The Mistress of the Copper Mountain
Хозяйка медной горы
Ringkasan
Nyonya Gunung Tembaga adalah makhluk legendaris para penambang Ural, penguasa Pegunungan Ural, pelindung penambang dan pemilik kekayaan bawah tanah yang tersembunyi.
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain is a legendary being of the Ural miners, mistress of the Ural Mountains, patroness of miners and owner of hidden underground riches.
Kisah dan tradisi
Nyonya Gunung Tembaga, juga disebut Gadis Malakit (Malakhitnitsa), adalah makhluk legendaris para penambang Ural, penguasa Pegunungan Ural di Rusia dan tokoh mitologi Slavia serta dongeng Rusia. Dalam cerita ia tampil sebagai perempuan muda sangat cantik bermata hijau bergaun malakit, atau sebagai kadal. Ia dianggap pelindung penambang dan pemilik kekayaan bawah tanah yang dapat mengizinkan atau mencegah penambangan di tempat tertentu. "Gunung Tembaga" adalah tambang Gumyoshevsky, tambang tertua di Ural, kini di kota Polevskoy. Ia menjadi terkenal lewat kumpulan kisah Ural karya Pavel Bazhov, Kotak Malakit. Ia memerintah kadal-kadal gunung dan dapat menjelma kadal atau ular. Orang yang melihatnya jatuh di bawah pengaruhnya; ia baik kepada orang baik dan pengrajin terampil, membantu mereka menemukan permata dan emas, tetapi bila syaratnya dilanggar orang itu kehilangan keberuntungan dan keterampilan, bahkan bisa mati. Sebagai tokoh sastra, ia muncul dalam skaz ketiga Pavel Bazhov dari The Malachite Box, "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain", yang pertama kali terbit pada 1936. Dalam teks itu sang tokoh berpakaian malakit dan dikelilingi kadal yang tak terhitung banyaknya, dan ia memperingatkan pemuda itu bahwa menginjak pelayannya akan membawa celaka; ia juga dapat berlari seperti kadal dengan kepala manusia. Ia mencari orang yang tidak takut pada siapa pun, mengancam akan menenggelamkan tembaga di Gumeshki, dan memuji pemuda yang tidak tergiur kekayaannya; tambang itu kemudian menyusut dan terendam, dan orang berkata sang Nyonya marah karena tiang-tiang dipasang di gereja. Menurut kepercayaan yang dicatat, perempuan tidak turun ke tambang karena itu wilayah sang Nyonya, dan anak-anak diajari agar tidak berteriak di dekat batu karena ia tidak menyukai suara keras. Ia juga dapat disebut Nyonya Gunung atau Ibu Gunung; dalam banyak dongeng ia dianggap sama dengan Azovka. Ada hipotesis bahwa ia mewakili Venus, karena tembaga setempat dicap dengan lambang Venus.
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain, also the Malachite Maid (Malakhitnitsa), is a legendary being of the Ural miners, ruler of Russia's Ural Mountains and a figure of Slavic myth and Russian tales. Tales show her either as a lizard or as a lovely young woman with green eyes, dressed in malachite. Miners saw her as their patroness and as owner of hidden underground wealth who could allow or forbid mining in particular places. "The Copper Mountain" is the Gumyoshevsky mine, the oldest in the Urals, now in the town of Polevskoy. She became famous through Pavel Bazhov's collection of Ural tales, The Malachite Box. She commands the mountain lizards and can take the form of a lizard or a snake. Whoever sees her falls under her spell; she is kind to good people and skilled craftsmen, helping them find gems and gold, but if her conditions are broken the person loses all luck and skill and may even die. As a literary figure she features in Pavel Bazhov's The Malachite Box, in the third skaz, which came out in 1936. In that text she wears malachite and is surrounded by countless lizards, and she warns the young man that crushing her servant will bring trouble; she can also run like a lizard with a human head. She looks for someone who fears nobody, threatens to sink the copper in Gumeshki, and praises a young man who is not tempted by her riches; the mine later declines and floods, and people say the Mistress was angry because pillars were put up in a church. According to the recorded beliefs, women did not go down into the mine because it was her domain, and children were taught not to shout near the stones because she disliked loud noises. She may also be called the Mistress of the Mountain or the Mountain Mother; in many folktales she is identical with Azovka. One hypothesis holds that she represents Venus, because local copper was branded with the Venus symbol.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Rusia
- Kawasan / Region
- Eropa
- Negara / Country
- Russia
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Spirit
- Habitat
- Mountain
- Kemampuan / Abilities
- Menjelma kadal, Menyembunyikan kekayaan tambang, Membantu penambang
Nama lain / Alternate names
Malakhitnitsa, The Mistress of the Mountain, The Mountain Mother
Tahukah kamu? / Did you know?
Lambang kota Polevskoy menampilkan Nyonya Gunung Tembaga sebagai kadal emas.
The coat of arms of Polevskoy shows the Mistress of the Copper Mountain as a golden lizard.