To the questions about the formation of the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa image in the Nivshera’s Komi local tradition
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History, ethnography, archeology
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Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: one of the urgent tasks of modern folklore studies remains the study of local features of the images of saints, the identification of the ratio of canonical and folk characteristics, and the sources of their formation.
Objective: the article analyzes the history of the origin of the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa cult and the formation of the image of the saint in the local tradition of the Nivshera Komi people.
Research materials: handwritten archival materials and historical information about the development of the cult of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the village Lymva of Nivshera parish, as well as expeditionary audio recordings about Paraskeva Pyatnitsa and her holiday in the village Nivshera of Kortkerossky District of the Komi Republic.
Results and novelty of the research: on the basis of these materials, the author for the first describes in detail time the history of the formation of the image of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the local tradition of the Nivshera Komi people using the methodology of comparative typological comparison of historical information about the village Lymva and the characteristic features of the image of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the North Russian and Komi traditions. As a result of the analysis, possible variants for the establishment of the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa chapel feast in the village are identified; among them are the
emergence of the cult of the saint near the revered stones marking the borders, crossroads; covenant in case of a crisis situation; actualization of certain functions of the saint (patronage in trade and women); conditionality of the agricultural cycle (the boundary between sowing and haymaking was during the fest period, when it was time for summer community holidays). The scientific novelty of the work consists in the application of such methodology in the study of the history of the formation of the cult and the local image of the saint. The practical significance of the article lies in the fact that the historical
searches completed the chronicle of the village of Lymva for more than a century, and also expanded the list of chapels dedicated to Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the Komi region.
Key words: Komi, local folklore tradition, folk Orthodoxy, Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, veneration of icons
Acknowledgements: the publication is prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the Federal Research Center Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project FUUU-2021-0007 “Poetics of folklore of the peoples of the European North of Russia in synchrony and diachrony”.
For citation: Lobanova L. S. To the questions about the formation of the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa image in the Nivshera’s Komi local tradition // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2022; 12 (1): 142–151.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: one of the urgent tasks of modern folklore studies remains the study of local features of the images of saints, the identification of the ratio of canonical and folk characteristics, and the sources of their formation.
Objective: the article analyzes the history of the origin of the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa cult and the formation of the image of the saint in the local tradition of the Nivshera Komi people.
Research materials: handwritten archival materials and historical information about the development of the cult of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the village Lymva of Nivshera parish, as well as expeditionary audio recordings about Paraskeva Pyatnitsa and her holiday in the village Nivshera of Kortkerossky District of the Komi Republic.
Results and novelty of the research: on the basis of these materials, the author for the first describes in detail time the history of the formation of the image of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the local tradition of the Nivshera Komi people using the methodology of comparative typological comparison of historical information about the village Lymva and the characteristic features of the image of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the North Russian and Komi traditions. As a result of the analysis, possible variants for the establishment of the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa chapel feast in the village are identified; among them are the
emergence of the cult of the saint near the revered stones marking the borders, crossroads; covenant in case of a crisis situation; actualization of certain functions of the saint (patronage in trade and women); conditionality of the agricultural cycle (the boundary between sowing and haymaking was during the fest period, when it was time for summer community holidays). The scientific novelty of the work consists in the application of such methodology in the study of the history of the formation of the cult and the local image of the saint. The practical significance of the article lies in the fact that the historical
searches completed the chronicle of the village of Lymva for more than a century, and also expanded the list of chapels dedicated to Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the Komi region.
Key words: Komi, local folklore tradition, folk Orthodoxy, Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, veneration of icons
Acknowledgements: the publication is prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the Federal Research Center Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the state registration number of the project FUUU-2021-0007 “Poetics of folklore of the peoples of the European North of Russia in synchrony and diachrony”.
For citation: Lobanova L. S. To the questions about the formation of the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa image in the Nivshera’s Komi local tradition // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2022; 12 (1): 142–151.
