Kraljice u Akademiji
Kraljice (Queens) in Academy

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the description of the "staging" of customs at the 100th Anniversary of the Academy in 1966, the author summarizes Croatian and Serbian interpretations of the custom of kraljice [queens] and links it to the pre-Christian koleda [Christmas carol] and the custom of electing the king, using ethnochoreological sources and comparing the custom to the Slovak and Czech sources. He offers a new argumentation of three variants of the origin of kraljice (belonging to the old Slavic stratum, who took over the custom with its common pre-Indoeuropean origins from the non-Slavic population of the Southeast Europe). The paper deals most with the interpretation of the relationship between myth and ritual/custom (especially in consideration with the myth of androgyne and the gender issue) as well as with the role of scholars in the preservation of tradition.

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