Mythological segment of everyday life ukrainian оrthodox believer

Abstract

The article investigates the peculiarities of the functioning of the traditional mythological forms in the plane of the religious everyday life. Religious studies analysis of Ukrainian mythological beliefs as mental structures of everyday consciousness, carried out in the context of the interaction of national and religious discourses in daily practice. In the structure of everyday consciousness believing personality mythological forms are portrayed through folklore. Mythological beliefs reflected in the semantic-symbolic form, reproduce mythological archetypes by mechanisms of transmission, have the ability to preserve relevant in the new social conditions by establishing secondary meaning. Mythological beliefs represent a significant body of relict elements of everyday consciousness, which is inherent in metaphor, bricolage logic, binary opposition. Bricolage way to create space based on the principle of layering, using non-standard elements as characteristic features of mythological thinking. Binary principle is the means of categorizing of reality, represented in mythological consciousness, religious rituals, way of life. The high conservation degree of mythological concepts in the beliefs is supported by transforming images to archetypal forms.