Russian Mythology. Spiritual Masters and Traditional Peasant Life. Tales, Anecdotes, Legends, and Beliefs about Spiritual Masters
This book analyzes the images of folk mythological prose—spirit "masters" who were supreme deities in ancient mythology but transformed into lower spiritual beings in later folklore, assisting in everyday and economic affairs: the bannik (bannik), the domovoy (domovoi), the leshy (leshy), the vodyanoy (water spirit), and related creatures. The appearance, chronotope, and functions of these characters are examined. The syncretism and polysemy of these images, the archetype of which was formed in the myth of the totemic ancestor, are revealed. Field data, including those collected by the author, are used in the analysis. This book, for the first time, provides a comparative analysis of a very large body of scientific data in the fields of ethnography, folklore studies, history, linguistics, art history, literary criticism, folk medicine, and botany.
For folklorists, ethnographers, art historians, religious scholars, psychologists, as well as for readers interested in folk culture.
For folklorists, ethnographers, art historians, religious scholars, psychologists, as well as for readers interested in folk culture.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Technologies of Culture

