Potseluyko A. Indo-european mythological-religious archetypes in reflection of Ukrainian spiritual tradition.

The dissertation presents the research of the Ukrainian ethnic culture heritage using the methodologies of the modern comparative Indo-European mythology and on the basis of the conclusions of the comparative Indo-European linguistics. Some Indo-European social and functional archetypes are reconstructed and analysed in this investigation. Indo-European mythological images in reflection of Ukrainian folklore and specific Ukrainian mythological images in the context of Indo-European mythological fund are researched. The dissertation is devoted to the research of prephilosophical outlook of ancient Slavic tribes. This investigation is based on the methodologies of modern comparative Indo-European mythology, namely on the theory of trifunctional Indo-European ideology structure (the Dumezil's theory), and also on the Propps theory of fairy-tale morphology.