SYMBOLIC CONCEPTS OF RUSSIAN LINGUOCULTURE: PERUN-ROD AND PERYNYA-MAKOSH
The article discusses the feathered images of gods and goddesses, as indicated by the motivating signs of their names. The purpose of the study is a lexico - semantic and conceptual analysis of the divine couple names: Perun and Perynya. Their etymology and cognitive signs are considered on the language and semiotic material of paremias, texts of Russian folk tales and cultural rituals. The relevance of the work lies in the need to once again dwell on the motivating and figurative signs of the concepts represented in Russian linguoculture by the names Perun and Perynya. As a result of the study, a hypothesis was put forward about the motivating signs ‘feathered’, which underlies the names of the divine couple. The associative (cognitive) connections between their motivating signs, clearly expressing a feathered appearance, and the ability of deities to change their appearance - to turn into birds and insects are revealed (Perun - the hypostasis of the Sort - the thunderer - the bird; Perynya - the maiden - swan, the hypostasis of the Great Mother Goddess, whose name is Makosh (Mokosh); in folklore it is a ladybug, in Russian fairy tales - Chicken Ryaba) through the analysis of the etymology of the taboo names of ancient Russian gods. Their dwelling place is that light - heavens. The existence of the ancestor cult among the Slavs is confirmed. These signs are found in the images and symbols of the Russian linguoculture, transmitting myths about nature, the world and the gods