THE IMAGE OF A DEER (SAG, QWAZ / ĞÆWANZ) IN THE OSSETIAN NART EPIC

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Home Editorial board Publication ethics Current Information Archive Peer review guidelines Contacts Address: Pr. Mira, 10, Vladikavkaz, 362040, RNO-A, Russia E-mail: soigsi@mail.ru	DOI: 10.46698/q6736-8363-4852-z THE IMAGE OF A DEER (SAG, QWAZ / ĞÆWANZ) IN THE OSSETIAN NART EPIC Darchieva, Svetlana V. Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 38 (77). Abstract: The features of animistic representations are found in the traditional culture of many peoples and are included in the zoomorphic code of the culture of one or another ethnic group. The images of animals in national folklore have characteristics that make it possible to judge their originality and include them in the conceptual field of “ethnic cultural code”. The deer is one of the fundamental images of the zoomorphic code of the Ossetian culture, as well as a symbolic figure in the visual arts of the Scythians and Alans, the most important element of the animal style. For the ancient nomadic peoples it had not only practical, but also cult significance. In this article, the image of a deer is considered on the material of the Ossetian “Kadags about Narta”. The aim of the study is to clarify and expand the functional characteristics of the specified folklore image using historical and archeological data. When performing the work, a structural and semantic method of folklore text researching was used with elements of a comparative historical and typological study, identifying symbolic and archetypal components. The versatility of the analyzed zoomorphic image is impressive even within the framework of a single folklore genre, where the deer appears both as a desired hunting trophy and as a cult sacrificial animal, an assistant or guide, the embodiment of astral characters or the container of the soul of an epic hero. The study revealed that the concept of deer in the Ossetian epos differs from those in Christian culture (Slavic, Georgian, Hungarian, etc.) and dates back to the early Middle Ages. Traits of genealogical legends about the ancestor deer are found in the Ossetian epic, and the bipolarity of the folklore image once again emphasizes its archaism. Keywords: folklore, epos, Ossetian Nartiada, kadag, deer, zoomorphic code, symbol + References 1. Rybakov, B.A. Yazychestvo drevnikh slavyan [Paganism of the Ancient Slavs]. Moscow, Akademicheskii Proekt, 2013. 640 p. 2. Salagaeva, Z.M. (comp.) Osetinskoe narodnoe tvorchestvo. V 2 tt. Izd. 2-e dopolnennoe [Ossetian Folk Art. In two vols. The 2nd suppl. ed.]. Vladikavkaz, Ir, 2007, vol. 1. 719 p. (in Ossetian) 3. Grakov, B.N. Skify. Nauchno-populyarnyi ocherk [Scythians. Popular Science Essay]. Moscow, Moscow State University, 1971. 200 p. 4. Gutiev, K.Ts. (comp.) Skazaniya o Nartakh. V 5 tt. [Legends of the Narts; in 5 vols]. 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