AS A HUSBAND (BATHING GIRLS GARMENT KEPT UNTIL PROMISE OF MARRIAGE) (425 M) AMONG RUSSIANS, The Complete Russian Folktale. " " [Mari Folk Tales]. The princess bears the snake man three daughters and goes to visit her family. From the very beginning, Heracles was hated by Hera, Zeus' queen. [9], The tale was translated into German language as Egle, die Schlangenknigin by German professor Carl Cappeller[sv] in his book of Lithuanian folktales,[10] and as Das Weib des Schlangenmannes ("The Wife of the Snake-Man"), and published in Mitteilungen der Litauischen literarischen Gesellschaft. [21], Folklorist Norbertas Vlius has also developed an academic interest in the narrative and analysed its elements ("the dual nature of Egle, the attributes of the snake, the types of plants") in relation to the folklore of other countries. [82], English scholar A. H. Wratislaw collected the tale Transformation into a Nightingale and a Cuckoo from "Little Russia" in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources. [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? In: . The god of the sea has a handy dispensary of useful medicines, too, especially those which can guarantee a long life. Bellerophon provides a lesson in the proper relationship between a mortal hero and the gods. 81-82. ( )" [Serpent as a Bride and an Intimate Partner of a Man. .. [16], According to Stith Thompson's reworked folktale classification, tale type AaTh 425M involves a magical formula or incantation to summon the serpent husband. In Chinese mythology, the woman-headed snake Nwa made the first humans. While Iphicles screamed in fear, Heracles grabbed one snake in . Her old mother seizes a sickle and "rushed into the country". [1] The tale features not only humanreptile shapeshifting, but irreversible humantree shapeshifting as well. "" ": ". known as slayer . Once upon a time, a white snake and a green snake living in a remote mountain became immortal and obtained super powers after centuries of practices. Three years pass, and Zuhra begins to miss home. She buries it and curses her children to become a nightingale, a swallow and a starling, while herself becomes a dove. When Egl hears her dead husband's voice and discovers how her beloved has died, as a punishment for betrayal she whispers an enchantment, which turns her fragile fearful daughter into a quaking aspen. 83-87. Zaltis takes Jegle back to their palace, and explains her brothers will be restored to normal after a while. 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. . During the wedding festivities, the snake climbs onto her lap, but the girl shoos him away. Back to the castle, she spends some time with her brothers, who insist to know how their sister can return to the snake's home. The snake takes her to his splendid underwater palace and reveals he must suffer some time under a curse: he is human under the snakeskin. Scythian She-Dragon. [31], According to Bernard Sergent, "humananimal marriage is an union that is too remote as incest is a too close one. The next two years, her mother goes to the sea shore and asks about her daughter. 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. The story has also inspired the creation of literary tales. They live happily for a time, until the day Jegle begins to miss her father and wishes to visit him. In: Bleckwenn, Helga (Hg.). She takes her sons to visit her brothers, and the brothers pry the children for anything. Greek Mythology. Sauka, Leonardas, sudarymas, pareng [com, cre]. The next morning, the maiden returned to the pond and, after realizing her mother's heinous act, condemned her daughter to become a wren, her son a nightingale and herself a cuckoo. [96], British scholar William Ralston Shedden-Ralston translated a variant collected by Erlenwein from the Tula Government. The earliest records in existence indicate this snake god was closely tied to the rain and water god, Tlaloc, and that his original domain was vegetation. Hera was worshipped* in all parts of Greece and temples were built for her at Argos and Salmos. [50], Other variations lie in the secret code the wife learns from her snake husband, and in the fate of the heroine and their children (sometimes all girls; sometimes all boys): they are either transformed into trees or into birds and disappear forever. THE DRAKAINA SKYTHIA (Scythian Dracaena) was the first ruler of the land of Skythia. 170-171. A little bird gives her a clue on how to fulfill both tasks and she tricks her husband. Sira bakes flour breads with "hydromel" (mead) to take to a mysterious person. "Egl, die Knigin der Nattern. In: Sauka, Leonardas. In this tale, a beetle appears on the maiden's dress and proposes to her. Medusa is a classic example of this, and indeed many other man serpents have the hypnotic stare and superhuman strength that the snake queen is known for. Riga: , 1969. pp. Magic Tales That End Badly. [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"). The old woman places her grandchildren to bed, and, taking a saber, goes to the lake in the dead of night to summon the Black Snake (the "padishah of the jinn"). [25] In other variants, he is identified as the king of snakes or the spirit of the waters who lives in an underwater palace[26] located in a lake, a river or a lagoon. Hera was jealous of her husband Zeus' mortal lovers and children, and even before Heracles was born she tried to destroy him. "Romeo Moses and Psyche Brunhild? The deepest part of the underworld, that is, and Mictlntcutli was in charge. The princess asks which of her daughters spilled the secret song (the youngest), and curses herself to become a birch tree, and her daughters to turn into parts of the tree (foliage, tree bark and membrane). After Sira leaves, Cumba returns home to tell her mother everything. [122], Studies suggest that characters of the tale named several geographic features, such as toponyms and hydronyms of northwestern Russia, Pskov region. In this tale, a human maiden falls in love with a snake and they both live in an underground palace made of crystal. 