HIEROTOPY IN THE SOUTHERN URALS: WAYS AND MECHANISMS OF SACRALIZATION OF SPACE Cover Image
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ИЕРОТОПИИ НА ЮЖНОМ УРАЛЕ: ПУТИ И МЕХАНИЗМЫ САКРАЛИЗАЦИИ ПРОСТРАНСТВА
HIEROTOPY IN THE SOUTHERN URALS: WAYS AND MECHANISMS OF SACRALIZATION OF SPACE

Author(s): Tatiana Saveleva
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Ethnohistory, Social history, Theology and Religion, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Асоциация за антропология, етнология и фолклористика ОНГЬЛ
Keywords: eurotopia; sacralization of space; mythology and everyday magical practices;

Summary/Abstract: We consider the process of taming space, turning a profane place into a sacred one, mythologizing, overgrowing with legends and rituals on the example of objects in the southern Urals: Arkaim, the rock complex “Steppe Madonna”, makeyevskaya arbor, the island of Faith, etc. We distinguish three types of “sacralization” of space: political, commercial, and spontaneous. We note the commercial type of sacralization in Arkaim. The spontaneous type includes the sacralization of other listed objects. We note a tendency to hierotopical elements of the cultural landscape. It 45 reflects, first, the desire of modern man to understand the past, a protest against the Erasure of national identity, and secondly-an eclectic picture of the human world, including both elements of traditional religion and pagan components.

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