PTICE U PROSTORNIM I VREMENSKIM MODELIMA USMENE LIRIKE

The paper shows how human experience of nature influences poetic of oral lyric, more precisely – formation of spatial and temporal models. The functions of birds in these models are determined by their characteristic of flying and singing. Birds have an important role in constructing cosmic notions (axis mundi, hierogamic union, celestial world and master of rain). As ambiguous, birds belong to tame and wild, human and inhuman world. They can easily cross the boundaries in both directions – they arrive from the other world in the human world, and fly away from the human world to the ulterior one. They connect different spheres by their flight or voice – sky and earth, earth and water, mountain, water and field. Birds can equally belong to the far away spaces and the space of home. They mark crucial moments, tem- poral boundaries and intervals within the temporal models, but they are most often associated with morning and magical clean time. On the other hand, the songs model year cycle by the motif of migration of birds. As a part of one’s own and alien world, birds are important part of notion of nature in oral lyric songs.