What does the fairy tale about the little hen teach? But this is not all the arguments in favor of reading fiction books.
Hello, dear readers of the Russian Word blog!
In a previous article about fairy tales, I wrote that storytelling fairy tales- This is an old Russian custom.
Each of us remembers our childhood, when adults told fairy tales, and we asked for more and more new fairy tales. The fairy tale immerses us in a fantastic world full of mysteries and secrets. Everything secret, unknown, unknown always attracts...
But here's what's interesting. Did you know that those fairy tales that we loved to listen to in childhood, and which we now tell our children, are
ADAPTED fairy tales?!
Actually in Russian folk tales not adapted the ancient ideas of the people about life are hidden. All unadapted fairy tales very scary. After reading such a fairy tale, an unprepared person will, at best, experience shock, and at worst, plunge into deep depression.
When reading an unadapted fairy tale, you need to understand that it was created several thousand years ago. Therefore, you need to have at least a general understanding of the rites and rituals of the ancient Slavs.
For example, our ancestors imagined life to be endless.
Since ancient times, the symbol of the infinity of life has been egg. The egg is the prototype of all life on earth! By the way, I remembered a question that always baffles me: what came first - the chicken or the egg?.. However, there is always new life in the egg!
Everyone knows the “simple” fairy tale about the Ryaba Hen:
Once upon a time there lived a grandfather and a woman. They had Ryaba chicken. The chicken laid an egg, not an ordinary one - a golden one. Grandfather beat and beat, but did not break. The woman beat and beat, but did not break. The mouse ran, waved its tail, the egg fell and broke. The grandfather is crying, the woman is crying, and the chicken is clucking: “Don’t cry, grandfather, don’t cry, woman!” I will lay you a new egg, not a golden one, but a simple one!
I confess I never understood the meaning of this tale! Why do grandpa and grandma suddenly start crying and are worried about a broken testicle?! They themselves wanted to break it! And by the way, why did they want to break it?!
The meaning of this story will become clear if you read the unadapted text of the fairy tale. Here he is:
There lived a grandfather and a woman. And they had grouse hen, old old lady.
She laid an egg in the hay on a shelf, on rye straws. Wherever the mouse came from, it split this egg.
The grandfather is crying, the woman is grieving, the magpie has broken her leg, the backbone has become loose, the oak tree has knocked off its leaves.
The priest's daughter went for water, broke the buckets, and came home without water. Popadya asks: “Why are you daughter, did you come without water?” She said:
What grief is upon me, what great grief is upon me! There lived an old man and an old woman. And they had a hazel hen, an old little old lady. She laid an egg in the canopy on a shelf, on rye straws. Wherever the mouse came from, it split this egg. The grandfather is crying, the woman is grieving, the magpie has broken her leg, the backbone has become loose, the oak tree has knocked off its leaves. And I went for water, broke the buckets, broke the rocker. At least you, dear, leave the pies out of the window out of grief!
The priest got upset and threw the pies out the window. The priest goes: “What are you doing, priest?!” And she answers:
What grief I feel, what great grief I feel! There lived an old man and an old woman. And they had a hazel hen, an old little old lady. She laid an egg in the canopy on a shelf, on rye straws. Wherever the mouse came from, it split this egg. The grandfather is crying, the woman is grieving, the magpie has broken her leg, the backbone has become loose, the oak tree has knocked off its leaves. Our daughter went to fetch water, broke the buckets, and broke the rocker. And out of grief, I left all the pies out the window. And you, priest, at least hurt yourself on the doorframe out of grief!
The priest ran away, and how he hit the doorframe! That's where he died. They began to bury the priest and celebrate a wake.
What an expensive egg!..
There is another, even more creepy, version of this story, where the granddaughter, having learned that the testicle was broken, took it and... hanged herself! Horror!
Everyone has known the fairy tale about the Ryaba Hen since childhood.This tale is perhaps the very first to be told.
Because of the simplicity and unpretentiousness of the plot?
Let's wait to answer this question.
The meaning of the Ryaba Hen has worried me for a long time. It always seemed to me that this fairy tale was full of omissions.
Recently, I started studying Ryaba Hen once again and I again had a suspicion that Ryaba Hen is not talking about what we all think about.
I decided to delve into the issue and immediately came across the fact that a truncated, adapted version of the fairy tale is published in children's books.
