Alkonost
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The Alkonost is a legendary woman-headed bird in Slavic folklore. Alkonost is more likely an individual character, as was noted in some legends about this bird.[1]
Folklore
The name of the Alkonost came from a
Alkonost makes amazingly beautiful sounds, and those who hear these sounds forget everything they know and want nothing more ever again.
According to folk tales, at the morning of the Apple Feast of the Saviour day, Sirin flies into the apple orchard and cries sadly. In the afternoon, the Alkonost flies to this place, beginning to rejoice and laugh. Alkonost brushes dew from her wings, granting healing powers to all fruits on the tree she is sitting on.[5]
Gallery
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Lubok picture -
Postcard, 1908 -
Viktor Vasnetsov's Sirin (left) and Alkonost (right) Birds of Joy and Sorrow (1896) -
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Alkonosts on frontage of the House of Noble and Peasant Bank in Poltava, Ukraine (1906-1909, burned in 1943, restored in 1948) -
A depiction of the Alkonost, by Ivan Bilibin (1905)
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In popular culture
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- Alkonost is featured in the digital card game Mythgard (2019) as a rare minion in the Dreni faction.
- Croatian singer Nina Kraljić that performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 sings under the name of Alkonost of Balkan. [6]
- Alkonost is a Russian epic folk metal band formed in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russia in 1995.
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Алконост". PR in mythology. Electronic encyclopedia.
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- ISBN 5-7838-1304-4.
- ^ "Nina Kraljić Alkonost of Balkan".
External links
Media related to Alkonost at Wikimedia Commons
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