유고슬라비아 구비문학의 종교적 기호와 상징체계 연구

Abstract

It is characteristic of the serbian and croatian oral lyric poetry that it expresses emotion through external events, usually in an indirect way. In the earliest periods it expressed the wishes, requests, joy and sadness of the collective, and later it included individual emotions well. The indirect and objective means of expression in the serbian and croatian lyric poetry, manifests itself in the complete saturation and unity of its content and form. In oral lyric songs the events are only a tool for the expression of emotions, thus demanding of the singer that he search for the most suitable parallel event or description which will express that emotion. Before Christianity is accommodated, Ancient Slavic people, especially South Slavic people had a tendency to lean their lives on natural phenomena and the natural environment, and they personified almost natural things by bringing in of souls. Folk beliefs of ancient Slavic people on natural things had undergone a change by the propagation and the acceptance of Christianity. ‘Religious Symbol’ which is included in serbian and croatian oral literature has two sides of characteristics. The First is the connotation about the meaning of human life and the meaning of the cosmic system. And the second is the Christianity that is accommodated after the Middle Ages in the Balkan Peninsula. Specifically, this study looks into the essential religious elements and meanings through the several serbian oral poetry and croatian myth.