Title of the article:

SACRED SITES OF THE DEMYANSK LAND IN THE CONTEXT OF HERO'S MYTHOLOGY

Author(s):

Elena A. Okladnikova

Information about the author/authors

Elena A. Okladnikova — DSc in History, A. I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, Emb. Moika River 48, 198000 St. Petersburg, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4720-9584
E-mail: okladnikova-ea@yandex.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2023

Volume

Vol. 68

Pages

pp. 30–46

Received

September 9, 2021

Approved after reviewing

25.11.2022

Date of publication

June 28, 2023

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-30-46

Index UDK

1 (091)

Index BBK

86 372 (2Р-4Ро)

Abstract

The study comes up with results of the analysis of historical material collected in the north of the Demyansk district of the Novgorod region during expeditions on the topic “Historical and cultural map of the Demyansk district” in 2021. In the course of processing the material, we drew attention to the fact that in this map, in addition to the historical and ethnocultural, the contours of the sacred landscape are clearly visible. For the Demyansk land, the sacred landscape is a geographical space where topochron meets the hero's mythologeme. While we studied the topos of the sacred landscape of the Demyansk land on the district`s north, its chronos covers the epochs of the formation of the Old Russian state, the time of the spread of Orthodoxy and its rooting in tradition, the Soviet period and its important part — the Second World War. For each of the determined toposes of the sacred landscape of the Demyansk land we identified corresponding hero mythologeme: a prince (a hero of the feudal era of the formation of the ancient Russian state), a priest (a religious figure, framer of the Christian sacred landscape of territories) and a Soviet warrior (hero of the Second World War).

Keywords

Places of Worship, Sacred Landscape, Demyansk Land, Hero Mythologeme, Hierophany, Hierotopy, Cognitive Maps of the Area.

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