ICONOGRAPHIC, SYMBOLIC AND HEALING ASPECTS IN ORTHODOX ART AND FOLK TRADITIONS Cover Image

ИКОНОГРАФСКИ, СИМВОЛНИ И ЛЕЧИТЕЛСКИ АСПЕКТИ В ХРИСТИЯНСКОТО ИЗКУСТВО И НАРОДНИТЕ ТРАДИЦИИ
ICONOGRAPHIC, SYMBOLIC AND HEALING ASPECTS IN ORTHODOX ART AND FOLK TRADITIONS

Author(s): Maya Dimcheva
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: feast days; rite; ritual; iconography; art; medicine

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the ritual system connected with the traditional folk calendar. It unites the main spheres — material and spiritual of the national folk culture, comprehends the essence and content of such social and spiritual phenomena as feast days, rite, ceremony, ritual, symbolism. All of those actions are related to the Eastern Orthodox values and traditions, to the historical memory of Bulgaria, and reveal the specific basic concepts of the world, man and history.