Мiфасемантыка i функцыянальнасць вобраза сабакi ў беларускiм фальклоры
Mythosemantics and functionality of the dog’s image in Belarusian folklore

Summary/Abstract: Historico-genetic and functional-semantic research devoted to mythosemantics and functionality of the dog’s image in Belarusian folklore has showed that “the dog’s text” cannot be clearly identified. In the system of zoological imagery the dog personifies loyalty, friendship, vigilance, omniscience, protection, masculinity and is positively evaluated. But the dog also symbolizes uncleanness, danger, betrayal, evil, etc. The dog in the mythological model of the world is located at the boundary between the living world and the world of the others. The dog is attributed to such features as mediation, chthonism, demonism, the ability to neutralize negative manifestations of other worlds as well as to clear the world of men.

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