ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

This text presents another study of the Balkan-Caucasian folklore parallels and suggests a new viewpoint about the Balkan ritual Kalush from the perspective of the North Caucasian Chopa / Tzopai. The existence of early and related types of religiosity in the folklore heritage in the Prepontian territories is quite predictable among the descendants of the Indo-Iranian (Scythian-Sarmatian, Alan) and other Indo-European communities though today thay have different languages and faiths. In both folklore manifestations (Chopa / Tzopai, Kalush) a common archaic context is visible in myth-ritualistic ideas and similar behavioral models of rituality (in the ideas about the Superior thunder god; about a transition / and transience – of the nontraditional deceased and of people in marginal psychosomatic state, believed to be the chosen ones and mediators; in the music symbolization of the ritual environment). This context namely leads to the projections of the mythical time and training within mytho-logos, whose “finalis”, however, was heralded long ago. Furthermore, this text is about rituality not recommended for “training”.

Keywords: Kalush, Chopa, Tzopai, Bulgarian-Caucasian folklore parallels, myth, ritual.

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