On the mythological concepts of the Bashkirs Cover Image

О некоторых мифологических представлениях башкир
On the mythological concepts of the Bashkirs

Author(s): Firdaus Khisamitdinova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Lexis, Semantics
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: the Bashkirs; the Bashkir language; mythology; vertical model of the world; horizontal model of the world; totem; ethnonymy

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the basic mythological concepts of the Bashkirs: about creation of the world and landscape formation, about the two brothers-demiurges (the deities-antagonists), about vertical (three levels of the universe) and horizontal (four cardinal directions) models of the world. The article also focuses on the characters of the Bashkir lowest mythology: the images of spirits-owners (patron-spirits) and spirits of diseases, demons and totemic ancestors of the Bashkirs.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 02 (13)
  • Page Range: 090-096
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian