eTwinning project ‘Sign a Folk Tale from my Country’
Lithuanian Legend ‘Jūratė and Kastytis’
(Lithuanian Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)

I want to tell you a legend about Jūratė and Kastytis. Long time ago Perkūnas, the thunder-god, ruled the earth. A goddess - mermaid Jūratė lived under the Baltic Sea in a beautiful amber castle. She ruled the sea and all of the sea-life. A story about the immortal goddess who had fallen in love with a mortal man.
A young fisherman named Kastytis was disturbing the peace as he was catching a lot of fish. Jūratė decided to punish him and restore the peace. When she took a better look at Kastytis, Jūratė fell in love with all her heart. They spent some happy time in the castle, but Perkūnas, the thunder-god, found out that the immortal goddess had fallen in love with a mortal man. He became furious and struck the amber castle and killed Kastytis.
It exploded into millions of pieces. Then Jūratė was chained to either the ruins or a rock on the seafloor by Perkūnas. According to legend, that is why pieces of amber come ashore after a storm on the Baltic Sea.

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