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Comenius School Project
Legends of My Town
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Marene loved collecting pearls, beautiful stones and amber.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The End
The Author of The Legend: Urszula Sikora
The Drawings: Sara Redlarska