"Mithopoetic etiology" of stone in the Belarusian folklore

Abstract

Article is devoted to the reconstruction of "mythopoetic etiology" of stone reflected in Belarusian folk texts that explain the appearance of stones and especially their shape, composition, location in space. There held a historical-genetic and functional-semantic analysis of cosmogonic legends and ancient stories to develop their "traditions". Also it justifies a "new situation" - new in the sense that it did not exist with "ancientry" which tells the story of the "small world" and origin and sacralization of the specific stones that fill it.