Buyan
Sign in to savethumb|Buyan Island, by Ivan Bilibin (1905) In Russian folklore, Buyan (), sometimes transliterated as Bujan, is a mysterious island in the ocean with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide. The island is found in byliny and skazki. It gained wider recognition after appearing in Alexander Pushkin's The Tale of Tsar Saltan.
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thumb|Buyan Island, by Ivan Bilibin (1905) In Russian folklore, Buyan (), sometimes transliterated as Bujan, is a mysterious island in the ocean with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide. The island is found in byliny and skazki. It gained wider recognition after appearing in Alexander Pushkin's The Tale of Tsar Saltan.
== Description == Buyan is an oceanic island, sometimes described as a paradise. The island of Buyan features in many fairy tales; Koshchei the Deathless keeps his soul of immortality hidden there, secreted inside a needle placed inside an egg in the mystical oak-tree; other legends call the island the source of all weather, generated there and sent forth into the world by the god Perun. Buyan also appears in Alexander Pushkin's Tale of Tsar Saltan.