Poached chicken what is the point. "Ryaba Chicken": the hidden meanings of a simple fairy tale. What does this tale tell about?

Hello, dear readers of the "Russian Word" blog!

In a previous article on fairy tales, I wrote that telling fairy tales Is an old Russian custom.

Each of us remembers our childhood when adults told fairy tales, and we asked for more and more new tales. The tale plunges us into a fantastic world full of riddles and secrets. Everything secret, unknown, unknown always attracts ...

But here's what's interesting. Did you know that those fairy tales that we loved to listen to in childhood, and which we now tell our children, are

ADAPTED fairy tales ?!

In fact, in Russian folk unadapted fairy tales hidden ancient ideas of the people about life. All unadapted fairy tales very scary. After reading such a fairy tale, an unprepared person will experience shock at best, and plunge into deep depression at worst.

Reading an unadapted fairy tale, you need to understand that it was created several thousand years ago. Therefore, you need to have at least general idea about the ceremonies and rituals of the ancient Slavs.

For example, our ancestors envisioned life as endless.

It has long been a symbol of the infinity of life egg... The egg is the prototype of all life on earth! By the way, I remembered a question that always baffles me: what happened before - a chicken or an egg? .. Nevertheless, there is always a new life in the egg!

Everyone knows the "unpretentious" tale about the Ryaba Chicken:

Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman. They had a poached chicken. The chicken laid an egg, not a simple one - a golden one. Grandfather beat, beat - did not break. Baba beat, beat - did not break. The mouse ran, waved its tail, the testicle fell and shattered. The grandfather is crying, the woman is crying, and the chicken is cackling: - Don't cry, grandfather, don't cry, woman! I will lay a new egg for you, not a golden one, but a simple one!

I confess I never understood the meaning of this tale! Why would a grandfather and a woman suddenly start crying, kill themselves over a broken testicle ?! They themselves wanted to break it! And by the way, why did they want to break it ?!

The meaning of this story will become clear if you read the unadapted text of the tale. Here it is:

There lived a grandfather and a woman. And they had hazel hen, old lady.

She laid an egg in a senz on a shelf, on rye straw. Wherever the mouse came from, it cracked this testicle.

The grandfather is crying, the woman is grieving, the magpie has broken his leg, the tyn is loose, the oak has knocked off the leaves.

Popova's daughter went to fetch water, broke the buckets, came home without water. Popadya asks: "Why are you a daughter, you came without water?" She said:

What grief is upon me, what great is upon me! An old man and an old woman lived. And they had a hazel-hazel hen, an old old woman. She laid an egg in a senz on a shelf, on rye straws. Wherever the mouse came from, it cracked this testicle. The grandfather is crying, the woman is grieving, the magpie has broken his leg, the tyn is loose, the oak has knocked off the leaves. And I went for water, broke the buckets, broke the rocker. Even though you, priest, leave the pies out the window in grief!

Hit with grief and threw the pies out the window. The pop goes: "What are you, the priest, are you doing ?!" And she replies:

What bitterness for me, what great for me! An old man and an old woman lived. And they had a hazel-hazel hen, an old old woman. She laid an egg in a senz on a shelf, on rye straws. Wherever the mouse came from, it cracked this testicle. The grandfather is crying, the woman is grieving, the magpie has broken his leg, the tyn is loose, the oak has knocked off the leaves. Our daughter went to fetch water, broke the buckets, broke the rocker. And in grief I left all the pies outside the window. And you, priest, hurt yourself even with grief on the joint!

Pop scattered, but how it hits the jamb! Then he died. They began to bury the priest and celebrate the commemoration.

What a dear testicle! ..

There is also another, even more creepy, version of this story, where the granddaughter, upon learning that the testicle had broken, took and ... hanged herself! Horror!

Today we will talk about the semantic content of the fairy tale "Ryaba Hen".

The tale begins like this: "Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman, and they had a Ryaba chicken ..."

Grandfather and Baba are Someone who was before the disclosure - the development of our Universe, both masculine and feminine. Perhaps this is the Mother of the World, perhaps this is the goddess Makosh, other options can be assumed. One thing is clear that these greatest Essences are the inspirers (those who "create - breathe" some idea into the space around them) of the deployment of our Universe. Ryaba, rippled - always associated with changes, that is, with the movement of life.

The chicken itself is the birth and care of newborns. The Golden Testicle is the Beginning of the Beginnings of our unmanifest Universe. Physicists call it the core of the Universe, esoterics call it the Ring of the Great Glow, believers call it the abode of God. Crying grandfather and woman - tears of non-manifestation - loneliness. In loneliness it is impossible to cognize - to express oneself, there is no one to love, there is no one to live for - to create. In loneliness, the very meaning of this innumerable wealth is lost - life. We get to know ourselves in reflection.

