Sirin
Slavic · numen · modern collection · Recorded classification
The Greek siren arrives in Rus by way of Byzantium and changes function on the way: the classical siren sings sailors onto rocks, and the Slavic Sirin sings a hearer into forgetting the world, which is a religious danger rather than a maritime one. The record keeps the distinction. She is entered separately from Alkonost, and not as an alias or a variant of her, because the tradition itself keeps them separate and paints both in the same picture.
Domains
- sorrow
- temptation
Relations
- companion: AlkonostReciprocal of the edge on the Alkonost record, and carrying the same caveat: a grouping in the iconography, not a meeting in a story.Reference treatment of the three bird-maidens as a symbolic triad of the Slavic tradition. (secondary)
- companion: GamayunThird of the triad.Reference treatment of the three bird-maidens as a symbolic triad of the Slavic tradition. (secondary)
Sources
- Sirin is the bird-woman of Russian folklore with the head of a woman and the body of an owl, associated with sorrow and with temptation.: Reference treatments of Sirin and of the Slavic bird-maidens. (secondary)