Open AccessMIRACLE OF RENEWAL/MYRRH-STREAMING OF ICONS AS A SIGN OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OR A MARK OF BAD/GOOD EVENTS ON THE TERRITORY OF BELARUS AND ITS BORDERS
Author(s) -
Ilya S. Butov,
Ilya S. Butov journal “Potato
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
religiovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7575
pISSN - 2072-8662
DOI - 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.1.97-106
Subject(s) - miracle , narrative , chronotope , sign (mathematics) , history , icon , nazism , trace (psycholinguistics) , folklore , spanish civil war , ancient history , literature , art , archaeology , law , political science , philosophy , mathematical analysis , linguistics , mathematics , german , computer science , programming language
The Great Patriotic War, like any major war before it, significantly changed the cultural landscape and was reflected in folklore - in particular, in narratives about miracles as harbingers of good or bad events. Despite the information that icon renewals took place in almost every diocese that suffered from the Nazi invasion, sufficient statistics on these events have not been accumulated yet and they are still not dated. In this regard, the work on fixing such stories and analyzing them is extremely relevant. For the study, we used the following methods: comparative, structural and typological ones, areal analysis and mapping. During the areal analysis and subsequent mapping, we also used the chronotope method, which allowed us to trace not only the territorial, but also the temporal and cyclical distribution of recorded narratives. The article provides stories and documentary evidence of pre-war cases of spontaneous renewal of icons and renewals of icons at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War...