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Path and movement in the plot of legends about icons (on the problem of the Christian symbols of water and air)
Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Ключевые слова
stories about icons, path and movement, plot, roman, iver, tikhvin, vladimir, tolga, and albatskaya icons, biblical text, water symbol, elements of air
Abstract
Many medieval stories about icons are based on the motif of a sacral object journey. Delineating conceptions of «path» and «move», it is possible to define functionality features of these concepts in the legendary plots composition. In the paper a question is raised about the Christian symbols of water and air.
Bibliographic reference
Zhurova Ludmila Ivanovna. Path and movement in the plot of legends about icons (on the problem of the Christian symbols of water and air) // Сибирский филологический журнал. 2013. № 3. Pp. 25–30.