Abaeva F.O. 1
1 Federal State Budget Institution «V.I. Abaev North Ossetic Institute of Humanitarian and Social Studies of Vladikavkaz Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Republic of North Ossetia – Alania», Vladikavkaz
The article is devoted to the semantics and the symbolics of horse bæh, which is the concept of the objective code of the wedding ritual. It participates in the pre-wedding, in the self-wedding, and in the after-wedding cycles. The symbolic function of this concept we have discussed is analyzed with possibility of investigating the rite as the text which consists of actional, verbal, personage and other codes. The main semantic characteristics of the horse bæh as a transactor and mediator in the wedding ritual text of Ossets are expressed in its aqueous, chthonic kind, and in its relationship with the cult of the sun and fire, united and opposed to its aqueous and solar essences. The heightened prolificacy is one of the most important symbolic functions of the horse. The concept horse bæh as one of the brightest component of the Ossetic wedding ceremony, which also includes the adjacent terminology, ritual actions and realities, we have seen in the mainstream of ethnolinguistic analysis.
semantics
symbolics
ceremonial text
objective code
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Рецензенты:
Бесолова Е.Б., д.филол.н., доцент, ведущий научный сотрудник отдела осетинского языкознания ФГБУН «Северо-Осетинский институт гуманитарных и социальных исследований им. В.И. Абаева ВНЦ РАН и Правительства РСО-А», г. Владикавказ;
Гацалова Л.Б., д.филол.н., ведущий научный сотрудник отдела осетинского языкознания ФГБУН «Северо-Осетинский институт гуманитарных и социальных исследований им. В.И. Абаева ВНЦ РАН и Правительства РСО-А», г. Владикавказ.
Работа поступила в редакцию 14.08.2012
