- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022 15 (6)
- Authors
- Nakhodkina, Alina A.
- Contact information
- Nakhodkina, Alina A.: M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University Yakutsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-1522-2792
- Keywords
- road; path; metaphor; Yakut; Sakha; epic; olonkho; characters; rituals
- Abstract
The article outlines the image of the road in the Yakut heroic epic olonkho, which describes the life of the Sakha people in different historical eras from various aspects. The road in the epic is a plot-forming spatiotemporal metaphor; it commonly starts in the south and leads north, repeating the pattern of the Sakha migration to Siberia. The article reveals how epic space and roads shaped the collective memory of the people who existed in the south of the Asian continent and had to move to the north. The author examines the typology and functional characteristics of the road and its unique sacred nature, identifies the features of roads and passages leading to the Under World, their out-of-borderness and significant remoteness from the sacred center of the native land. This borderline marginality is aggravated by the personality of the road and its bestial incarnation. Special attention is paid to the rituals related to the road in epic and real space. This study is based on the English translation of the Yakut heroic epic olonkho «Nurgun Botur the Swift» written by P. A. Oyunsky
- Pages
- 769–779
- DOI
- 10.17516/1997-1370-0891
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/145396
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