Кодовая структура белорусских обрядов и ритуалов, связанных с вызыванием дождя
THE CODE STRUCTURE OF BELORUSSIAN IMAGES AND RITUALS CONNECTED WITH INVOKING THE RAIN

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the possibility of arranging field materials for the Belorussian Ethnoliguistic Atlas according to minimal units (conceptual categories), corresponding to 'ethnolinguistic semes'. An analysis is offered of ceremonies and rituals to do with invoking the rain. The material comes from 400 sites and has been arranged, following N. I. Tolstoi's proposal, according to the following codes: action-related (blessing the well, offering sacrifices, purifying and drawing water), object-related (salt, sand, bread spade, table cloth), subject-related (children, girls, widows), locative (the boundary of one's own and of the other's field, river, lake), related to plants (corn, millet, flax), temporal (the twenty-four-hour period, day, night), related to animals (mole, ram, owl, cock, snake, frog), and verbal (magic spells, verbal formulae, song lyrics, etc.).

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