In fact...
There lived an old man and an old woman. And they had an old hazel hen. She laid an egg in the canopy on a shelf, on rye straws. Wherever the mouse came from, it split this egg. Grandfather crying, woman grieves magpie broke my leg tyn got loose, oak I knocked off the leaves.
Popov's daughter I went for water, broke the buckets, and came home without water. Popadya asks: “Why are you daughter, did you come without water?” She says: What grief is upon me, how great is it upon me: “Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman. And they had an old hazel hen. She laid an egg in the canopy on a shelf, on rye straws. Wherever the mouse came from, it split this egg. The grandfather is crying, the woman is grieving, the magpie has broken her leg, the backbone has become loose, the oak tree has knocked off its leaves. And I went for water, broke the buckets, broke the rocker. At least leave the pies out of the window out of grief!” Popadya out of grief and threw the pies out the window.
The priest goes: “What are you doing, priest?” And she replies: “What a grief it is for me, how great it is for me. There lived an old man and an old woman. And they had an old hazel hen. She laid an egg in the canopy on a shelf, on rye straws. Wherever the mouse came from, it split this egg. The grandfather is crying, the woman is grieving, the magpie has broken her leg, the backbone has become loose, the oak tree has knocked off its leaves. Our daughter went to fetch water, broke the buckets, and broke the rocker. And out of grief, I left all the pies out the window. And you, priest, at least hurt yourself on the doorframe out of grief!” Pop ran up and hit the doorframe! That's where he died. They began to bury the priest and celebrate a wake. What an expensive egg!
* Fairy tale “Dear egg”, Fairy tales of the Saratov region. Saratov, 1937.
Fairy tale "Chicken"
Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman, they had a Tatar hen, she laid an egg in the closet under the window: motley, colorful, boney, tricky! I put it on the shelf; The mouse walked, shook its tail, the shelf fell, and the egg broke. The old man is crying, the old woman is sobbing, the stove is on fire, the top of the hut is shaking, the girl-granddaughter hanged herself out of grief.
Mallow comes and asks: Why are they crying so much? The old people began to retell: “How can we not cry? We have a Tatar hen that laid an egg in the hut under the window: motley, colorful, boney, tricky! I put it on the shelf; The mouse walked, shook its tail, the shelf fell, and the egg broke! I, an old man, am crying, the old woman is sobbing, the stove is on fire, the top of the hut is shaking, the girl-granddaughter hanged herself out of grief.” When the breadmaker heard it, she broke all the bread and threw it away.
The sexton comes up and asks the breadmaker: why did she throw away the bread?
She told him all the grief; the sexton ran to the bell tower and broke all the bells.
The priest comes and asks the sexton: why did you break the bells? The sexton recounted all the grief to the priest, and the priest ran and tore up all the books.
* “Russian Folk Tales”, Afanasyev A.N.
After reading a fairy tale about a chicken in full version, I think I finally understand its meaning.
But I wondered if there were any other versions of the interpretation of the fairy tale.
Surprisingly, it was not only me who was interested in the question of the meaning of the Ryaba Hen)).
Here are some interesting versions.
Vladimir Toporov (the founder of the “theory of the main myth”) traced the plot of the fairy tale to the motif of the World Egg, which is split by the mythological hero. V. N. Toporov reconstructed this motif from fairy-tale-type texts (plot 301 - “Three kingdoms: gold, silver and copper”) and similar ones. It was assumed that the motif of the split World Egg and the origin of the world as a whole or its individual parts (sky, earth, etc.) from it is common to the mythological ideas of many peoples, including the Slavs, the Baltic Finns, the ancient Greeks, and the inhabitants of China, India, Indonesia, Oceania, Australia, Africa, etc.
Toporov believed that the fairy tale “Ryaba Hen” is an extreme degenerate version of the above mythological concept.
According to L. G. Moshchenskaya, “Ryab the Hen” reflects a deep layer of mythopoetic ideas; the fairy tale contains a cosmogonic model of the world, divided into the upper, middle and lower worlds. Wherein middle world(The earth) is embodied by a grandfather, a woman and a pockmarked hen, the lower world (underworld) is embodied by a mouse, and the upper world is a golden cosmic egg. The ambivalent nature of the central acting heroes fairy tales, mice and chickens, allows us to consider the plot in two keys: positive, creative (breaking an egg is the creation of a starry sky) and negative, destructive.
