On Secular and Sacred Time in Some Russian Folklore Religious Texts

In modern studies of religion, the category of time of the confessional text is usually described with the help of the opposition profane-sacred. Orthodox text is not an exception. However, there are certain types of texts for which the framework of this opposition is tight. It concerns the texts of folk Orthodoxy - more precisely, Russian folklore spiritual verses. The works of this genre inherit the notion of profane and sacred time from Christianity, but they transform it in their own way. The Orthodox tradition within folklore is interpreted mainly in terms of folk culture: the importance of the folk idea of triplicity increases; the concept of the mythological ideal origin of the world is actualized; the semiotic space of the Orthodox tradition is enriched with folkloric ideas about the border-time ( midnight, 12 o'clock, etc.); Friday as the day of the Crucifixion of Christ is exposed to additional sacralization (according to some spiritual verses, it is on Friday that the Ascension of Christ takes place, in substantial contradiction with the canonical tradition); events that generally did not receive the corresponding ethical evaluation in the canonical texts are endowed with an additional sacred meaning (for example, the age of the beginning of teaching the holy child)

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