Houses and Carving Ornaments in the Context of Chuvash Mythology
Annotation
this article examines the mythological ideas, symbols, images, and plots associated with housing and outbuildings, as well as the cosmogonic and protective motifs that are reflected in the carvings of the gates and architectural elements of the Chuvash house. The article is based on published works on the ethnography, mythology, and folk architecture of the Chuvash people in the 19th and early 21st centuries, as well as archival sources and the author's field materials collected in various years in the Chuvash Republic, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Ulyanovsk Region. The elements and zones of...
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