Open AccessМонгол ардын үлгэр дэх цэцэн мэргэний сэдэв (= Тема мудрости в монгольских народных сказках)
Author(s) -
B. Dayriimaa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bûlletenʹ kalmyckogo naučnogo centra ran
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2587-6503
DOI - 10.22162/2587-6503-2020-4-16-276-282
Subject(s) - depiction , hero , servant , theme (computing) , adversary , literature , daughter , art , history , aesthetics , law , computer science , computer security , political science , programming language , operating system
One of the main motifs of any folk fairy tale are the stories of wise men. This theme is especially vividly manifested in the depiction of the confrontation of a hero with a perfect mind, who, being small (puny), easily overcomes a many times superior enemy. In fairy tales about animals, the main bearer of wisdom is a hare, the main opponent of the hare is a wolf or lion. In everyday fairy tales the wisdom theme is employed in the stories about testing mind through the conflict between a khan and a servant, between brothers, between a step-mother and a step-daughter, etc. Most of the stories are built on the storylines of wise guessers, wise counselors. The author identifies four types of bearers of wisdom.