MITOLOGIJA, OBRED I KONCEPCIJE VREMENA KOD RATARA I NOMADA
MYTHOLOGY, RITE AND CONCEPTIONS OF TIME IN LAND-TILLERS AND NOMADS

Summary/Abstract: This work deals with the analysis of the connection between the night and day systems of symbolism with the economic, mythological, ritual and religious spheres of life of the ancient peoples and communities. It is stated that the mentioned systems of symbolism establish the axioms of the communities as well as specific conceptions of time. It can thus be observed that there is an organic connection between the night system of symbolism and the agricultural on the one hand, and the day system of symbolism with the nomadic style of life on the other in the following way: a) nomads are devoted to patriarchal monotheism, the ideology of the New Beginning, the solar cult, ritual sacrificing of animals, shamanist symbolism and the linear concept of time; b) land-tillers are inclined towards matriarchal polytheism, lunar epiphany, fertility rites with cyclical human sacrifices, beliefs in incarnation and reincarnation and the cyclical concept of time. Also presented is the way in which animal offerings, both in land-tillers and nomads, are euphemised in time whereas the once real sacrificing turns into rites of symbolic evocation of the divine sacrifice.

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