Lytvynenko G. Calendar and ritual songs: archetype and image-bearing system in a folklore consciousness

Dissertation contains theoretical and experimental investigations of an archetype and image-bearing layer of a folk song; correlation of an archetype and image-bearing sources; and, of an archetype (subconscious source) study in a popular poetic memory, in particular. The methodics of finding out of an archetype and image bearing-sphere in a folk song is made. Ukrainian folk songs of a calendar and image-bearing cycle are examined. They make up a unique genre system whish contains the whole period of a creative reflection of everyday events from the ancient time (mythology in songs) to a modern folk songs. A lyric origin of an individual and a self-created author is vividly depicted at the background of a collective and author source. An experiment in a conceptual design, of a folk song not only as a text system (of symbolic and image-bearing pattern, containing original basis, such as pre-expression, pre-thought, pre-text, created mentally, felt in rhythm, symbol, color and bioenergetic structures is done which causes a motif fixed in a consciousness? Selective examination of three layers of a popular and poet thinking in a family life, social and historic mode of life is made. Dynamics of a further development of a poetic consciousness is examined, where strong dependence of a family life lyrics on an image-bearing destiny, as a system of being, can not be changed (mythological thinking) in a social mode of life with a focus on social aspect of life (salt traders, farm labourers, barge handlers, recruits), that is, songs on a social discrimination as a symbol of destiny. But historic songs erase a mystic contents in interpretation of a life being.