Boris Zakhoder believed that “Ryaba Hen” is a fairy tale about human happiness: “Happiness is a golden egg - people beat it this way and that, and a mouse ran by and waved its tail...” This interpretation meets with support: “Try to tell happiness and the ease of losing it somehow more clearly, more imaginatively, more holistically... Everyone understands that this is what the fairy tale is about.”
Mr. Strelnikov (Proza.ru website) believes the following:
“Thus, by the end of the tale, the most plausible version of its meaning emerges. It boils down to the following: the Ryaba hen laid an egg that looks like a golden one: with a special shell structure (less likely, with a gilded shell). Grandfather and woman, seeing a beautiful egg, decided that it must have an extraordinary taste and began to beat it to try it. But, since the egg was a little stronger than a simple one, and the grandfather and woman had little strength left in their old age, they were unable to break the golden egg. When they laid the egg aside, a mouse ran by, dropped the egg on the floor with its tail, and it broke. Grandfather and woman cried because they could not taste this egg and because they realized their old age and weakness. The hen Ryaba began to console them, promising to lay not a golden egg, but a simple one. Ryaba the hen apparently wanted to please her grandfather and grandmother with the golden egg, but she saw that it only caused them grief. Chicken Ryaba decided that a simple egg, even if not so beautiful, at least would not bring grief: it could be easily broken and eaten.
So, in all likelihood, the meaning of “The Tale of the Ryaba Hen” can be indicated by the Russian proverb “old age is not joy.”
M.E. Vigdorchik in the article “Analysis of the Russian fairy tale “The Ryaba Hen” in the theory of object relations” writes: “The golden egg laid by the hen is a symbol of a child that has special significance for his parents. […] This interpretation is consistent with the subsequent part of the fairy tale, where we're talking about about how both grandfather and woman beat an egg. They beat - they educate, they try to bring the egg into line with their ideas, and the bitterness of disappointment sets in when at one moment a certain “mouse” achieves what they themselves could not achieve in relation to the egg. Who is she, this mouse? And her symbolic meaning and her actions (wagging her tail) indicate that this is a woman (daughter-in-law) who is perceived by her son’s parents as a rival who behaves frivolously. Parents can find consolation only in the remaining “Ryaba Hen” and her reproductive function.”
S.Z.Agranovich bases his analysis on psychoanalysis: “Grandfather and grandmother are elderly people (not by chance!); they also embody the human collective (after all, they are a heterosexual couple).
The egg is the personification of life.
Gold is a symbol of death (in myths, gold and wealth are found precisely in the kingdom of the dead; in Slavic fairy tales, Koschey, the representative of the kingdom of the dead, is always associated with gold).
The golden egg that the grandfather and woman received is “anti-life, a black mark.”
Having received a golden egg, the grandfather and woman perceive it as a sign of approaching death. They take turns trying to break the egg, but nothing works.
The mouse is an intermediary between the world of the living (earthly) and the dead (underground). This is a creature that serves two worlds and acts unpredictably. The mouse is two-faced and can do both good and evil.
The priest's family is a model of both the human family and sacred society.
An egg broken by a mouse scares everyone. The world begins to fall apart, social madness occurs. The reason for the collapse is unknown. Nobody knows what will happen next. They are unable to explain the mouse’s action due to its two-faced nature.
The denouement comes: the hen promises to lay a SIMPLE egg, which means to give LIFE. Of course everyone is happy! They are saved!
Thus, a “children's fairy tale” turns out to be a story about life and death, about society, and how the struggle for life develops. The fairy tale about the chicken Ryaba conveys the emotions of a life-threatening situation: anxiety, fear, despair, and in the end - joy and jubilation.
Surprisingly, I didn’t find my version.
Although, it seems to me, it explains a lot.
In my opinion, the fairy tale teaches (instills from childhood) that everything depends on everything.
I remember Bradbury's butterfly - yes, that very incident.
An accidentally broken egg entails a whole series of disasters, human casualties and natural disasters.
The fairy tale says in plain text - be careful, think through your actions, they can change everything around you, including you.