A thought flashed like a mouse tail and the testicle burst - the first "simple" testicle broke and was born - the mystery of creation began! Chicken - testicle - chicken - next generation hen, etc.The first hen "laid", possibly, 12 eggs - the nuclei of the metagalaxies. Each nucleus of the metagalaxy has grown - developed and "laid", possibly, 12 eggs - the nuclei of galaxies. Each nucleus of the galaxy has grown - developed and "laid" 12 eggs - the nuclei of the cosmos. Each core of the cosmos has grown - developed and "laid" 12 eggs - the cores of solar systems. Each solar system grew up - developed and "laid" 12 eggs each - the nuclei of the planets. Naturally, each successive hen lays smaller eggs. This is the breath of God. This is how the universe was created in which we were created. (VD Plykin "Model of the Universe", Shipov GI "Torsion fields", Akimov AE "Secrets of torsion fields" and other sources).

Let us summarize what the Universe is like in a nutshell: the universe with a core inside, 2.metagalaxy with a core inside, 3. a galaxy with a core inside, 4.space with a core inside, 5.the sun with a core inside, 6.planet with a core inside, 7. a man with two control centers, unlike all other formations in the universe - a brain and a heart (an open chain), 8. a cell with a nucleus inside, 9. an atom with a nucleus inside, if you step further deeper into the atom, then there are scientists discovered ... a wave, i.e. there are no more material objects. The entire Universe consists of atoms, which means that the chain is closed from waves of energy. The ring is closed!

So, life is movement and everything that rotates creates torsion fields, torsion fields that connect us with the entire universe. The words of the song become understandable: “so that you are not lost on earth, try not to lose yourself”!

What constituents are we, people, and therefore everything in the universe (because we are all a single whole, "and what is in the small, so in the big"):!. physical (solid) body, 2. The liquid component of our body (blood, lymph, saliva, intercellular fluid, etc.), 3. The gaseous component (air in our body), 4. The electromagnetic field, 5. The thermal field (we live in a certain temperature range), 6. simple atoms, 7. etheric - the light body (it is vital, it is energy - in different sources in different ways). (L.G. Puchko "Dowsing for all")

And all this "house" is guided, more honestly and more accurately, it is learning to lead, our consciousness is the ego. This study gave rise to all stages of social transformations in society from the primitive communal system to (we hope very much) the one with a divine-human consciousness (when a person's brain and heart will become one). And we will return to Eden!

This is my vision of the semantic content of the fairy tale about the chicken Ryaba. And you may have a completely different opinion. Which?

Ryaba chicken

Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman, and they had a Ryaba chicken.
So what is next?

Needless to say, we remember this tale from childhood.

We told, we tell and we will tell children. Why not turn it into a game?

You can tell a fairy tale, show it, act out scenes from the life of a Russian village.

Ryaba Chicken is a Russian folk tale for the smallest children. It tells us that the golden testicle did not bring happiness to the grandfather and the woman, but brought only grief and tears.

What is the meaning of the fairy tale Rippling crust? What did our ancestors want to teach their children and does this fairy tale even make sense? Some claim that the fairy tale "Ryaba Crust" does not and cannot have any meaning. Others conduct long-term research of the tale, in revealing its meaning and content. Still others are found in the text of the tale secret meaning comparing the testicle to the moon and sun. The controversy over the fairy tale "Ryaba Hen" does not subside to this day. Boris Zakhoder believed that "Ryaba Hen" is a fairy tale about human happiness: "Happiness is a golden egg - people beat it this way and that, but the mouse ran with its tail waved ... ".

Ryaba Chicken is a fabulous plot in the East Slavic folklore tradition. The structure of the text of the tale is a chain of repetitions. In the fairy tale "Chicken Ryab", as well as in the group of related cumulative plots with the "mourning" model, each new character expresses his sorrow over the misfortune that has occurred.

Currently, the fairy tale Ryaba Chicken is one of the first fairy tales that parents read to their children. The text used for this is the canonical version of one of the simplified versions of the story "Tales of the Ryaba Chicken"; at the same time, the plot received a "good" ending "- the chicken's promise to demolish a new testicle for grandfather and grandmother instead of a broken one.

Fairy tale Chicken Ryaba (Option 1)

They had a poached chicken.
The chicken laid an egg, not a simple one - a golden one.

Grandfather beat, beat - did not break.
Baba beat, beat - did not break.

“Don’t cry, grandfather, don’t cry, baba: I’ll lay you an egg, not a golden one - a simple one!

