Chora – Miejsce spotkania nieba i ziemi. Na przykładzie rosyjskiej twórczości ustnej

Abstract

Chora Where Heaven and Earth Meet – Based on Russian Oral Tradition The phenomenon of the vast majority of texts in Russian oral literature is related to the occurrence of chora. The Ruthenian land is described as an icon of heavenly reality there. The term chora was used by Plato in Timaeus, giving it a broader, extra-geometric and extra-geographical meaning. Chora contains hierophany, it invalidates space in a geometric and geographical sense. Oral tradition demonstrates the search for a place in Ruthenia that is conducive to the birth of a real man – Plato called the place chora. The idea of this place differed from the idea of Moscow III Rome – it did not refer to the tsar or the state, but to the land and man striving for salvation. The tsar and the state gain a new, heavenly countenance here – only in the perspective of transformation. This idea is not prospective, it refers to eternity. The basic ontological heritage in the identity of the Ruthenian existence, which is not subject to time, has been preserved. Chora, as a Ruthenian space, has an existential and identity dimension.