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DOI: 10.46698/g9433-6999-7248-o

ETIOLOGY OF PATRIARCHAL FAMILY IN OSSETIAN RITUAL TRADITION

Salbiev, Tamerlan K.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 37 (76).
Abstract:
Obviously, in the context of globalization, reliance on tradition, containing in a generalized
form the experience of many generations of ancestors, is one of the fundamental conditions for the
sustainable development of society. From this point of view, when there is a family crisis in modern
society, it is of primary interest how tradition interprets family relations, determines the place
and role of the family in society, and regulates the relations between its members. No wonder that
modern scholars have shown steady interest in this element of the traditional Ossetian culture. The
novelty of the study reveals itself in two ways. On the one hand, for the first time, the main source
of the research was not external descriptions, but the ritual tradition itself, which made it possible
to obtain first-hand information. On the other hand, the article substantiates the need to appeal to
the methods developed by the school of functional ethnology, the founder of which is considered to
be B. Malinovsky. In the framework of the proposed approach, the main goal inevitably becomes the
clarification of the myth underlying the Ossetian patriarchal family, which determines the principles
of its structure and functioning. The main result of the study can be considered the identification of
members of the Ossetian patriarchal family and the rights and obligations assigned to them within
the framework of the Ossetian family ritual, with ritually significant parts of the sacrificial bird,
the distribution of which was strictly regulated. At the same time, their steady connection with the
epic cycle, defined as the «Beginning of the Narts», also reveals itself. In this case, family ritual, in
fact, appears as a form of dramatization of this plot, in which members of the patriarchal family
reproduce the images of certain epic heroes who acted in the era of the creation.
Keywords: Ossetians, patriarchal family, rituals, creation myth, sacrificial bird, epic, dramatization
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