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. The reunion of mother and daughter is very emotional and they eventually hug despite daughter's promise. Melville) . Tom 2. Variants have also been found from Tatar (4 tales) and Kazakh (1 version) sources. The two elder brothers try to summon the snake brother-in-law, but he recognizes their voices do not belong to his wife. 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. "Le mari-serpent ou Pourquoi le coucou coucoule". Legend states that when the snake lets go of its . 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. One day, the man's wife wants to visit her brothers, and the man teaches her a magic command to move from the island to the continent, while also warning her not to tell anything of their life to her brothers. The third time, he gets his bride and takes her to his underwater kingdom. The story can be subdivided into a number of sections each having parallels with motifs of other folk tales, yet a combination of them is unique. [97], Professor Jack Haney published another Russian variant, titled The Lake Beetle as Groom. Thor battling the Midgard Serpent by Emil Doepler. In a furious rage the goblin returns to the lake and through the shrieking storm screams that pierce the soul are heard. 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. After meeting the long lost family member, Egl's relatives do not wish to let her return to the sea and decide to kill ilvinas. [55], The tale type is recognized as being "most at home in the Balto-Slavic regions". #1 Late Night. In this tale, three sisters are bathing in the water. Finally, Egl herself turns into a spruce. According to Greek myths, she was a very beautiful young woman who had many suitors. She convinces her husband to let her go to the surface to visit her parents, and he gives her gold and silver to gift his mother-in-law. In another myth, Hera sent two snakes to kill Heracles when he was still an infant. In: . [29] It is also said that the ancient Lithuanians revered the grass snake (altys). ". . The grandfather asks his grandchildren about where they live; the youngest girl tells him about the snake husband and the magical song. 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. After the birth of their first child, the abducted wife sings it a lullaby about her past, which enrages the water goblin. When they leave to get her clothes, the youngest finds a snake on her garments, which promises to return them if she becomes his wife. The serpent is so large that it can wrap itself around the earth and bite its own tail. Three years passed and she returned to her mother's house with two little children, a boy and a girl. [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. They terrorized anyone who had the misfortune to see them. [128], A literary telling is attributed to Russian author Leo Tolstoy. " - " [NON-FAIRY PROZE OF VELIZHSKY REGION IN SMOLENSK DISTRICT - GENERAL AND SPECIAL IN LOCAL TRADITION]. [105], In a tale attributed to the Chuvash people, " " ("About the girl and the snake"), three sisters run to the shore to play and bathe in the water. Three years pass, and the snake's human wife has given birth to a boy and a girl. 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. [129] In his tale, titled The Snake, the serpent lies on the smock of a girl named Masha. 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. The two elders leave, while the youngest, named Lilla, tries to find her dress and sees a snake on it. She is known by many names including Buto, Uatchit, Uadjet, and Edjo to name a few (McDevitt). 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. 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. (2016). The girl wishes to go back home to show her father the child, and, despite some reservations, the snake husband allows her to pay him a visit, by teaching a spell to access her watery home. She was a daughter of Poseidon and a queen of Libya. When they finished bathing, a snake appeared and hid the maiden's shift in exchange for her hand in marriage. . 1998. 8 Tu Er ShenChinese Mythology. He marries the elder in church. In: Litwa: staroytne dzieje, ustawy, jzyk, wiara, obyczaje, pieni, przysowia, podania itd, Mitteilungen Der Litauischen Literarischen Gesellschaft, https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/k-rekonstruktsii-praslavyanskoy-mifologii, Egl ali karalien: slibino ir mergels motyvo kilm, "Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales", The Complete Russian Folktale: Russian Wondertales, Ukeikimai, magikos formuls ir vard problema balt "ali karaliens" variantuose, https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1515/9783112611289-086, Powiat sokalski pod wzgldem geograficznym, etnograficznym, historycznym i ekonomicznym, Szkice folklorystyczne: Wok legendy i zagadki. [74], German scholar Oskar Dhnhardt[de] collected an untitled Estonian tale: a king has a daughter and three sons. The next morning, Zuhra says her goodbyes to her mother and goes back to the lake. The uncles go to the beach, sing the song to summon the snake man and kill him. Sauka, Leonardas, sudarymas, rengjas [com, cre]. The princess is given to the snake as wife and goes with the animal to its home. She reaches home and spends some time there. . Zeus was afraid of her. In: muida, Eugenijus. 2015. [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. This happens for the next two nights, until the girl agrees to go with the reptile. Perseus was the son of Danae, daughter of Acrisius the King of Argos, and Zeus. 