The fairy tale reminds: beware of random, unmotivated actions, they can bring serious consequences.And this is not even the notorious fingers in the socket and jumping with an umbrella from the 5th floor. This is much more serious and global!
The egg was often the object of various magical rituals. Eggs were often used for treatment - it was believed that the egg could draw illnesses and damage out of a person. But not everyone who wanted to could cast a spell, but only initiates who clearly knew the entire sequence of actions.
Of course, the fairy tale shows how a mouse (an unreasonable creature) accidentally reproduced a magical ritual (which neither the grandfather nor the grandmother wanted to perform - that’s why they cried).
But it was already too late.
Just as a broken egg cannot be put back into its shell, so the consequences produced by an accidental magical ritual are practically impossible to eliminate.
That is why the fairy tale about the chicken is one of the first to be told to children - children, first of all, must understand how interdependent everything is in the world, how important it is not to unknowingly break these connections and not upset the existing balance.
Since childhood, I have learned Pushkin’s words: “A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it, a lesson for good fellows.” But now, as an adult, I would argue with the great poet: the fairy tale is not a lie, but the truth! The reason for such a categorical statement is my acquaintance with fairy tale therapists. It turns out there are such people - and this is a serious and interesting direction in modern psychology. We'll talk about Cinderella, Thumbelina, the Frog Princess and others like them, but today we'll talk about a fairy tale that seems at first glance too simple - “The Ryaba Hen”. Our interlocutor is fairytale therapist Larisa Enaleeva.
Larisa, if we start talking about fairy tales not just as fictional stories for children, but as a psychotherapeutic method, then let’s look at what a fairy tale is, and how does it manifest itself in our lives?
A fairy tale is the wisdom of our ancestors; the laws of the universe are encrypted in it, which were thus passed on from generation to generation. It is clear that we all live not only in the external world, each of us has an internal world that develops according to certain laws, and a fairy tale reflects these visible and invisible processes: through metaphors, through images, through events occurring in fairy tales, we can observe our life scenarios - both external, social life, perhaps family, and internal.
That is, fairy-tale scenarios affect us independently of us?
Subconsciously, a fairy tale can influence us as a beautiful or not so beautiful illustration of our condition. A fairy tale can use the language of metaphors to show the processes that happen to us, reflect them, as in a mirror: we can look into it and gain wisdom. Or a fairy tale can become a warning for us, a hint: we shouldn’t walk this road, it’s better to go around it.
Any fairy tale, especially if we are talking about a folk tale (Russian folk, Ukrainian folk, Greek folk, any) is a concentrate of worldly wisdom, and we can use it if we have the keys to these stories. Any fairy tale is like a layer cake. We can uncover it layer by layer and plunge into the depths of meaning gradually, little by little, opening one door after another...
Is “Ryaba the Hen” a fairy tale for children or for adults?
Chicken Ryaba is a fairy tale of fairy tales. She lives from time immemorial. Why do you think such a short, seemingly simple story has been passed down from generation to generation for so many years? There is a very beautiful code in this story.
For example, what is a golden egg? The golden egg is what God gives us at birth - life. And the Ryaba chicken is a prototype of the higher powers that give us life as a great value, and it is important to protect this value. It is given once and forever. If you do not preserve it, if you succumb to the influence of evil, life, like a golden egg, can be destroyed. From birth, from infancy, we tell this fairy tale to our children in order to convey to them the idea that the most valuable thing a person has is his life, and it must be protected.
All the characters in this fairy tale are trying to break the golden egg. Grandfather beat and beat, but did not break. The woman beat and beat, but didn’t break it. The mouse ran, waved its tail, and the egg broke...
Yes, it’s the same in our lives. Next to important values, there will always be external forces that confuse and try to cause damage. Where does it all begin? The grandfather and woman do not take care of the golden egg, and they themselves begin to hit it. They fail to break it, but they try again, and then naturally a third force is found that finishes this job to the end.
And here begins a completely not children's fairy tale, where the grandfather and grandmother act as the prototype of a person who is trying to destroy himself from the inside. It could be a virus of self-criticism, for example, in a woman - I’m this and that, I can’t do this, I can’t do this, etc. The spoons with which fairy tale characters hit the golden egg can also act as viruses of anxiety, doubt, and irritation. These are some kind of twilight feelings, experiencing which, we begin to destroy ourselves from the inside, without even realizing it. But the Lord God, giving us the golden egg, our life, says: live and rejoice, increase light, love, and not despondency, fears, irritation and anger. These negative feelings are food for mice. Who is this mouse? This is a resident underground kingdom. A resident who is alien to the sun is alien to light; the mouse lives underground for a reason. It is there that the force lives that will take over and destroy the egg if you stop valuing your life.
