EVOLUTIONAL SPECIFICS OF ADYGE FOLKLORIC ARCHETYPES
The article reveals certain peculiarities of the process of forming esthetic conceptions in Adyge folklore. The paper emphasizes that specificity of social development of the Adygei peoples conditioned the virtual syncretism of the various phased forms of folkloric continuum and reality when even the most archaic images and symbols of an epos are interpreted as the real subjects of a national world. The author attributes the destruction of this monolithic system of vital esthetic conceptions to the crisis and continuous process of decay of the classical military and aristocratic society of Circassian tribes and formation of the modern Adygei peoples.