Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Geosophy and Geopoetics of the Russian North: Myth, Symbol, Ritual

Full text (.pdf)
Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (12)
Authors
Terebikhin, Nikolay M.
Contact information
Terebikhin, Nikolay M.: Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the RAS Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation;
Keywords
geosophy; geopoetics; Russian North; geocultural space; glacial landscape; myth; symbol; ritual; island; archipelago
Abstract

The article presents the scientific results of research in the field of geosophy and geopoetics of the Russian North. They are of great conceptual and applied importance for understanding the modern strategy and practice of the spatial development of the Northern macroregion. The methodological basis of the study is the semiotics and hermeneutics of traditional culture of local and ethnic communities of the Russian North, as well as works included in the cycle of the Northern supertext of Russian literature. The article reveals the semantic content of the mythologeme “Original Rus’” as one of the root images of the Russian North and the Russian Arctic’ mythopoetic space, associated with the symbolism of the “eternal return” to forgotten and abandoned, but remembered and acquired spiritual (polar) Motherland. The cryosophical and mythological-ritual semantics of the «glacial» cultural landscape of the northern and Arctic territories has been studied. The fundamental role of the «island» («archipelagic») image-symbolic complex as a structural paradigm for the arrangement of sacred and geocultural space, embodied in the ensembles of island monasteries of the Northern Thebaid and pagan temples in the archipelagos of the Russian Arctic, in the topography of the urban and zemstvo worlds of the Russian North, is revealed. The main stages of the formation and deployment of humanitarian geographical research in the Russian North, which marked a «spatial turn» and a change in problem-subject areas and methodological paradigms in the strategy of a number of scientific schools and areas of northern regional studies, are identified

Pages
2227–2235
EDN
JMHRGY
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/152389

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).