HOUSE OF MAN AND DEITY: SACRED CHARACTERISTICS OF ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT
The article considers the space of traditional dwelling house and temple, determines their sacred characteristics, which are conditioned by the archetype of the collective unconscious. The author reveals that the assignment of magical properties to architectural structures occurs due to their high axiological status, because of the utilitarian necessity of buildings and ideas about the ritual and ceremonial functions of the house; and comes to the conclusion about the homologous semiotic content of man's and deity's dwellings.