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JŪRATĖ AND KASTYTIS :. Similarities with Homer’s legend. Keywords. Place of legends : The sea Nymph Calipso and mermaid Jūratė : Loved mortal hero passionately W ere the sea Goddesses Under went fatal love Odysseus and Kastytis : E ndurance , courage ous , mortal Gods were: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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JŪRATĖ AND KASTYTIS:
Similarities with Homer’s legend
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Place of legends:• The sea
Nymph Calipso and mermaid Jūratė:• Loved mortal hero passionately• Were the sea Goddesses• Underwent fatal love
Odysseus and Kastytis:• Endurance, courageous, mortal
Gods were:• Vengeance, jealousy, powerful
Keywords
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The Goddess Jūratė lived in a beautiful amber palace in the bottom of the Baltic sea.
Jūratė ruled the sea and all of the sea-life.
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The immortal Goddess Jūratė fell in love with the handsome young fisherman Kastytis
Sculpture by Nijolė Gaigalaitė, 1961, Palanga, Lithuania
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The father of all Gods – Thunder-god Perkūnas became furious and punished lovers.
Kastytis was killed by Perkūnas and Jūratė mourns him to this day.
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To Lithuanians, the small, tear – shaped pieces of amber are the tears of Jūratė, as clear and pure as her fatal love.
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In 1937, at the International Graphic Art Exhibition in Paris, artist Vaclovas Rataiskis-Ratas was awarded the prix d'honeur for his woodcut illustrations of Jūratė ir Kastytis
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