Semantic Models and Motifs of the Actional Code of the Udmurt Healing Ritual
Panina Tatiana Igorevna
Udmurt Federal Research Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Submitted: 21.10.2021
Abstract. The purpose of the paper is to analyse the actional code of the Udmurt healing rite, considered as a cultural text. Scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that the ritual actions of the healing rite are classified into groups according to the relevant method of achieving the goal and taking into account the semantics of its actional component. The proposed classification is based on the system develo¬ped by E. E. Levkiyevskaya for the study of the Slavic protective amulet. As a result of the analysis, the author has iden-tified the main semantic models, which are manifested in the elementary semantic units - motifs. The con-sidered semantic models are notionally divided into three groups: the first group combines ritual actions the main purpose of which is to establish contact, the second one encompasses actions intended to have impact on the source of the disease; the third one contains actions aimed at giving a patient properties that can make him/her invulnerable to the disease. The analysis of folklore and ethnographic material revealed that motifs of the semantic models belonging to the second group were the most widespread ones, which is accounted for by the fact that the concept of the fight between two opposing forces underlies most Udmurt healing rituals that involve performing an incantation against the disease.
Key words and phrases: удмуртская народная медицина, лечебный обряд, акциональный код, семантическая модель, семантический мотив, Udmurt folk medicine, healing rite, actional code, semantic model, semantic motif
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