Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2014 7 (4)

Authors

Aslamazishvili, Dina N.; Ignatov, Nikolay A.

Contact information

Aslamazishvili, Dina N.:Georgian American University, 8 Merab Aleksidze Str., Tbilisi, 0160, Georgia; Ignatov, Nikolay A.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; E-mail:

Keywords

man; symbol; lunar symbolics; solar symbolics; primeval; civilization; culture transition; agriculture

Abstract

In the present article we have proposed that the symbol or rather the changing of the symbols system is able to support culture transitions. The essential attributes of the symbol (universality, differentiability, substantiveness, imperativeness, communicativeness, teleologicality, duality, polysemy), being developed throughout history, have been persistently displayed their regulative role in spiritual processes of transition from a state of traditional culture to a state of trans-traditional culture. Similar considerations have been applied to the transition from gathering onto producing and consequently from gathering culture to the state of agriculture. Inventors of agriculture and their followers managed to have successfully combined their primitive concepts and their mysterious symbols thereby having also invented the first fundamental culture transition encouraged and supported by a process of replacing the lunar symbol with the solar symbol which emergence and self-determination was the most vivid symbolic embodiment of culture transition at the time

Pages

676-691

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/10327

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