THE SMITHY IN OLONKHO BY KHANGALAS NARRATOR M. I. SAVVIN

Abstract

The relevance of the research is due to the observed today spiritual rise in the epic environment of the Sakha ethnic culture, when along with the revitalization of the authentic verbal narrative phenomenon, a laborious study of the written texts of the olonkho epic has been started with the aim of revealing the target information and hidden meanings geared by the ancestors for future generations. Given that, the study of olonkho texts as a whole is not productive, as they are known to be enormous in size, but is better to be done by oluk-fragments, representing parts of the whole. That part in our case is the oluk-fragment of olonkho “Muldjyot Bege” by Khangalas narrator Mikhail Innokentyevich Savvin about the smithy of the traditional epic black smith Kytai Bakhsy Uus, studied through the methods of semiotic, informational and hermeneutic analysis in the cultural aspect. The work was carried out based on the author`s previously studies of numerous epic texts and the historiographical examination of academic works on the subject. Having revealed the structural features of this traditional fragment of the Yakut epic olonkho, as well as a special hidden meaning laid down by the narrator in this oluk-fragment, the researcher formulates the conjectural conclusions that this oluk-fragment of the text of the local Khangalas epic olonkho the main, overarching and fateful idea of the Yakut epic heritage on the concept of building the man’s spirit in the younger generation. In conclusion, the author lists the logical, algorithmically consistent parts of the concept. As a subject of further research, one can propose a comparative study of similar traditional oluk-fragments of the Yakut olonkho about Kytai Bakhsy black smith, in order to finalize the elaborated concept of the education of boys with the development of socio-cultural projects for the reconstruction of specialized national schools called Uus Kysata in rural areas dominated by the indigenous Yakut population. Such schools will be part of the triune complex of the spiritual centers of the Yakut society, the other two components of which will be the Olonkho House and the Sakha Religious Culture Houses.

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