Fairy tale Chicken Ryaba(Option 2)

Once upon a time there lived a grandfather and a woman, they had a chicken Ryaba; laid an egg under the floor - motley, sharp, bone-like, tricky! The grandfather beat - did not break, the woman beat - did not break, and the mouse came running and crushed it with its tail. The grandfather is crying, the woman is crying, the hen is dribbling, the gates are creaking, chips are flying from the yard, the top is loose in the hut!

The priest's daughters followed the water, asked the grandfather, asked the woman:

- What are you crying about?

- How can we not cry! - answer the grandfather and the woman. - We have Ryaba chicken; laid an egg under the floor - motley, sharp, bone-like, tricky! The grandfather beat - did not break, the woman beat - did not break, and the mouse came running and crushed it with its tail.

As the priest's daughters heard this, out of great grief they threw the buckets on the ground, broke the rocker arms and returned home empty-handed.

- Ah, mother! - they say to the priest. - You know nothing, you know nothing, but in the world there is a lot: a grandfather and a woman live for themselves, they have a chicken Ryaba; laid an egg under the floor - motley, sharp, bone-like, tricky! The grandfather beat - did not break, the woman beat - did not break, and the mouse came running and crushed it with its tail. That is why the grandfather cries, the woman cries, the chicken clucks, the gates creak, chips fly from the yard, the top of the hut staggers. And we, going for water, threw the buckets, broke the rocker arms!

At that time, the priest was crying, and the chicken cluck, immediately out of great grief knocked over the dough and scattered all the dough on the floor.

Pop came with a book.

- Oh, father! - the priest says to him. - You know nothing, you know nothing, but in the world there is a lot: a grandfather and a woman live for themselves, they have a chicken Ryaba; laid an egg under the floor - motley, sharp, bone-like, tricky! The grandfather beat - did not break, the woman beat - did not break, and the mouse came running and crushed it with its tail. That is why the grandfather cries, the woman cries, the chicken clucks, the gates creak, wood chips fly from the yard, the top is staggering in the hut! Our daughters, going to fetch water, threw the buckets, broke the rocker arms, and I kneaded the dough and, out of great grief, scattered everything on the floor!

Pop drowned out, burned, tore his book to shreds.

The sacred meaning of the tale
It seems - well, what nonsense: beat, beat, and then a mouse, bang - and the fairy tale is over. What is this all for? Indeed, only to children who are unintelligent to tell ...

This tale is about Wisdom, about the Image of the Universal Wisdom, contained in the Golden Egg. Not everyone and not at any time is given to cognize this Wisdom. Not everyone can handle it. Sometimes you have to settle for the simple wisdom contained in the Simple Egg.

When you tell this or that fairy tale to your child, knowing its hidden meaning, then the Ancient Wisdom contained in this fairy tale is absorbed “with mother’s milk”, on the subtle plane, on the subconscious level. Such a child will understand many things and relationships without unnecessary explanations and logical confirmation, figuratively, with the right hemisphere, as modern psychologists say.

In the fairy tale "Ryaba Chicken" the main character is the chicken. According to the plot of the fairy tale, she lives in the house of her grandfather with a woman. One day, a chicken presented its owners with a surprise - she laid a golden egg. At first, my grandfather tried to break this egg - nothing came of it. Then the woman began to beat the golden egg, but she could not break it either.

At some point, a mouse was running by. She touched the egg with her tail, the egg fell and broke. Because of this, the grandfather and the woman were upset and began to cry. And the chicken began to calm them down and promised to lay another egg, but this time a simple one.

This is summary fairy tales.

The main meaning of the fairy tale "Ryaba Hen" is that wealth and prosperity, which in the fairy tale is symbolized by the golden egg, may end up in the hands of a person unexpectedly, by chance. But you still need to be able to dispose of such unexpected wealth. The grandfather and the woman could not do this (they beat them, they beat them - they did not break them). And at the same time, wealth is an unstable thing, today it is, and tomorrow it is gone. It is no coincidence that in the fairy tale wealth is presented in the form of an egg, which has a rounded shape and is capable of rolling at any time.

Any accident can deprive a person of material wealth. In a fairy tale, such a random factor is the mouse, which touched the egg with its tail, it fell and broke. The tale also teaches us that a happy accident is not a frequent moment in Everyday life and we must have time to take advantage of such an opportunity in a timely manner. No wonder the chicken, calming the grandfather and grandmother, said that the next egg would not be golden, but simple. That is, speech already underway about the usual, modest family wealth.

In the fairy tale, I liked a chicken that is trying to help its owners make their lives more prosperous. And when this does not work out, he calms them down in every possible way, promising a modest but stable prosperity.

