Traditional family rites of the Ukrainians of Podolia: archaic elements of а cultural text

Inna Gorofyanyuk

doi:10.52603/rec.2021.29.11

Abstract

Podolia is an ethnographic region of Ukraine, which is known for active interethnic contacts for many centuries, which, on the one hand, have systematically enriched the Podolsk spiritual and material culture, and on the other hand, in various spheres of the traditional culture of the Podolians, there is a preservation of many Slavic archaic elements. The article presents the archaic elements of the traditional culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia in traditional family rituals – birthlore, wedding and funeral on the material of the verbal component of the cultural text. Field records of dialectal texts, made by the author in 2006–2014 in more than 100 villages of Vinnitsa region served as empirical basis of the study. The family rites texts attest the realization of the main semantic oppositions of the Slavic picture of the world: "top" – "bottom", "full" – "empty", "own" – "alien". The motives of the cult of ancestors, deception of death, syncretism of agrarian and family rituals are elements of the archaic, which constitute an essential part of the folk consciousness and beliefs of the Podolians. Several fragments of the folk culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia presented in the article through the prism of the comparative typological analysis, with the involvement of data from other Slavic traditions, signal the preservation of the general archaic fund of the spiritual culture of the Slavs

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Summary Traditional family rites of the Ukrainians of Podolia: archaic elements of а cultural text Podolia is an ethnographic region of Ukraine, which is known for active interethnic contacts for many centuries, which, on the one hand, have systematically enriched the Podolsk spiritual and material culture, and on the other hand, in various spheres of the traditional culture of the Podolians, there is a preservation of many Slavic archaic elements
The article presents the archaic elements of the traditional culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia in traditional family rituals – birthlore, wedding and funeral on the material of the verbal component of the cultural text
Field records of dialectal texts, made by the author in 2006–2014 in more than 100 villages of Vinnitsa region served as empirical basis of the study

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Резюме Традиционные семейные обряды украинцев Подолья: архаичные элементы культурного текста Подолье – этнографический регион Украины, который известен активными межэтническими контактами на протяжении многих веков, что, с одной стороны, способствовало систематическому обогащению подольской духовной и материальной культуры, а с другой – в разных сферах традиционной культуры подолян наблюдается сохранность множества славянских архаических элементов. В статье представлены архаические элементы народной культуры украинцев Подолья в традиционных семейных обрядах – родильном, свадебном и похоронном – на материале вербального компонента культурного текста.

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