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Name: Path and movement in the plot of legends about icons (on the problem of the Christian symbols of water and air)

Authors: Zhurova Ludmila Ivanovna

Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: Many medieval stories about icons are based on the motif of a sacral object journey. Delineating conceptions of «path» and «move», it is possible to define functionality features of these concepts in the legendary plots composition. In the paper a question is raised about the Christian symbols of water and air.

Keywords: stories about icons, path and movement, plot, roman, iver, tikhvin, vladimir, tolga, and albatskaya icons, biblical text, water symbol, elements of air

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