Jentil
Ringkasan
Jentil adalah bangsa raksasa berbulu dalam mitologi Basque, pembangun dolmen dan pelempar batu antargunung, yang lenyap ke bumi saat cahaya kelahiran Kristus muncul.
The jentil are a race of hairy giants in Basque mythology, dolmen builders and mountain-to-mountain stone throwers, who vanished into the earth when the light of Christ's birth appeared.
Kisah dan tradisi
Jentil atau jentilak, dari bahasa Latin gentilis, "orang kafir", adalah bangsa raksasa Basque yang dianggap pembangun dolmen dan monumen megalitik lain. Mereka berbulu, begitu tinggi hingga dapat berjalan di laut, dan melempar batu dari gunung ke gunung, yang menjelaskan bongkah batu terpencil dan bahkan permainan pilota; sebagian orang mengaitkan kekalahan Roland di Roncevaux dengan mereka. Mereka menemukan pengolahan logam dan gergaji serta mengajari manusia bertani. Ketika awan bercahaya pertanda kelahiran Kristus (Kixmi) muncul, mereka bersembunyi di bawah dolmen di lembah Arratzaren atau menjatuhkan diri dari gunung; hanya Olentzero yang tersisa dan kini muncul saat Natal. Sekitar selusin legenda "Akhir Kaum Jentil" dikenal sampai Bigorre dan Couserans, dan nama tempat seperti jentilarri dan jentilzulo mengenang mereka. Mereka tampaknya mewakili bangsa Basque pra-Kristen sendiri.
The jentil or jentilak, from Latin gentilis, 'gentile', are a Basque race of giants credited with building dolmens and other megaliths. They were hairy, tall enough to wade in the sea, and threw rocks from mountain to mountain, explaining lone boulders and even the game of pilota; some tied Roland's defeat at Roncevaux to them. They invented metalworking and the saw and taught humans to farm. When a bright cloud heralding Christ's birth (Kixmi) appeared, they hid under a dolmen in the Arratzaren valley or leapt from a mountain; only Olentzero remained and now appears at Christmas. About a dozen 'End of the Gentiles' legends are known as far as Bigorre and Couserans, and place names such as jentilarri and jentilzulo recall them. They seem to stand for the pre-Christian Basques themselves.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Basque
- Kawasan / Region
- Eropa
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Giant
- Habitat
- Mountain
Nama lain / Alternate names
jentilak