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DOI: 10.23671/VNC.2020.74.58008

THE FRAGMENTS OF THE ANCIENT IRANIAN MYTHOLOGICAL TRADITION AND THE SPECIFICITY OF THEIR REFLECTION IN THE OSSETIAN LITERATURE

Mamieva, Izeta V.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 35 (74).
Abstract:
At the level of the motivational and figurative structure of the text, the originality of reflection of
the ancient Iranian mythological fragments representations is considered in the number of Ossetian
literature pieces of different genre affiliations. The comparative and semiotic methods of analysis are
used, which allow revealing the deep layer of mythological structures and the early senses implicitly
laid in them. The semantics and functionality of the act of peacemaking and anthropomorphization
of the world axis are investigated. From the philosophical metaphorical point of view there are
considered the archetype of the first man, other constants of mythconsciousness, used by the writers
in their projection to the present. It is concluded that the Ossetian authors are focused mainly on
recreating a three-levelled model of the world, dating back to the Indo-Iranian era of cultural and
historical community. At the same time, the plot-forming role of motives and images, which refers to
the perceiving consciousness to the dual system of world order, is obvious. Thus, new interpretational
approaches contributed to the reconstruction of the ancient Iranian mythological nucleus (dichotomy
of good and evil) in B. Gurzhibekov’s poem («The Enchanted Beauty»); there as in N. Dzhusoity’s
novels-myths «Syrdon’s Tears», M. Bulkaty’s «The Seventh Campaign of Nart Soslan», marked also
the «crossings» with Avestian cosmogony at the level of freedom of choice’s idea of, the importance of
good /evil thought/ word in the arrangement of the world order. Direct associations with the socioethical
postulates of Zoroastrianism are revealed in B. Gusalov’s novel «Flesh from the Flesh» (the
cattleman and his cows’ «voices»). The article proposes to discuss the nature of the designated myth
elements in the literary works of the Ossetian authors: as the result of genetic continuity (the level
of subconscious embodiment) or the secondary / bookish assimilation of the once unified basis of
mythic reasoning.
Keywords: mythology, ancient Iranian foundation, Ossetian literature, model of the universe, axis of the world, anthropomorphism, dualism, mythologeme.
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