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. When he was still an infant, she sent snakes to attack him in his crib. In: Palmaitis, Letas. [41], A quantitative study, published by folklorist Sara Graa da Silva and anthropologist Jamshid J. Tehrani in 2016, seemed to indicate that the tale type shows a certain antiquity: based on a phylogenetic model, both researchers estimated that the ATU 425M type belongs to an "ancestral tale corpora" of the Balto-Slavic languages. The Folk Tale about Grass Snake as a Story of Baltic Identity]. Once more about the semantics of serpent in European folk-lore]. One day, their daughters wish to visit their grandparents. As the story continues, the girl's relatives imitate her voice to draw out the fish and kill it. Suddenly, a booming voice echoes from below the water asking the girl to marry it. A toad and a crab jump out of the water to tell the woman the girl is doing fine. Dromantait-Stancikien, Aist. The maiden "saw she had manifest death before her" and, by her command, orders her children to become birds: the boy a nightingale and the girl a cuckoo, and it is implied that a dead nettle is what remained of her. In: . [8] Hungarian scholar Endre Bjtar[hu] called it Egle (Silver Pine), the Snake Goddess and Egle (Silver Fir), the Snake Queen. They do not say a word to their sister about the horrible crime they have just committed. She guesses correctly and takes the girl as daughter-in-law and wife for her son. After some years, the girl wants to visit her human family, but the water snake sets a task: to wear down some pairs of iron shoes. He gives in on three conditions: She is not to embrace a single soul, not even her mother; she has to leave the baby behind as a hostage; and she will return by the bells of the evening vespers. The girl obeys and a human prince appears. FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association 3 (2): 12. A domesticated goose, a sheep and then a cow are given instead of the bride to the legion of the grass snakes, but once they start a journey back home, the cuckoo, who is sitting in the birch tree, warns them about the deceit. In: , . The girl accepts, if only to get her garments back. [100], Russian scholarship states that a tradition in Pskov holds that the daughter of the snake husband turns into a frog. Mictlntcutli is the Aztec god of death, king of Mictlan. Masha's mother is the one to kill the snake husband with a hatchet. [19], The tale has become the object of scholarly interest of ethnologist Jonas Balys[lt]. Although the Furies appear in the Iliad as spirits who make sure things are. In: . This told that Isis was the daughter of the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut and the sister of the deities Osiris, Seth, and Nephthys.Married to Osiris, king of Egypt, Isis was a queen who supported her husband and taught the women of Egypt how to weave, bake, and brew beer. 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. The Tuatha D Danann is a race of Celtic people with supernatural abilities. She leaves for the lake to do her laundry. . The serpent emerges from the water and is killed by the man. Moskva: , 1975. pp. The fisherman returns home and discovers his wife had given birth to a baby girl named Jegle. In: . The girl begins to cry, but a voice tells her it will return the clothes if she becomes the voice's wife. He also teaches her a command to summon him when she returns, and makes her promise to keep it a secret. Sauka, Leonardas. The girl agrees to come with him to the lake. She is the sister of Vasuki, king of Nagas and wife of sage Jagatkaru. The snake father allows them to go back to land and teaches his wife a song to open a passage back to mainland. For the next week, her mother forbids her to set foot outside their yurt. A snake slithers from beneath the well, goes to the king's court, and guesses the right answer. She tries to calm him down and pleads to be allowed ashore to visit her mother once. They found her in the middle of the Red Sea, surrounded by demons, where she was employed in her new role, namely giving birth to a hundred-plus monsters a day, known as lilim. Like many beautiful demi goddesses in Greek mythology, she became the object of Zeus's affections. 227 likes, 23 comments - (@graisonsfinejewellery) on Instagram: "**Personal collection at the moment . When the youngest sister leaves and looks for her garments, the maiden sees a huge snake sitting on her garments. " ( 425) ". , [Ryzhakova, Svetlana Igorevna] (2009). Pasaka par zalkti baltu identitti veidojos ststs" [Spruce the Bride of the Grass Snake. One day, the princess finds a louse in her father's hair, who decides to fatten the bug and use its hide as part of a suitor riddle: whoever guesses the nature of the hide shall marry the princess. Moskva: , 2009 [1934]. 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 is worshipped by many in India, particularly in Bengal . the dance, live snakes were handled and at the end of the dance the snakes were released into the fields to guarantee good crops. 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. The snake asks the girl to be his wife and to live with him in his crystal palace. As soon as the lacustrine king emerges, his brothers-in-law try to grab him, but his magic turns them into stones. Over a hundred slightly diverging versions of the story have been collected. "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"]. . . . In fact, she was a queen. The old woman convinces her daughter to spend a night on her old home, while she goes in the dead of night to the shore to summon the snake spouse and kill him. In Thailand, the Naga is a Pluto-analogue, an underworld deity associated with wealth. Numerology is also evident in the tale, such as twelve sons, three daughters, three days, three tricks, three weeks of feast, nine years under the oath of marriage, three tasks given to Egl by her husband to fulfill and nine days of visits. Zobarskas, Stepas. Enraged grass snakes return for a final time and threaten everyone with dry year, deluge and famine. 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. Moscow: , 2009. p. 54. 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