Antinomian Concepts Of Reproduction And Death In Archaic Consciousness Of Caucasusian Peoples

Abstract

In the modern world, when globalization processes lead to the erosion of cultural boundaries, blurring unique elements of ethnic cultures, there is a need to appeal to the basic spiritual values ​​of the people of the Caucasus, trapped in the mythological picture of the world. In our opinion the fixation of the archaic layer of ethnic consciousness will help to preserve the diversity of world cultural heritage.Traditional cultural stereotypes are lost in an increasingly globalizing world.Against the background of multicultural interaction, the oppositional fields of cultural rejection, negative attitude and confrontation are created.Modern challenges require an answer about the origin of the unity and diversity of ethno-cultural approaches to the most important questions about the meaning of birth and departure from life.The search of this meaning are lost and simplified in everyday routine. They create a pattern of a myth full of hidden and explicit symbols that require decoding. This article touches upon the issue of the North Caucasian mythological texts that connect the ideas of birth and dying.Folklore texts are analyzed in conjunction with documentary historical and ethnographic sources. In the process of the investigation of myth, the persistent interrelation of the acts of death and birth, the reproduction of a new life, is traced.At the same time, there is a paradoxical dependence of birth on the death preceding it.The philosophical semantics of myth is literally transferred to ritual cultural practice, which confirms the dual nature of death and life.