Kryvenko A. Calendar layer of Volyn demonology: philosophical and ritual manifestations

Object: calendar ceremony of Volynians. Goal: historical and ethnographic reconstruction and versatile scientific characteristic of traditional folk demonological perceptions represented in the calendar insights, customs and rites of the Volynians. Methods: field observation, typological analysis, structural-functional, comparative-historical, reconstructive, structural-semantic. Results: for the first time a special ethnological study of folk demonology of Volynians was carried out; a stratum of demonologically marked calendar events was analyzed separately; a considerable amount of new field material that was collected in the scientific circulation, collected in various, in particular, in the still little explored regions of Volhynia (Brody, Busk, Bilohirya, Starokostyantynivka, Khoroshiv, Pulyn districts, etc.), as well as valuable data available in unpublished archives of ethnographers at the beginning of the XX century. The technique of empirical and analytical research in the mythological outlook of Ukrainians and traditional folk rituals, methodological tools for analysis of typology, semantics, philosophical grounds, forms of ritual display of the components of the national demonological tradition, ways of expanding the source base of the rituals studies (author's development of special thematic programs for collecting field ethnographic materials about the calendar ritual and demonology of Ukrainians) were improved. Scope of use: for the preparation of general works on popular demonology, philosophical beliefs, calendar ritual of Volynians and Ukrainians in general; development of separate aspects and problems of ethnological science; study of ethnographic and regional topics in secondary schools and higher educational institutions; popularization of Ukrainian ethnographic traditions in the media sphere, fiction and cinematography.