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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   СЕМАНТИЧЕСКИЕ ОППОЗИЦИИ ’СЕРЫЙ’ / ’БУРЫЙ’, ’БЕЛЫЙ’ / ’ЧЕРНЫЙ’ И ИХ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К ’ПЁСТРОМУ’ (’КОТ’ И ’МЫШЬ’ ВФОЛЬКЛОРЕ ВОСТОЧНЫХ И ЗАПАДНЫХ СЛАВЯН) / SEMANTIC OPPOSITIONS ’GREY’ / ’BROWN’, ’WHITE’ / ’BLACK’ AND THEIR ATTITUDE TO ’PARTICOLOURED’ (’CAT’ AND ’MOUSE’ IN FOLKLORE OF EASTERN AND WESTERN SLAVS).

Authors:  MARGARITA NADEL-CZERWINSKA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The folklore- mythological world sensation, initial for any national tradition, in its archaics always simulates the world according to the ancient representations about mythical ’model of the world’ and under its laws. To the cardinal points of spatial model of the world thus there correspond its north, east, south, west, with the invisible centre. The spatial model is a plane projection of mythological model of the world. As an archetype – in Polish, Ukrainian and Russian folklore the system of the national tradition texts reflects the same mythological spatial model.

Keywords: mythical ’model of the world’, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian folklore, mythological spatial model 		 
         
     
         
         
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