Ondine (mythology)
See also: Ondine
A ondine ( ondin with the masculine) is a spirit of the waters in the Germanic Mythologie (where it is also indicated under the term of Nixe) or Alsatian.
Ondine is a nymph or Naïade. Contrary to the sirens, the nymphs do not attend the sea, but running water, rivers, fountains, and do not have a cut in front. During the summer, they like to be held sitted on curbstone of the fountains, and to comb their long hair with ivory or gold combs. They also like to bathe in the cascades, the ponds, and the rivers, with the favor of the radiant days of summer. It is said that those which have the hair color of gold have large treasures which they keep in their beautiful immersed palates.
One allots the water supply of the fountains to the tears of Ondines, and that Ci is dried up as soon as a fairy feels offended. Thus, it is of habit to leave various offerings near the fountains, such as garlands of flowers, pins or pieces of broken bottle, which are for the fairies of water, of true treasures scintillating and gleaming in water.
Alsatian legend
Ondine is the heroin of an Alsatian legend. With its birth all the fairies of the vicinity are joined together around its cradle and offer to him many qualities. The fairy which is its godmother offers him in particular an exceptional constancy. One day, it was removed by a young lord who succeeds in being made like of it so much so that it refused to leave it to go to see her sick mother. For punishment, its godmother condemned it to always loving the lord no matter what it does. This one, tired of it, made pretense believe it inaccurate. He says that he it would believe only if it were going to fill an enormous vase with the source of Niddeck. After three days to be gone while carrying this weight enormous Ondine exhausted fall into water by filling its vase. The fairy its godmother arrives at her help and to avoid to him continuing to suffer because of the lord of the manor, transforms it into protective nymph of water of Niddeck. Since, the days of storm, one sees it appearing in the vapors of water of the cascade.
Another version of the legend tells that it is a nymph and that it falls in love with a beautiful knight. It is authorized with living with him, but if it is inaccurate for him, it dies, and it is what arrives.
This name is at origin of Ondinisme, homonym indicating a respiratory syndrome, but also a sexual practical .
Artistic evocations
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Ondine , tale of Friedrich of the Mound-Fouqué.
- Ondine , poem of Aloysius Bertrand.
- Ondine , play of Jean Giraudoux.
Musics
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Undine , opera of E.T.A. Hoffmann, on a booklet of the Mound-Fouqué
- Ondin, COp 107 B195 , opera of Antonín Dvořák
- Rusalka, COp 114 B203 , opera of Antonín Dvořák
- Ondine , first movement of the triptych for piano Gaspard of the night of Maurice Ravel (1908)
- Ondine , twentieth prelude for piano of Claude Debussy (1912)
- Undine , Sonata op.167 for Flute and piano of Carl Reinecke
- Ondine , song of the group Eths of the album Teratology.
See too
Related article
- Rusalka, the equivalent of Ondine in Slavic mythology and Vodník the equivalent of the ondins
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