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Revista Universidad y Sociedad
On-line version ISSN 2218-3620
Abstract
GIZI ABBASOVA, Matanat Mashallah. Mythological images in Azerbaijani folk poetry. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.6, pp. 303-308. Epub Dec 02, 2020. ISSN 2218-3620.
The aim of this paper is to definite the structure of the mythological characters in the poetical system of the folk poem. Based on the progressive theory principles, collecting works of the Azerbaijan, Russian and world folklore-study the investigation was made on the principles grounded on the historical-comparative and theoretical-typological investigation methods. The scientific, theoretical, practical results of the investigation are very useful especially for the specialists investigating the poetical structure of the folk poem and for the philological faculties and the folklore educational courses. It was found that in the formation and creation of the world the mythological Goy (Sky), Yer (Earth) and the creation pantheon belonging to the under-Earth worlds and spirits express the nature, ancestor and other cults with different mythical characters. The functional semantics of these forces with creative, protective and marginal characters in the gene-poetical system of folk poem change according to the genre elections. The folk poem gains the symbolic meaning separately in traditional Turkic idea and Islamic context which have the specific mythological characters in its lyrics.
Keywords : Song; character; mythological; symbol; ritual; cult; semantics; genre; mood.