What proverbs fit the fairy tale "Ryaba Chicken"?

Poverty cries, wealth rides.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Luck does not come by itself: her work leads her by the hand.

I have long been interested in the meaning of the fairy tale "Ryaba Chicken", but it turns out to be there ...

Famous children's fairy tale:

Once upon a time there was Grandfather and Baba. And they had Ryaba Chicken. The Hen took the testicle. Yes, not simple, but golden. Grandfather beat and beat - did not break. Baba beat and beat - did not break. The mouse ran, waved its tail - the testicle fell and broke. Grandfather is crying, Baba is crying, and Hen clucks: "Don't cry, Grandfather, don't cry, Baba. I'll lay another egg for you - not golden, but simple."

A familiar tale?

Now let's check ourselves:

- Grandfather and Baba wanted to break an egg?

- If you wanted, why did you cry when it broke?

- Why did Grandfather and Baba not put the shells in the pawnshop, if they are gold?

- What was in the testicle when it broke?

- How often did you think about the situation of a fairy tale when you were telling it to a child?

- Why do you tell these or those fairy tales if they are always full of contradictions?

- What do you expect from reading this tale?

Moral: often, when communicating with a child, we do not think about what we are really doing. And then we wonder why he grows up like this when we raised him in a completely different way. You have to be especially careful with fairy tales. There is not a single fairy tale that does not carry an extremely POWERFUL psychological meaning (most often in a fairy tale there is not even one "second bottom", but three or four). Moreover, the information contained in fairy tales carries messages that have a much greater impact than all the words spoken directly to the child. Why do you think there is even such a direction in psychology as fairy tale therapy? Precisely because a fairy tale is capable of exerting a tremendous influence on the development, attitudes and worldview of a child. Are you familiar with the meaning and "message" of those fairy tales that you tell your child?

" So, about Ryaba.

A fairy tale is always a metaphorical model of the Cosmos (not the Cosmos in the literal sense, but in the sense of Life, the Universe). It carries in itself knowledge about how the world works and how one should behave in it - again in a metaphorical form.

Let's move on to Ryaba's analysis.

Grandfather and Baba are a model of family relations, but not with information about the relationship between the sexes (then there would be a young family), but with information about All People Living Together. They have some resources, experience, knowledge. In particular, they have chicken. They quite expect predictable actions from her: she must lay eggs. But suddenly the chicken is laying not a simple egg, but a golden one. What does this mean? First, life itself decides when and what surprises to present to us. And this does not depend on status, or on superstition, or on a person. There is a place for accidents in life. The Golden Egg is here as a chance, as an opportunity, as an Event. But the old people, being fearful, THE FIRST THINGS TRYING TO DO WITH THE UNKNOWN IS TO DESTROY. Because the new is always scary. (After all, one could lay the testicle and see what emerges from it, for example). And then the Mouse appears. Very often in tales, the mouse symbolizes Chance, the Hand of God, Destiny. The mouse takes away from the old people (All People) what they do not know how to use. Therefore, Grandfather and Baba begin to cry.

But what does Life answer them? Don't cry - well, you missed a chance now, (golden testicle), but I will demolish a simple one for you (that is, even though you are not ready for a new one now, the resources that you had have not gone anywhere, the end of the world with the loss of a chance did not come).

Among other things, in the original version of this tale there is a continuation, in which it is reported that when this story was heard by one - fifth - tenth relatives, someone out of surprise broke a bucket, poured water, and so on. This suggests that the events of one person affect the entire environment.

And now let's summarize: how much information about LIFE is hidden in five lines of a fairy tale? And now I just carried out a superficial analysis, according to the main scenario. And with careful attention, three or four more topics are usually highlighted ... "

Do you have an opinion on this tale?

From comments:

"Ryaba's Psychoanalysis". Here is a children's fairy tale about Ryaba, about a mouse, grandfather, eggs, a woman. At first glance, sheer nonsense, but what would Sigmund Freud say? My grandfather had egg necrosis, oblique hernia and phimosis. And the grandmother was tormented by desire, she wanted sex in the subconscious. And grandma Ryaba asked: "Understand me, like a grandmother. So that my grandfather climbed up to me at night, lay his prosthesis eggs. Made of silicone, so that, like a pear, otherwise you’ll go on Bush’s legs!" With a prosthesis, Ryaba nailed it, gave birth to an egg of gold. In short, complete bullshit: the grandfather walks around ringing eggs! A mouse looked out of the mink: "Why are you walking old and ringing?" And so that this ringing died out, she whipped her tail between her legs. Grandfather and grandmother curse the mouse - an infection that they were deprived of sex immediately. Morality we learned together: MEN NEEDED EGGS!

