Epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the Mari people "Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path"

The article is devoted to the study of cosmogonic narratives of the Mari people. The goal: to identify the epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic Mari epic "Yugorno. Song of the Prophetic Path" against the background of epic works known in the global context. The material...

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Main Author: Galina E. Shkalina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Publishing house "Sreda" 2024-12-01
Series:Этническая культура
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.31483/r-113295
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description The article is devoted to the study of cosmogonic narratives of the Mari people. The goal: to identify the epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic Mari epic "Yugorno. Song of the Prophetic Path" against the background of epic works known in the global context. The materials are both the poetic creation of A. Ya. Spiridonov "Yugorno. Song of the Prophetic Path" and the author's field materials on the multi-level system of concepts reflecting the natural, cultural, social and virtual realities of the past, present and future in the worldview of the Mari people. The work is based on the hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to the study of epic texts using problematic and historical-comparativistic methods. Conclusion: widely popular ideas of people about the world order are reflected in the folk heroic epic as an immanent contradiction between two opposite principles present in the very essence of being (top-bottom, right-left, white-black, etc.). In the Mari poetic creation "Yugorno" the epic features of the creation of the world were expressed not in the harsh antagonism of the hero and the antihero, but in the peaceful competition between the gods-creators of different parts of the Universe, understood by people as good and evil due to the objective duality of the world.
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spelling doaj-art-522644673dcb499ba03163a30b7f439d2025-08-20T02:57:33ZengPublishing house "Sreda"Этническая культура2713-16882713-16962024-12-0164303510.31483/r-113295113295Epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the Mari people "Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path"Galina E. Shkalina0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-6409Mari State UniversityThe article is devoted to the study of cosmogonic narratives of the Mari people. The goal: to identify the epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic Mari epic "Yugorno. Song of the Prophetic Path" against the background of epic works known in the global context. The materials are both the poetic creation of A. Ya. Spiridonov "Yugorno. Song of the Prophetic Path" and the author's field materials on the multi-level system of concepts reflecting the natural, cultural, social and virtual realities of the past, present and future in the worldview of the Mari people. The work is based on the hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to the study of epic texts using problematic and historical-comparativistic methods. Conclusion: widely popular ideas of people about the world order are reflected in the folk heroic epic as an immanent contradiction between two opposite principles present in the very essence of being (top-bottom, right-left, white-black, etc.). In the Mari poetic creation "Yugorno" the epic features of the creation of the world were expressed not in the harsh antagonism of the hero and the antihero, but in the peaceful competition between the gods-creators of different parts of the Universe, understood by people as good and evil due to the objective duality of the world.https://doi.org/10.31483/r-113295Mari peopleYum and Yyncreation of the worldepic featuresgood-evilheroic epic
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Epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the Mari people "Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path"
Этническая культура
Mari people
Yum and Yyn
creation of the world
epic features
good-evil
heroic epic
title Epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the Mari people "Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path"
title_full Epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the Mari people "Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path"
title_fullStr Epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the Mari people "Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path"
title_full_unstemmed Epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the Mari people "Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path"
title_short Epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the Mari people "Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path"
title_sort epic features of the creation of the world in the heroic epic of the mari people yugorno the song of the prophetic path
topic Mari people
Yum and Yyn
creation of the world
epic features
good-evil
heroic epic
url https://doi.org/10.31483/r-113295
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