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ON THE METHODS OF CONSTRUCTING A MYTHOLOGICAL TEXT: SLAVIC FOLK BELIEFS REGARDING THE SPOTS OF THE MOON (Mutoloogilise teksti konstrueerimise moodustest: slaavi rahvauskumused Kuu laikudest)

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Gura A.

Mäetagused

2010

vol. 46

37-52

The dark spots visible on the surface of the full Moon have been diversely interpreted in the Slavic folk calendar, with a partial overlapping being noted upon the consolidation of relevant thematic groups. The article provides an overview regarding the explanations, concerning the origin of lunar spots, widespread among the Slavic people. The comparative analysis of the Slavic narratives on lunar spots indicates the distribution of the text into different morphological elements, enables the ascertaining of mutual correlations and combinations, and shows how they are being used to 'assemble', construct texts in different regional traditions, determining the 'grammatical' structure of the mythological text as a whole.

THE PLEIADES AS OPENINGS, THE MILKY WAY AS THE PATH OF BIRDS, AND THE GIRL ON THE MOON: CULTURAL LINKS ACROSS NORTHERN EURASIA (Plejaadid kui taevaavad, Linnutee ja neiu Kuul: kultuuriseosed Pohja-Euraasias)

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Berezkin J.

Mäetagused

2010

vol. 46

7-36

The Baltic-Finnish and the Baltic (Latvian and Lithuanian) cosmonyms mostly coincide while the Baltic and Slavic cosmonymic patterns are different. The Pleiades in the Eastern Baltic are 'a sieve', the Milky Way is 'the path of migratory birds' and a girl holding water pails is seen on the Moon. Across most of Central, Western and Southern Europe the Pleiades are 'a hen with its chicken', the Milky Way and the lunar spots have other (and different) interpretations. The Eastern Baltic pattern is identical with the Middle Volga one where it is widespread among both Finnish-Permian and Turkic groups and probably relates back to the (Proto-Baltic?) culture of the Iron Age. However, parallels for the cosmonyms in question are found across most of Northern Eurasia and find corresponding similarities in some parts of North America. 'Water-carrier on the Moon' is the most widespread of these motifs being known in Japan and Polynesia. In Eurasia, the Northern Samoyeds noticeably lack all three images. The initial emergence of at least some of the cosmonyms under discussion in the Terminal Pleistocene of northern East Asia and their further dissemination towards the West, down to the Baltics, is a hypothesis to be checked.

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ON THE METHODS OF CONSTRUCTING A MYTHOLOGICAL TEXT: SLAVIC FOLK BELIEFS REGARDING THE SPOTS OF THE MOON (Mutoloogilise teksti konstrueerimise moodustest: slaavi rahvauskumused Kuu laikudest)

THE PLEIADES AS OPENINGS, THE MILKY WAY AS THE PATH OF BIRDS, AND THE GIRL ON THE MOON: CULTURAL LINKS ACROSS NORTHERN EURASIA (Plejaadid kui taevaavad, Linnutee ja neiu Kuul: kultuuriseosed Pohja-Euraasias)