Calendar-numerical characteristics of epic texts: part II

Abstract

In the paper we continue the analysis of calendar-numerical characteristics of epic texts, with the inclusion of ancient Egyptian (the Tale of the Pharaoh Khufu), the Story Peteite III, of the epic Beowulf, the Song of my side of Olonkho Kyys debiliye, Eles Bootur, Latvian lāčplēsis, Tuvan Hunan Kara, Bartug Kirish, Albini (Khakas). The dominance of the number “three” in all the studied epic texts relating to the peoples inhabiting the Northern part of Eurasia, from Scandinavia (Beowulf) and Karelia (Kalevala), Pomorie (epics), and ending with Yakutia (Nyurgun botur, Kyys debiliye) and Buryatia (Geser) was revealed. In Western European texts uniformity is missing, in the text Sid's, and one version of Roland, also dominates the number of “three”, but in the second version of Roland dominates the number of “two”. In the southern texts (Gilgamesh, Odyssey) is dominated by the number 7, 12. In economic texts from Ancient Egypt, dominated by the “five” and its derivatives, and the number “two” and “ten”. At the same time, in the North Eurasian texts, the “five” has either a low frequency or is absent. Extension of the accounting field in the Siberian texts is mainly reduplicatia, with the formation of mixed decimal numbers. This method of expanding the numerical field in Western (Roland, Syd) and southern (Gilgamesh, Odyssey) texts is unknown. The number of third or more discharges are generated by everywhere decaterina. In texts belonging to the classical group (Roland, Sid), the frequency of large (100 or more) numbers is very high. It is revealed, that some “strange” numbers (13 and 73, Geser) are related to the account and time accounting (calendar). The version of the calendar-numerical marking of the hero's image (Geser) is considered. According to preliminary data (Olonkho Kyys Debiliye), the numerical appearance of the “female” text differs by the dominant number “eight” from the “male” Olonkho, in which the “nine” dominates. Taking second place after the “Troika”, the numbers 9 and 8 change places. Numeric complex 6-7 the texts of Olonkho is almost there (1-2 times), in the ekhirit-bulagat version of Geser, he also appears a little (9%).

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