Сакралните владетели на света и техните светилища във фолклорната памет на българомохамеданските общности на юг от Бачковския манастир
THE SACRED RULERS OF THE WORLD AND THEIR SANCTUARIES IN THE FOLK MEMORY OF BULGARIAN MUSLIM COMMUNITIES TO THE SOUTH OF THE BACHKOVO MONASTERY

Summary/Abstract: The present article discusses newly recorded folklore data on the Bulgarian Muslim beliefs about the sacred rulers of the world and their sanctuaries in the southern part of the Bachkovo monastery cultural area (the region of Eastern Rupchos, Middle Rhodopes). Based on this material a model of the sacred rulers of the world is constructed in which two semantic chains are discerned. The images of the sacred rulers of the world in the first chain, Peygamber and Azrail, are generalized and are not integral, while the images from the second chain, Enihan Baba and Gerge, have clearly individualized semantics and functional distinctness. In the suggested framework, pre-Christian elements in the ideas and beliefs about the sacred rulers are detected. In addition, the history of the sanctuaries in the localities Gerge and Kurbanyete is traced back.

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