Две духовные традиции в творчестве Коста Хетагурова (идеологема жертвенности)

Abstract

The article is devoted to clarifying the contribution that Kosta Khetagurov made to the development of Ossetian public consciousness, taking into account its special religiosity. For the first time, the religious aspect of Kosta Khetagurov’s creative heritage is considered from a functional point of view, in direct connection with the transitional period through which Ossetian society passed at the junction of epochs. The ideologeme of sacrifice, which he put on the public agenda as a spiritual and moral imperative, turns out to be the ideological basis that allowed two spiritual traditions to be brought to a common denominator. It is possible to discover a plot in which it is declared as a moral maxim, central to his entire work. He puts this ideology in a form that is directly correlated with the cattle-breeding lifestyle characteristic of the way Ossetians live in the mountains and are well known to each of them. At the same time, the image of the shepherd as a spiritual shepherd turns out to be quite organic for the Christian doctrine, in which sacrifice also appears as one of the cornerstones. By bringing two spiritual traditions to a common denominator, Kosta Khetagurov removes potential contradictions, organically bringing together the past and the future, specific and universal, locally limited and having no boundaries. This opens up an opportunity to study the social consciousness of that era not only from a new angle, but also comprehensively and systematically.