ATTITUDE TO DEATH IN THE ORAL STORY OF THE BURYATS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SHAMANIC DREAMS)

Danchinova Maria Danilovna

The article discusses the concept of death in the oral story of the Buryats on the example of shamanic dreams. The initial analysis is the author's materials collected and recorded in the Alar district, Irkutsk region. The following notions are traditionally studied in Buryat folklore and literary criticism, they are mythopoetic of texts, genre features, shamanic chants, legends, hymns and invocations. The originality of studying the displayed picture of the world in the oral story of dreams lies in the fact that the informants are people who not only profess shamanism, but the performers of this cult. The analysis is based on an interdisciplinary approach, taking into account historical, ethnographic, cultural, social, psychological and theological aspects, because the content of the stories reveals the depth of life of individual experience of a group of people with all them cultural and spiritual background. We focus on such features of the oral story as the concept of death in the spatio-temporal architectonics of the displayed picture of the world, its significance, symbolism and figurativeness, a position of a hero.

Keywords:oral story, death, dream, spatio-temporal architectonics, image