That is, it is enough for the grandfather and grandmother to even think about breaking the golden egg, the mouse is right there. What the grandfather and grandmother could not do, the mouse did it easily - all they had to do was wave their tail and the egg would break. Grandfather is crying. Baba is crying. And the hen Ryaba declares that she will lay a simple egg for them. What does a simple egg mean?
It means that you will still have life, but will it be full of light, love and kindness? It will be as ordinary as a simple egg.
The hen Ryaba in this fairy tale is a prototype of the Creator. The Creator is merciful to us. He gives according to his strength. If you are not living the kind of life that was originally given to you by God at birth, then live another one. It is ordinary, familiar, but simple, maybe even empty.
This tale warns not only about the importance of preserving life. We can also talk about health - there are many layers of meaning here. Initially, each person is given a golden egg as a vital sign of health - mental, spiritual, physical, and a baby born in love has such health. But we can also deteriorate and destroy our health under the influence of negative thoughts, irritation, and anxiety. Or we begin to collect and multiply diseases around us with constant complaints: my back hurts, my head hurts, my neck hurts: the more we think about it, the more we nurture these diseases within ourselves, the more we feed them. The “mouse” grows and gets stronger and really affects our health. At the same time, when we multiply the health (golden egg) given to us by God, protect it - through faith, through love for ourselves, including our thoughts, then the body’s resources are preserved and protect us from “mice”, or even destroy the shackles of evil and allow us to live a full, beautiful life.
What a deep tale...
Let's consider one more layer: relationships in the union of a man and a woman. The Lord gives them love, a golden egg - a prototype of their relationship. There is grace, but now they begin to act in their usual way. What do we used to do with eggs? Break, eat, consume...
Use…
Yes, if we begin to use these relationships to satisfy our “ego”, without caring about the needs of the other, we thereby also do not take care of the golden egg, do not create some kind of work of art from it, and do not multiply the grace given to us. On the contrary, we habitually proudly react to something, act proudly, thereby attracting those forces that will destroy our relationships, our golden egg. As a result, the relationship becomes simple, ordinary, and then the woman’s eyes stop sparkling, and the man stops feeling like a warrior, a winner, a king. The fairy tale warns us: value your relationships - this is a gift from God, it was given for a reason. We know that if spouses face any difficulties, then this is also a gift from God, this is also a golden egg, we just need to take a closer look at what it teaches us.
When we read this fairy tale to children, we naturally don’t think about such deep meanings. And children don’t perceive her that way. How can we read it with kids now?
Of course, nothing needs to be interpreted specifically. After all, all the fairy tales that we simply read to kids are embedded in our subconscious. Another thing is that together with children we can become researchers, we can ask them relevant questions and reflect on the actions of the characters. What is a fairy tale code? This is what the fairy tale teaches. There is also a fairy tale code. This is the answer to the question, what is the fairy tale about?
The deep, hidden code of the fairy tale about the hen Ryaba - the values of our life, human virtues and the conclusion about how important it is to protect them. And we can think with our children about what this fairy tale is about, what important ideas are reflected in it, and how we can pass this knowledge on to a friend, dad, or mom, and how the lesson learned in the fairy tale manifests itself in our lives. Then fabulous information becomes vital. Just think about it.
Is it possible to ask children directly: what do you think the golden egg is?
Yes, and if he answers “I don’t know,” that’s okay. “Well, yes, I don’t know either, but let’s think about it: it seems to me that the golden egg is...”, and then you continue. What do you think? But it seems to me that this is... Let's see the line of heroes? How do heroes overcome difficulties? Some are active, some are passive. And so gradually, step by step, you understand the whole fairy tale. In “Chicken Ryaba,” how did the grandfather and grandmother overcome the difficulty? Passively?
It turns out, yes. They started crying.
On the one hand, tears are a passive reaction. But, on the other hand, their heart began to purify. They began to cry with regret, they felt sorry that the egg had broken... They repented truly, heartily and received another egg. And this is also one of the options for overcoming difficulties.
