Poland - My legend, Marene

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Comenius School Project

Legends of My Town

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Marene

At the dawn of time, many people died at sea due to human anger, revenge and greed. People killed each other, filling water, which should give life, with crimson.

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One morning Zeus, who loved to watch the solar disc emerging from the waves, saw the sea littered with wrecks of ships and stained with human blood. He got very upset about it because they spoiled the peace and harmony of the waters. He summoned Poseidon and ordered him to restore order in the waters.

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Poseidon created the

Water defender, who he called

Marene, which is the Latin name of the

sea. She was made of his

saliva, a very rare

underwater plant called

Integritat, the hair of Athena

and Aphrodite’s tears.

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Marene was a very beautiful

creature. Her skin was pearly shade

that glowed in the dark. She was

slim and had delicate facial

features. Her eyes shone like

diamonds, and her hair was so

long that it covered Marene during her sleep.

Marene looked like a human

woman but she had a membrane

between her fingers and a blue

hue of hair.

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She smelled of sea water and

resin. Marene’s skin was very thin

and prone to injury, which is

why Zeus made, especially for her,

a cover of sea plants hard like

steel. Now, the Defender of the

Seas and Oceans always put it on in

the morning and nothing could hurt

her anymore.

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Marene loved chatting with animals and

people, laughing brightly and

shaking her hair. She was very

sociable and able to get out

tactfully of any situation. She

could do many things singing sea shanties at the same time.

She was a bit scatterbrained and her cave,

densely planted with different

types of sea plants was often

in a mess.

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Marene loved collecting pearls, beautiful stones and amber.

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All the Greek gods loved her honesty, gentleness and simplicity. Hermes was so enchanted with her beauty and goodness, that he wanted to marry her. Zeus, however, did not agree on it because she was to focus solely on purifying water from evil.

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Marene’s unusual abilities

amazed everyone who heard about

them. Poseidon gave her strength to sink ships with

a crew that benefited from

killing people. He thought that his

idea was very brilliant and

effective so he was very

surprised when Marene, horrified

with the very thought of killing people, proposed

a different solution.

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Every time the two hundredth man

died on the board of a ship, she was to surface and tear a

hair out. Then all the men on the ship turned into the

gentlest and smartest creatures

in the world- women. Poseidon,

who initially was not happy with the fact that Marene did not like his idea, quickly

realized that the next murders would

not improve the situation in the

waters. In the end, he agreed with Marena’s idea.

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Since then, thanks to Marene, men on the ships sometimes turned into women during their deadly struggles. Men’s oily hair with bald patches were replaced with tasteful hairstyles, rags turned into beautiful dresses and knives and guns, in the blink of an eye, were converted to embroidered fans.

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Fighters, out of the sudden, began to smile gracefully and compliment other women's clothing. Suddenly most people on the ship felt an incredible predilection to jewellery and beautiful fabrics, demanding an immediate change of ship course.

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In such situations Marene always smiled in her characteristic way, and hid in her underwater cave. She knew that if two hundredth person died once again because of the men's anger, the world would have another female crew.

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The End

The Author of The Legend: Urszula Sikora

The Drawings: Sara Redlarska