Talas (deity)

Talas (Albanian definite form: Talasi) is a sea-storm god in Albanian mythology and folklore.[1] A mythical tale concerning the god Talas has been documented in the early 20th century from the Shala region in northern Albania.[2]

Name

The Albanian theonym Talas may be of Ancient Greek or Pre-Greek origin (cf. Θάλασσα Thálassa, "sea"). The word talas means "wave" in Albanian, synonymous with valë.[3] The word θάλασσα, with its prenasalized variant δαλάγχαν, is typically Pre-Greek.[4]

Myth

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According to a mythical tale from the Shala region, as the wife of the highest god was soaring over the seas to delight in the sight of the order which her husband's wisdom had created, the god Talas noticed her. She was so beautiful that no other goddess could match her. So the god Talas went after the wife of the highest god and as soon as he reached her, he raped her through the use of brute force. Afterwards the wife of the highest god, despite being above all the other goddesses, decided to take her own life due to the desecration she suffered,[note 1] but only after telling her husband what she had been through. So she stepped before her husband, and immedatelly after reporting what happened, she seized a weapon and stretched herself as a corpse before the highest of the gods. Because of that horrible suicide, but more than that, because of the defilement which his wife had suffered from the god Talas, the highest god swore an oath to take vengeance on the god who did that disgrace to him. After some time the highest god accomplished his revenge by hitting Talas with one of his cruel thunderbolts that tore him to pieces, after which his corpse would have emitted a stormy wind that no one could approach, so his whole body was buried in the ground. The god Talas did not smell like humans, but rather more pleasant. Hence the interpretation that he was the god of the sea-storm or the god of the storm surge.[7]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Talas had attacked and desecrated her in a shameful manner, so that in future she could no longer be seen among the others.[5] Note that besa and nderi (honour) are of major importance in Albanian customary law as the cornerstone of personal and social conduct.[6]

Citations

  1. ^ Ajeti 1982, p. 100; Poghirc 1987, p. 179; Elsie 2001, p. 249; Bane 2016, p. 306.
  2. ^ Lambertz 1922, pp. 47, 146–148
  3. ^ Ajeti 1982, pp. 38, 100
  4. ^ Beekes 2009, p. 530
  5. ^ Lambertz 1922, pp. 47, 146–148
  6. ^ Gawrych 2006, p. 115
  7. ^ Lambertz 1922, pp. 47, 146–148

Bibliography

  • Ajeti, Idriz (1982). Studije iz istorije albanskog jezika. Akademija nauka i umetnosti Kosova.
  • Bane, Theresa (2016). Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9505-4.
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2009). Beek, Lucien van (ed.). Etymological Dictionary of Greek. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-32186-1.
  • Elsie, Robert (2001). A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology and Folk Culture. London: Hurst & Company. ISBN 1-85065-570-7.
  • Gawrych, George (2006). The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874–1913. London: IB Tauris. p. 36. ISBN 9781845112875.
  • Lambertz, Maximilian (1922). Albanische Märchen (und andere Texte zur albanischen Volkskunde). Wien: A. Hölder.
  • Poghirc, Cicerone (1987). "Albanian Religion". In Mircea Eliade (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 1. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co. pp. 178–180.

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