Sometimes heroes in fairy tales actively engage in struggle. For example, Ivan Tsarevich and Miracle Yudo on Kalinov Bridge from the fairy tale “Ivan peasant son and Miracle Yudo." There's an active battle there. Sometimes the struggle is waged in a feminine way - remember the nannies in The Frog Princess: “Go to bed, the morning is wiser than the evening”? The princess called the nannies, they baked bread for her and wove a carpet.
Who do nannies represent?
These are our invisible assistants who help us resolve difficulties. The fairy tale teaches us to remember that we are not alone in the world, we always have helpers on whom we can rely. And most importantly - internal helpers, our spiritual resources - the Mother of God, guardian angels, saints... This is the power, those, excuse me, “nurses” who will always come to the rescue.
That is, the frog Princess just prayed, to put it simply?..
She called upon all the forces of the universe into her life to solve some problem. And this is a woman’s way of resolving difficulties - through prayer, through faith in God, through inner sensation. But for help to come, there must be purity and freedom from twilight feelings, experiences and anxieties inside. An active way of fighting is a masculine type of overcoming difficulties.
To show them the value of the life they lost?
Of course, it was the mouse that was supposed to show them how irreversible the process that we ourselves launch can be, and this is very clearly demonstrated in the warning fairy tale. And the chicken Ryaba was given to decorate and renew the life of his grandfather and grandmother.
I heard a different opinion about the meaning of the golden egg: it is impractical, not applicable to life, nothing can be done with it, that’s why it broke, as not needed for life. A simple egg is closer to reality; you can boil it, make something, cook it, but you can just admire the golden one. What do you think about this interpretation of the fairy tale?
There is such an option. But then it turns out that we must give up everything that the Lord gives us to the forces of destruction and be content only with a simple life? There is a double interpretation. It turns out that you should not increase the gift of grace in yourself, but be content with the small and simple, indulging the forces of evil - the “mouse”. Then why does this fairy tale live for so many centuries?
Much, apparently, depends on the intonation with which we read this tale...
Any folk tale is a concentrate of wisdom, and it is not for nothing that it shows the forces and virtues that evoke in us the desire for life, the desire to rejoice, the desire to multiply our gifts. The Golden Egg is a gift from God that is given to a person at birth. The gift is associated with this internal state when you cannot help but do what you are given to do: when you must give to people what is given to you, and make their world cleaner, better, more beautiful, brighter. The gift is impossible not to realize. By any means, a person will still find how to do it. If his job, for example, involves paperwork, but he has the gift of a warm heart, such a person cannot help but help. He will find places, find areas where he can apply himself. And each of us has this gift, and it is very important to discover it, to find our calling, our purpose in this life. Some people are given the talent of acting to give people certain states and experiences, some are given the gift of playing music in order to inspire spirituality, for others the gift of prayer is a special gift. If your gift is not developed, it will first begin to destroy the woman herself, making her less happy.
And I would also like to touch on the topic of the gift of motherhood. A child is also an image of the golden egg that is given to the family. And there is no need to hit him with spoons, hanging on this or that model of education. We know what this can lead to - the egg can break. This often happens when parents do not see children as children. A child, of course, must, first of all, simply be loved, and if we want to develop his talents, we first need to carefully, carefully look at him, observe what he loves, what his mood is, what desires and abilities, what his purpose is in our life. kind, why was it given to us?
A child is a golden egg from which it is important to create a unique work of art that is organic to his inner nature. By being overly protective and tightly controlling a child, we will never help him open up and will destroy all the good that is in him, and if we find the key to his heart, our baby will shine with happiness.
Interviewed by Margarita Yakunina
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I have long been interested in the meaning of the fairy tale "Ryaba the Hen", but it turns out there is...
Famous children's fairy tale:
Once upon a time there lived Grandfather and Baba. And they had Chicken Ryaba. The hen laid an egg. Yes, not simple, but golden. Grandfather beat and beat, but did not break. Baba beat and beat, but she didn’t break it. The mouse ran, waved its tail - the egg fell and broke. Grandfather is crying, Baba is crying, and the Chicken is cackling: “Don’t cry, Grandfather, don’t cry, Baba. I will lay you another egg - not a golden one, but a simple one.”
