| Lots of people saw him off
and shared their strength with him. So they helped him defeat the dragon
and save the Sun. His journey lasted for three seasons: summer, autumn
and winter. He found the dragon’s castle and they started to fight. They
fought for days and finally the dragon was killed.
Powerless and wounded, the
young man set the Sun free. The Sun rose in the sky cheering up all the
people and filling them with joy. The nature revived, the people got happy,
but the young man couldn’t live to see spring coming. The warm blood from
his wounds dropped on the snow. While the snow was melting white flowers,
called snowdrops, messengers of the spring, were appearing out of the snow.
Even his last drop of blood dripped out in the immaculate snow. And he
died.
Since then the young people
have been knitting two little tassels: a white one and a red one. At the
beginning of March, they offer this amulet to the girls they love… Red
means love for everything that is beautiful. It reminds us of the colour
of the brave young man’s blood. White symbolizes the pureness and health
of the snowdrops, the first flowers that appear in spring.
|
