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Męskie versus żeńskie czy męskie w żeńskim i żeńskie w męskim? Problem relacji płciowych w mitach australijskich

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Szyjewski A.
Studia Religiologica
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2012
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vol. 45
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issue 1
57–66
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The social structure and gender relations in Aboriginal societies clearly indicate that the male domain is favoured in contact with the sacred. Nevertheless, male-female relations are not as unequivocally established as they are thought to be within Aboriginal mythology. The sex of sacred characters such as the Rainbow Serpent or Cannibal Monster is extremely flexible even within the same version of a myth. The general character of male/female relations tends to be one of exchange, where male sacred power is a derivative of the female power of fertility. The most sacred values, belonging to the sacred-secret realm, are established by the tension between male and female principles, marked by moving those elements that belong to one gender to the domain of the other. This construct also establishes the threat of desacralisation, connected with moving the object back to the domain it came from.
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Problem relacji płciowych w mitach australijskich – zasada matrioszki

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Szyjewski A.
Studia Religiologica
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2012
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vol. 45
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issue 2
117–124
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This paper discusses the ambiguity of sex identity within Aboriginal mythology. Male/female relations are the main point of the well-known Wawilag Sisters myth from Arnhem Land, based on a series of equivalent mythical unions: the penis in the vagina (male in female) ≡ the serpent in the hut (male in female) ≡ Wawilag sisters pregnancy (male in female) ≡ Wawilag sisters devoured by the serpent (female in male) ≡ subincised penis (female in male). The effect of such equivalencies may be compared to a “matryoshka” doll: the male (child) is in the female (sisters) which is in the male (serpent), which in a way also renders the male symbols female (this is why the serpent is called “pregnant”). The basis of such a construction may be understood as the creation of a series of transformations male>female>male>female etc., which eventually leads to realisation of the exchange of female with male blood; their equipoise is necessary for initiation ceremonies.
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LUDZIE CZY ZWIERZĘTA? PRZODKOWIE W MITACH ULURU U PITJANTJATJARA

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Szyjewski A.
Rocznik Lubuski
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2016
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vol. 42
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issue 2
63-95
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Mity koncentrujące się wokół skały Uluru (Ayers Rock) są ściśle skorelowane z charakterystycznymi elementami jej ukształtowania. Pozwala to na wyprowadzenie szeregu wniosków dotyczącego postrzegania przez Aborygenów przodków mitycznych, zwłaszcza relacji ich strony zwierzęcej i ludzkiej. W przeciwieństwie do istot demonicznych (mamu),takich jak Kurpany, cechujących się zmaksymalizowaną hybrydalnością, przodkowie przejawiają swą podwójną naturę okazjonalnie. Ruch odnosi się zwykle do ich zoomorficzności, jednak dysponują jednocześnie cielesnością „ludzką”, a zwłaszcza „ludzkim” wyposażeniem kulturowym. Jednak ich przekształcanie w elementy krajobrazu nie zachodzi według jednoznacznego kodu. Szlaki Snu przodków nie wyznaczają syntagmy mitu, ze względu na powtarzanie epizodów w różnych kontekstach geograficznych. Przedstawiające epizody mityczne formacje skalne, drzewa i trawa nie mają jednoznacznych przyporządkowań. Tym niemniej przewodnią rolę w tak powstającym amalgamacie tworzą struktury symboliczne rzutowane na elementy krajobrazu, co widać szczególnie na przykładzie obecności binarnej symboliki organizacji społecznej w interpretacjach symetrycznych układów skalnych.
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Myths focusing on the Uluru (Ayers Rock) are closely correlated with the characteristic elements of its shape. This allows us to formulate a number of proposals concerning the perception of Aboriginal mythical ancestors, especially their animal versus human characteristics. In contrast to the totally hybrid status of demonic beings (mamu), such as Kurpany, ancestors reveal their ambigous nature rather seldom. When moving, they were usually described as zoomorphic beings, but at the same time they were endowed with "human" moods of behaviour, and especially "human" cultural equipment. However, their transformations into the distinctive elements of the Uluru landscape went randomly, without any stable code of transformation. The Dreaming tracks of ancestors also could not provide the syntagm of myth, due to the constant repeating of mythic episodes in different geographical contexts. Therefore depicting mythic episodes in rock formations, trees or grass could not offer unabiguous asignments. However, symbolic structures that were projected on the elements of Uluru landscape took the lead in the processes of transformations, what espacially may be observed by the repeatable presence of dual social organization code in the symmetric layout of the rock features.
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