Mitopoetycki obraz Peruna w wierszach Siergieja Gorodieckiego i Konstantina Balmonta
Mythopoetic images of Perun in Sergey Gorodetsky’s and Konstantin Balmont’s poems

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes a reflection on the Slavic god – Perun – in selected poems by Sergei Gorodiecki and Konstantin Balmont. Research attention is focused on the assumption that Russian modernists used the symbolic language of the myth and characters from the Slavic pantheon to present the current problems of the everyday world, while mythological motifs and threads are subject to poetic transformation. We also investigate the nature of change in semantics of the Perun character and what its essence is contained in. The analysis is based on philosophical hermeneutics, which focus on the problem of understanding the text and proposes its contextual interpretation. In all of the analysed poems, we can see an attempt to understand the image of the pagan Slavic world, sources of national character, as well as an attempt to reconstruct the prototype image of the world of Slavs in various ways. In Balmont’s poems, Perun loses his original features, becoming somehow contamination of various Slavic deities, while Gorodiecki clearly demarcates these characters, depicting Perun as a liberator taming demonic powers.

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