THE IMAGE OF A GORDON IN THE YAKUT CULTURE: THE FUNCTION OF A MEDIATOR BETWEEN THE WORLDS
The relevance of this article is dictated by the need to study one of the main components of the Yakut geocultural landscape - the liminal road system, which is considered as a single artistic system. In this regard, the scientific novelty of the article is obvious: it consists in the need to comprehend the liminal (intermediate) space as a semantic structure, which manifests itself in the constancy of images, universals that have a cultural-historical, mental community. The study of one of the interesting aspects of the local text - the intermediate space in the context of the national picture of the world on folklore, ethnographic and literary materials - has not received detailed development in Yakut science to this day. The purpose of this article is to identify the role and function of the road person in determining the boundaries and boundaries of space. The interest in the liminal (intermediate) chronotope and the road as a special chronotopic complex is emphasized, reinforcing with its presence other spatial structures, or rather the toposes of Alas (villages) and cities, without which it is impossible to function an integral geopoetic picture of the Yakut world. In the context of the stated topic, the study of the image of a literary hero, a small town (a «town»), whose actualization of consciousness is determined by modifications of the surrounding landscape, receives a new semantic load. The author of the article adheres to the position when the process of evolution of the hero of the path, which is fully revealed in the liminal space of the road, most clearly shows the cultural signs of perception of the problem of life and death, which in different historical and cultural periods receive unexpectedly interesting properties. The conclusions outlined in this article can be used in the development of problems of the cultural landscape, ethno-cultural criteria of identity in modern conditions, which have become the most relevant in recent years in Russian science.