ТУОНЕЛА: ИНОЙ МИР В СИСТЕМЕ КООРДИНАТ МИРОЗДАНИЯ КАРЕЛЬСКОГО ЭПОСА
TUONELA: OTHER WORLD IN THE SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE COORDINATES IN KARELIAN EPOS

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the views on the mythical country of Tuonela in Karelian epos and its place in Karelian world picture on thebasis of the epic runes texts. The study reveals the features of the mythical topos localization, provides a description of charactersinhabiting it, and presents semantic interpretations of images and motifs. The method of textological, structural and semantic analysisof the runes texts is used in the research. Kalevala metric runes, collected during different periods in northern and southern Kareliaand published in several collective volumes, were used as research material. The study indicates that Tuonela’s image accumulatesthe notions of the otherworld, a faraway land, the realm of the dead, which is not only localized in the horizontal plane beyond somewatershed, but also has some signs of correlation with the underworld, which demonstrates the vertical structure of the universe.

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