What does the lake bulrush make noise in the world folk folklore?

How often in oral folk art is mentioned such a kind of reed as a lake reed. An example are the magic flutes and pipes in Russian folk tales. And how often their protagonists miraculously turn into a reed lake in order to learn the plan of the enemy or to expose the intruder. Or, on the contrary, he suddenly began to whisper advice to a person in distress, or even transformed into a living army that ruined an insidious enemy.

The Indians linked the lake reeds with the loss of freshness, youth and the beginning of the dry season. Greeks in ancient times, on the contrary, receive from Prometheus the vital principle - fire in hollow reed stems. Residents of the Eastern Mediterranean revered the reed lake as a symbol of monarchical power. The rulers of Palestine, like the Egyptian pharaohs, used reed scepters. Each re-entering the throne, the ruler was obliged during the ritual to let out arrows from all sides of the world, arrows based on reeds. The photo of a reed that surrounds the lake conveys its beauty, which has always been appreciated by people of different nations.

Even in the Azov Sea there are places where the descendants of the "reed Aryans", people of Indo-Aryan origin, still live. After all, for all the rulers of the numerous peoples of India, the reed lake was the material for making the scepter. The priests of the Celts used reeds from cane not only to initiate new worshipers into their ranks, but also to protect themselves from the forces of the underworld. While this reed pipe sounds, the evil guards of the other world remain inactive. This belief was based on the similarity of the deep-rooted reed roots with their notion of the abodes of the lower worlds. Their underground deity Pluto had a connection with the earthly reality through this plant.

This belief has its response in other nations. Even the ancient Slavs in their legends and bylinas resort to the help of a magic flute, which opens all secrets to the one who will play on it. It strengthens communication with other worlds. Ritual means, connecting the inhabitants of houses with heavenly patrons for centuries, most of the peoples living in vast territories, ranging from the northern Irish lands to hot India, were reed roofs.

Christianity, which came to replace the pagans, did not remain on the sidelines and also began to actively use the symbolism of this plant. At the same time attention was drawn to the fact that its thickets have a low position, which symbolizes humility. And coastal and marshy places of reservoirs occupied by them, served as a prototype of modesty and life-giving source, extracting true pure water from bogs. In this important place is the biblical legend of Moses. After all, Pharaoh's sister found him in reed thickets in a reed basket. That's where the salvation came from God's people.

In the eastern lands cane is credited with a symbol of human weakness and unreliability. Even a well-known romance about rustling reeds and bending trees warns a young lady that her lover should not be trusted.