Prilog proučavanju ikonografskog motiva stabla svijeta/života na mirilima južnog Velebita
A contribution to the study of the iconographic motif of the tree of the world/life on the mirilo of southern Velebit

Summary/Abstract: Presented in the paper is the iconographic-symbolic structure of the ideogram of the arbor mundi (cosmic tree, tree of the world/life) on the mirilište (resting place) of Kosa Renjovačka halfway between the settlement of Reljinovac/Renjovac and the Ljubotić cemetery. The ideograms are analysed stylistically-morphologically on the mirilo monuments and in the funeral art on one headstone of a drystone wall type mirilo grave at the Ljubotić cemetery, and on two grave slabsat the Lun cemetery on the island of Pag. They are analogously compared with the motifs of the same or similar iconographic characteristics from the wider geographic area. The questionof the image of the tree of the world in Podgorje primarily sets the question of the reconstruction of its traditional religious-symbolic meaning, both on the mirilo monuments and on the funeral monuments. Being that the aim of this paper is to show the ideogram of the tree of the world as one of the visual motifs which to date has not been documented in literature about the visual representations of the southern Velebit mirilište (resting places), it is not possible to give a final answer to the question of understanding its image until the beginning of the 20th century.

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