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• Mencej, Mirjam [Browse]

Series

Studia Mythologica Slavica Supplementa Supplementum 7

Summary note

• This book ('I was wandering in circles the whole night long. The symbolism of circular movement in European traditional culture') researches the common symbolism of the circular movement in European tradition and culture through the ethnographical, historical and linguistic sources from different regions of Europe and from different historical periods. The circular movement is identifyed as the movement which is in traditional world view and understanding of the space caracteristic for the movements between this world and the other. At the same time it enables the communication between the worlds and transmition from one to the other.
• Knjiga na podlagi etnografskih, folklorističnih, zgodovinskih, jezikovnih, ikonografskih in literarnih virov iz različnih geografskih območij Evrope in iz različnih obdobij evropske zgodovine identificira skupen simbolizem krožnega gibanja v evropski tradicijski kulturi. Krožno gibanje se pokaže kot gibanje, ki je v tradicijskem razumevanju prostora značilno za prostor med svetovoma živih in mrtvih, prostor, ki pomeni mejo med tema svetovoma, obenem pa omogoča tudi komunikacijo med njima ter prehajanje iz enega v drugega.;This book ('I was wandering in circles the whole night long. The symbolism of circular movement in European traditional culture') researches the common symbolism of the circular movement in European tradition and culture through the ethnographical, historical and linguistic sources from different regions of Europe and from different historical periods. The circular movement is identifyed as the movement which is in traditional world view and understanding of the space caracteristic for the movements between this world and the other. At the same time it enables the communication between the worlds and transmition from one to the other.
• Knjiga na podlagi etnografskih, folklorističnih, zgodovinskih, jezikovnih, ikonografskih in literarnih virov iz različnih geografskih območij Evrope in iz različnih obdobij evropske zgodovine identificira skupen simbolizem krožnega gibanja v evropski tradicijski kulturi. Krožno gibanje se pokaže kot gibanje, ki je v tradicijskem razumevanju prostora značilno za prostor med svetovoma živih in mrtvih, prostor, ki pomeni mejo med tema svetovoma, obenem pa omogoča tudi komunikacijo med njima ter prehajanje iz enega v drugega.

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Slovenian

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Sem vso noč lutal v krogu

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