Pre-Christian Eschatological Motifs in the Ukrainian Dumas and Spiritual Verses and Their Germanic Parallels-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Pre-Christian Eschatological Motifs in the Ukrainian Dumas and Spiritual Verses and Their Germanic Parallels

Published:2024-07-14 Issue:7 Volume:15 Page:846
ISSN:2077-1444
Container-title:Religions
language:en
Short-container-title:Religions

Author:

Rakhno Mykhailo¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. English and German Philology Department, Educational and Research Institute of Foreign Languages, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, 36000 Poltava, Ukraine

Abstract

The Ukrainian folklore genres least studied in a mythological context are the epic songs: dumas and spiritual verses. In particular, it is possible to find concepts of the beginning and the end of the world in these works. In many aspects, they are close to the Old Germanic ones, especially concerning the mythological connection between natural cataclysms and the breaking of family ties, as shown by several archaic examples. This article deals with these cosmogonic and eschatological notions in Ukrainian and Scandinavian epics. The author points to a similar outlook in both epic traditions and a similarity in emotional and evaluative identifications of events. These parallels must be owed to Germano-Slavic contacts in the early Middle Ages.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/7/846/pdf

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