Syncretic writings of mythological consciousness in the written medieval monuments
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This article examines the syncretism of mythological consciousness within the framework of the oldest written monuments. The relevance of the study is determined by the analysis of the main features of this phenomenon: syncretism, anthropomorphism of essence, and syncretic writings. Examples from the texts of the Old Testament, syncretic writings in the Old Turkic, Middle Greek and Old Russian languages are used. The syncretic writings of Old Testament are a creative borrowing from the Sumerian language. The works of both European and Asian scientists dealing with the problems of mythological consciousness are analysed to determine the goals and objectives of this study. When studying the empirical data, the methods and techniques of diachronic linguistics, and the techniques of cognitive description of ancient and medieval texts were used to define the semantics of linguistic units (syncretic writings turned into "frozen metaphors"). In addition, syncretic writings extracted from ancient and medieval texts demonstrate that they stemmed from the phenomenon of syncretism and anthropomorphism of the mythological consciousness of the pre-historic era. These syncretic writings have become part of the vocabulary of modern languages and are preserved in active languages. As a result of the research and a critical review of the sources, the authors identified the main features of mythological consciousness: syncretism and anthropomorphism, which contribute to the creation of myths. Therefore, a hypothesis developed that the Ural-Altaic language family, which is agglutinative in nature, may be originating from the Sumerian language of the archaic era.
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