The oral folk tradition has its roots in deep antiquity, and Christianity, as a cultural model, emerged in more recent historical times-although it, too, draws largely on folklore. Therefore, the pre-Christian folk tradition of the Slavs was able to assimilate many Christian concepts, symbols, and texts, translate them into its own language and fill them with its own content.Ĭhristianity and the oral folk tradition represent two different cultural models that have coexisted in the same ethno-cultural space since the adoption of Christianity by the Slavs. The Slavic folk tradition adapted not only the individual elements, structures and semantic categories of Christianity, but also the whole texts, plots, motifs, and themes developed in various folklore genres. The mechanism for regulating the balance between man and the world is a system of prohibitions, the violation of which is recognized as sin and is punished by natural disasters, death, disease and human misfortunes. The Christian saints replaced pagan gods and over time were included in the system of folk ideas, beliefs and rituals. The same can be said about the folk cult of saints. In many cases, it only superficially accepted the Christian content of calendar elements and reinterpreted it in accordance with the traditional mythological notions. The most dependent area of Slavic folk culture on Christianity was the calendar. The different areas of folk culture were influenced to varying degrees by the Christian tradition. In Slavic folk culture, Christianity is a foreign, borrowed cultural model, while the oral tradition is native and familiar.
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