THE IMAGE OF AURORA POLARIS IN THE POETRY BY ULURO ADO
Kurilova Ladina Gavrilovna
The Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract. The article examines the central images and motives of the creative work of the Yukagir poet Uluro Ado - G. N. Kurilov, in particular the image of aurora Polaris in the complex of motives of the destiny of nation, nature and a man. The significance of myth-folklore motives and plots in the poetic works by Uluro Ado is highlighted. By means of philological, descriptive and structural analyses the image of aurora Polaris has been defined as a natural cosmic image with myth-poetic beginning.
Key words and phrases: фольклорные истоки, мотив судьбы народа, мотив природы и человека, мифологические представления юкагиров, мифо-фольклорные мотивы и сюжеты, образ полярного сияния, космический образ, folklore sources, the motive of the nation’s destiny, the motive of nature and a man, mythological ideas of the Yukagirs, myth-folklore motives and plots, the image of aurora Polaris, cosmic image
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