This tale is not as simple and primitive as adults sometimes imagine. It really reflects the model of the universe. Over the years, and since the fairy tale was told to very young, illiterate grandmothers thought that EGG is a diminutive of EGG. Initially, the Chicken laid the EGG! And the size has nothing to do with it, and an ostrich egg, and a quail egg too. Testicles are males, that is, males. The fact that children supposedly do not understand is not entirely true, through fairy tales the child receives information at an unconscious level about his kind, about his people, about his homeland, etc. at the archetypal level.

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Russian fairy tale "Ryaba Chicken" - space calendar
Academician V.N. Toporov attributes the plot to the Russian folk tale"Ryaba Chicken", in which the beginning of the world is presented in the form of an egg, to the most ancient mythological and astronomical religious Russian tradition.

In order to correctly understand the depth of the storyline laid down by the thousands of years of wisdom of the Russian people in this tale, we will consider its key terms.

The term "old" in the words "old man" and "old woman" - in Russian means the antiquity of events, equal to the cosmic - starry. Therefore, star is letters. old, that is, "star". The suffixes -ik and -uha denote males and females, respectively.

The term "Hen" is an ornithomorphic embodiment of the goddess Makosha, who personifies the Universe and Time and exercises power over them.

The term "Ryaba" is formed with the suffix -b (a) "nouns denoting the process of movement (request, threshing, friendship, marriage, wedding, etc.), but in the Old Russian language there were much more of these words, and they were formed, mainly from nouns. " This also includes the word "fate", which denotes one of the spheres ruled by the goddess Makosh. Fate - from judge + -ba; Wed Russian last fate will judge. And the first part of the word "Ryaba" comes from the ancient Russian verb "ryat" (ryat, ryatat), meaning plurality, abundance, brightness. Compare Russian. clearly "jewelry, necklace", cassock "thick, hanging in thick bunches", cassock "row, low, a string of necklaces, beads", crimson-dressy "apparently invisible", the stars look in admission, clearly and distinctly. Thus, Ryaba is a cosmos, twinkling-rippling with many of its stars. And the full name Kurochka Ryaba stands for "space-Makosh, twinkling with many stars."

The egg is an extremely common and well-known symbol of the world - its beginning and end.

The term "mouse" is the oldest sacred term. It has been known in almost all peoples since time immemorial. As evidenced by the invariability of the word "mouse": ukr. mish, bulg. mish, Serbo-Horv. mish, slovenian. mm, genus. n. mni, Czech., slvts. mu, polish. mysz, v.-puddles, n.-puddles mу. Indo-European consonant stem: Old Ind. ms- m. "mouse", new-pers. mь, Greek. m. "mouse, muscle", lat. mьs, alb. mi "mouse", D.-V.-N. mыs - the same, arm. mukn "mouse, muscle"; old-ind. mösati, musati, musnäti “steals”.

From "mouse" the name of the Milky Way is derived - Mouse trail. According to popular belief, the Milky Way is, like the rainbow, the road along which the soul goes to the next world. Wed lit. Paikciu kllias, Paikciu tgkas "Milky Way", lit. "Bird's way, trail", nzh.-German. kaurat - the same, in fact, "cow path". Linguist Trubachev, commenting on M. Vasmer's dictionary, adds that "most likely, this is one of the oldest Indo-European taboo names for animals - * mьs, in fact," gray "- akin to the words fly, moss."

According to ancient Russian legends, the Milky Way was formed by milk flowing from the breasts of the Cow Zemun (Makoshi) and the Goat Sedun (Satan). Makosh generally has three dimensions: the first is Makosh herself, as a judge, as the ruler of eternity and the Universe, space and time. Second - Makosh, equal to Living water, Alive, Share, Srecha. Third - Makosh, equal to Dead Water, Mara, Nedolya, Nesrecha. In general, the influence of Mokosh on the world is as follows: within Mokosh-eternity, Makosh-Zhiva gives birth to the world anew, and after the cycle of life, Makosh-Mara takes the world into the bosom of death.

The last essence of Makosha - death - is the MOUSE. And the tail with which the mouse waved and broke the egg is the end of a period (code, era, etc.).

From what has been said, the meaning of the cosmic Russian fairy tale is also visible, which in simple words can be conveyed as follows: in the power of Mokosh are both the birth of the world and its death; the souls of the Russians who have joined the stars are also in the power of Mokosh and can receive a new incarnation from her - in the form of a simple egg, that is, earthly life.
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So much for a simple fairy tale!