Teonimy staroruskie w świetle teorii trzech funkcji Georges’a Dumézila (Stribog, Perun, Weles)
Old-Russian theonyms Striborg, Perun and Weles in the light of Georges Dumezil's trifunctional theory
Author(s): Vladimir N. ToporovContributor(s): Michał Łuczyński (Translator)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Old-Rus’ theonyms; Balto-Slavic antiquities; Slavic panteon; Slavic beliefs; Slavic mythology; etymology; Stribog; Perun; Weles; Georges Dumézil; semantic reconstruction
Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the mythological system of pagan Slavs from the linguistic point of view. The author analyses Old-Russian theonyms, such as Perunъ, Velesъ and Stribogъ, and tries to reconstruct their etymological and typological correlations in other mythological traditions. The aim of this study is to establish the typology of Old-Slavic deities, based on the theory of trifunctional ideological system of Indo-Europeans, proposed by the French sociologist Georges Dumézil. The author describes selected mythological names and reconstructs a semantic context of the names of Slavic deities within the hypothetical model. The first function (sovereign power) is assigned to Stribogъ, the second function (war) to Perunъ, and the third (economic) function – to Velesъ. The article is one of the first studies of V. N. Toporov devoted to an aspect of old Balto-Slavic world and first of the many texts concerned with Proto-Slavic beliefs and mythology.
Journal: Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka I Kultury
- Issue Year: 24/2012
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 183-200
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Polish