A familiar fairy tale?
Now let's check ourselves:
- Grandfather and Baba wanted to break an egg?
- If you wanted to, then why did you cry when it broke?
- Why didn’t Grandfather and Baba pawn the shells at the pawnshop if they were gold?
- What was in the testicle when it broke?
- How often have you thought about the situation of a fairy tale when telling it to a child?
- Why do you tell certain fairy tales if they are always full of contradictions?
- What do you expect from reading this fairy tale?
Moral: often, when communicating with a child, we do not think about what we are really doing. And then we wonder why he grows up like this when we raised him completely differently. You need to be especially careful with fairy tales. There is not a single fairy tale that does not carry an extremely POWERFUL psychological meaning (most often in a fairy tale there is not even one “second bottom”, but three or four). Moreover, the information contained in fairy tales carries messages that have a much greater impact than all the words spoken directly to the child. Why do you think there is even such a direction in psychology as fairy tale therapy? Precisely because a fairy tale can have a colossal influence on the development, attitudes and worldview of a child. Are you familiar with the meaning and “message” of the fairy tales that you tell your child?
" So, about Ryaba.
Fairy tale - always metaphorical model Cosmos (not Cosmos in the literal sense, but in the sense of Life, the Universe). It carries knowledge about how the world works and how one should behave in it - again in a metaphorical form.
Let's move on to Ryaba's analysis.
Grandfather and Baba - model family relations, but not with information about gender relations (then there would be a young family), but with information about All People Living Together. They have some resources, experience, knowledge. In particular, they have chicken. They fully expect predictable actions from her: she must lay eggs. But suddenly the chicken lays not an ordinary egg, but a golden one. What does this mean? Firstly, life itself decides when and what surprises to present to us. And this does not depend either on status, or on superstitions, or on the person. There is a place for accidents in life. The Golden Egg is here as a chance, as an opportunity, as an Event. But old people, being fearful, THE FIRST THING THEY TRY TO DO WITH THE UNKNOWN IS TO DESTROY. Because new things are always scary. (After all, you could lay an egg and see what hatches from it, for example). And then the Mouse appears. Very often in fairy tales the mouse symbolizes Chance, the Hand of God, Fate. The mouse takes away from the old people (All People) what they do not know how to use. Therefore, Grandfather and Baba begin to cry.
But what does Life answer to this? Don’t cry - well, you’ve missed the Chance now, (golden egg), but I’ll give you a simple one (that is, even though you’re not ready for something new right now, the resources that you had haven’t gone anywhere, the end of the world with the loss of a chance did not occur).
Among other things, in the original version of this tale there is a continuation, in which it is reported that when some fifth or tenth relatives heard this story, someone unexpectedly broke the tub, spilled water, and so on. This suggests that events in one person affect the entire environment.
Now let’s summarize: how much information ABOUT LIFE is hidden in five lines of a fairy tale? And now I just carried out a superficial analysis, according to the main scenario. And with careful attention, usually three or four more topics stand out..."
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From the comments:
"Psychoanalysis of Ryaba." Here is a children's fairy tale about Ryaba, about a mouse, grandfather, eggs, woman. At first glance, it’s complete nonsense, but what would Sigmund Freud say? My grandfather had egg necrosis, oblique hernia and phimosis. And the grandmother was tormented by desire, she wanted sex in her subconscious. And Grandma Ryaba asked: “Understand me like a woman, a woman. So that my grandfather climbs on me at night, bring him a prosthetic ball. Made of silicone, so that it’s like a pear, otherwise you’ll go like Bush’s legs!” Ryaba got smart with a prosthesis and gave birth to an egg from gold. In short, complete bullshit: the grandfather walks around jingling his eggs! A mouse looked out of the hole: “Why are you walking around and ringing?” And so that this ringing would die out, she lashed her tail between her legs. Grandfather and grandmother curse the mouse - an infection that immediately deprived them of sex. We learned the moral together: MEN NEED TO TAKE CARE OF EGGS!
This fairy tale is not as simple and primitive as adults sometimes imagine. It truly reflects the model of the Universe. Over the years and since the fairy tale was told to very young children, illiterate grandmothers thought that EGG is a diminutive of EGG. Initially, the Chicken laid an EGG! And size has nothing to do with it, it’s an ostrich egg, and it’s also a quail egg. Testicles are a property of males, that is, males. What children supposedly do not understand is not entirely true; through fairy tales, a child receives information on an unconscious level about his family, his people, his homeland, etc. at the archetypal level.
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Russian fairy tale “Ryaba Hen” - cosmic calendar
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.N. Toporov attributes the plot to Russian folk tale“Ryaba the Hen,” in which the beginning of the world is represented in the form of an egg, goes back to the most ancient mythological and astronomical religious Russian tradition.
To properly understand the depth storyline, embedded in this fairy tale by the millennia-old wisdom of the Russian people, let us consider its key terms.
The term “star-” in the words “old man” and “old woman” in Russian means the antiquity of events, equal to cosmic - stellar. Therefore star - lit. old, that is, “star”. The suffixes -ik and -ukha denote male and female persons, respectively.
The term “Chicken” is an ornithomorphic embodiment of the goddess Mokosh, who personifies the Universe and Time and exercises power over them.
The term “Ryaba” is formed using the suffix -b(a) of nouns denoting the process of movement (request, threshing, friendship, marriage, wedding, etc.), but in the Old Russian language there were much more of these words, and they were formed mainly from nouns." This also includes the word “fate”, which denotes one of the spheres controlled by the goddess Makosh. Fate - from judge + -ba; Wed Russian last fate will judge. And the first part of the word “Ryaba” comes from the ancient Russian verb “ryat” (ryast, ryatat), denoting plurality, abundance, brightness. Compare Russian ryasnym “decoration, necklace”, ryasnym “thick, hanging in thick clusters”, ryasnym “row, low, string of necklace, beads”, ryasnym-ryasnym “visibly-invisibly”, the stars look low, clear and ryasno. Thus, Ryaba is space, flickering and rippling with its multitude of stars. And the full name Chicken Ryaba stands for “space-Makosh, twinkling with many stars.”
The egg is an extremely common and well-known symbol of the world - its beginning and end.
The term “mouse” is the oldest sacred term. It has been known to almost all nations since time immemorial. What is evidenced by the invariability of the word “mouse”: Ukrainian. mish, bulg. mish, Serbohorv. mish, slovenian. mm, gen. n. mni, Czech., Slvts. mu, Polish mysz, v.-luzh., n.-luzh. mу. Indo-European base on consonant: Old Indian. mьs- m. “mouse”, new-pers. mь, Greek m. “mouse, muscle”, lat. mьs, alb. mi “mouse”, d.-v.-s. mys - the same, Armenian. mukn “mouse, muscle”; other ind. mсsati, musati, musnдti “steals”.
From “mouse” the name of the Milky Way is derived - Mouse Trail. According to popular belief, the Milky Way, like the rainbow, is the road along which the soul goes to the next world. Wed. lit. Paыkciu kлlias, Paыkciu tгkas “milky way”, lit. “bird road, path”, English-German. kaurat - the same, in fact, “cow path”. Linguist Trubachev, commenting on M. Vasmer’s dictionary, adds that “most likely, this is one of the oldest Indo-European taboo names for animals - *mьs, actually, “gray” - akin to the words fly, moss.”
According to ancient Russian legends, the Milky Way was formed by milk flowing from the teats of the Cow Zemun (Makoshi) and the Goat Sedun (Satan). Makosh generally has three dimensions: the first is Makosh herself, as a judge, as the ruler of eternity and the Universe, space and time. The second is Makosh, equal to Living Water, Alive, Share, Srecha. The third is Makosh, equal to Dead Water, Mara, Nedolya, Nesrecha. In general, Mokosh’s influence on the world is as follows: within Mokosh-eternity, Mokosh-Zhiva gives birth to the world anew, and after the cycle of life, Mokosh-Mara takes the world into the womb of death.
The last essence of Mokosh - death - is the MOUSE. And the tail that the mouse waved and broke the egg is the end of the period (code, era, etc.).
From what has been said, one can see the meaning of the cosmic Russian fairy tale, which in simple words can be expressed as follows: in the power of Mokosh are both the birth of the world and its death; the souls of the Russians, who have joined the stars, are also in the power of Mokosh and can receive a new incarnation from her - in the form of a simple egg, that is, earthly life.
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