Третият в кладенеца (Календарно- астрономическа основа на мотива)
The tertiary one in the well (Astro-calendrical base of the motif)

Summary/Abstract: The present works suggests an analysis of two Bulgarian folklore songs in which the hero has been lowered down a deep well, his goal be¬ing to bring back water; down there he is swallowed (gorged) by a mythi¬cal serpent like monster (snake, “lamya”, “hala”). The semantics of this song motif are hereby clarified when compared to different episodes of Bulgarian folktales as well as ancient mythopoetical texts (of ved. Trita and avest. Θraētaona). The astro-calendrical base of this motif is tightly connected to the spring-summertime period of invisibility of the Pleiades constellation (nadir = ‘well’).

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