USTNO IZROČILO O KRAŠKI KRAJINI. O ČASU, PROSTORU IN MITIČNI BABI
THE ORAL TRADITION OF THE KARST LANDSCAPE. ON TIME, SPACE AND THE MYTHICAL BABA

Summary/Abstract: The contribution is a small part of an ethnological investigation of the perception of time and space in the oral tradition of the Karst landscape. In the traditional way of thinking, the narration of the mythical and remote past unfolds in a spatial dimension, in the Karst landscape. The fundamental spatial concept is the boundary (between worlds), which is manifested in the landscape in the ritual and mythical significance of cadastral boundaries. Mount Nanos can be considered in its mythical role as the axis of the universe. Beside the community boundary, oak, too, is a mediator for the world beyond, whose significance is preserved in the karstic dialect. The investigation pointed to the structural fragmentation of karstic villages, which are divided into smaller identities by spatial units. The contribution concludes with a remnant of the archaic mythology of the Karst, the folklore figure of Baba.

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