{"id":12451,"date":"2017-02-08T20:38:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/517192.s.dedikuoti.lt\/en\/?page_id=12451"},"modified":"2017-02-08T20:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:39:58","slug":"legends-amber","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old.amberlita.lt\/en\/about-amber\/legends-amber\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends of Amber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;LEGENDS OF AMBER\u2018S ORIGIN &#8220;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;12436&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong><em>Oh, listen on the evenings,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>When lagoon waves are uneasy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And sprinkle the shore with amber<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The unseen handful of depth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Maironis<\/em><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Nations that knew of amber for many ages wondered what this beautiful gift of nature is and how it originated. Until science explained the truth about amber, nations created various legends and myths basing them to on their living conditions and customs. Some of them reached our times. In those myths the origin of amber was attributed to godly nature as many other natural phenomena that they didn\u2018t understand.<\/p>\n<p>A renowned Roman poet Ovidius rhymed a myth about Phaeton at the beginning of our era and this myths tragic final the origin of amber is explained. According to Ovidius, amber is the tears poured out by the Sun god\u2018s Febus wife Klimena and her daughters when mourning Phaeton\u2019s fate. God wanted to ride his father\u2018s Febus carriage of the Sun, but didn\u2018t know how to control the horses, got too close to the ground and torched it. For this Zeus plunked him to the River of Eridan.<\/p>\n<p>Phaeton\u2019s mother Klimena and his sisters were very sorry for him and wept uncontrollably. They grew into the earth while weeping and turned into trees. Out of those trees sap tears also dripped. They dry out because of the Sun and turned into amber are caught by the river and is sent to the Roman women so they could adorn themselves.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;12438&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Legends about amber were also created in Lithuania. They were born out of beautiful views of the Lithuanian coast and those circumstances how amber got into the hands of people living here. Amber is thrown to the golden Lithuanian coast by the uneasy and deep-breathing Sea. And the more deep and stormy is the breathing, the more amber drops or sometimes big lumps are spread onto the Baltic coast.<\/p>\n<p>This poetic amber\u2018s travel from the depth onto the shore gave birth to a fantastic legend by the people that didn\u2018t know the history of amber. According to the legend, every piece of amber washed out by the sea is the fruit of incredibly noble, passionate and tragic love story. That\u2018s why it\u2018s clear as a teardrop, pure as the love of J\u016brat\u0117 and Kastytis.<\/p>\n<p>This happened long long time ago, when God Perk\u016bnas was the highest God among all Gods and goddess J\u016brat\u0117 lived in amber palace at the bottom of the sea. She was the most beautiful of all goddesses and didn\u2018t know what is human love.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery type=&#8221;image_grid&#8221; images=&#8221;12440,12442&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At Sea, near the mouth of the River \u0160ventoji, a brave fisherman Kastytis was catching fish of J\u016brat\u0117\u2018s underwater kingdom with his fishing net.\u00a0 J\u016brat\u0117 sent mermaids to warn Kastytis not to trouble the Baltic waters and scare the fishes. But the fisherman wasn\u2018t afraid of the goddess\u2018s warnings, disregarded the seductions of the mermaids and kept on throwing his nets into the Baltic. J\u016brat\u0117 fell deeply in love with Kastytis because of his braveness and handsome looks and lured him into the amber palace.<\/p>\n<p>Perk\u016bnas was highly wrathful when he learned that an immortal goddess fell in love with a son of a fisherman. With his lightning he destroyed the amber palace, killed Kastytis and chained J\u016brat\u0117 to the ruins of the palace walls.<\/p>\n<p>Here J\u016brat\u0117 constantly weeps for Kastytis and their unhappy love and is tossed by the waves of the sea. Her wailing is so moving that the ever-cold and calm sea depths start to worry, reel and storm, thus washing the remains of the amber palace destroyed by Perk\u016bnas onto the shore.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny amber pieces are J\u016brat\u0117\u2018s tears, so pure and clear as was pure and chaste her tragic love.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;12444&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In this way is the origin of amber is explained in this Lithuanian legend created many ages ago. Lithuanian poets, composers, painters inspired by it created marvelous creations: Lithuanian poetry classic Maironis wrote a lyric poem \u201eJ\u016brat\u0117 and Kastytis\u201c and the composer J. Gruodis wrote a ballet according to its story. V. Klova wrote a symphonic poem, K. Kaveckas \u2013 a choric poem, painter S. Kazimieraitis created a colorful stained glass on this theme, sculptor N. Gaigalait\u0117 created a beautiful sculptural composition that imagines J\u016brat\u0117 and Kastytis (this bronze creation now stands in Palanga in the fountain at the end of Basanavi\u010dius street close to the sea dunes).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;LEGENDS OF AMBER\u2018S ORIGIN &#8220;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;12436&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Oh, listen on the evenings, When lagoon waves are uneasy And sprinkle the shore with amber The unseen handful of depth Maironis[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Nations that knew of amber for many ages wondered what this beautiful gift of nature is and how it originated. 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