JURATE AND KASTYTIS:

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JURATE AND KASTYTIS

• Similarities with Homers legend

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Keywords

• Place of legends
• The sea
• Nymph Calipso and mermaid Jurate
• Loved mortal hero passionately
• Were the sea Goddesses
• Underwent fatal love
• Odysseus and Kastytis
• Endurance, courageous, mortal
• Gods were
• Vengeance, jealousy, powerful

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The Goddess Jurate lived in a beautiful amber
palace in the bottom of the Baltic sea. Jurate
ruled the sea and all of the sea-life.
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• The immortal Goddess Jurate fell in love with
  the handsome young fisherman Kastytis

Sculpture by Nijole Gaigalaite, 1961, Palanga,
Lithuania
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The father of all Gods Thunder-god Perkunas
became furious and punished lovers. Kastytis
was killed by Perkunas and Jurate mourns him to
this day.
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To Lithuanians, the small, tear shaped pieces
of amber are the tears of Jurate, 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 Jurate ir Kastytis

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