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Aspects of Reflecting the Devil in Ancient Iranian Mythology
Zaicová, Darina ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Čierniková, Beáta (referee) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
The mythological form creates syntactic symbolic categories within it's own unique functional principles according to the limits of the human mind to create mental representations. But mythological symbols exists far beyond their metaphoric reflection, they are functional categories, involving the ontological, cognitive, semiotic and a narrative level. The mythological figure of the devil is determined by it's function in the story, it exists always in opposition. In Iranian Mazdaism it stays for the opponent of the supreme god and playing a role as an intertextual item, the devil several times metamorphoses itself on the narrative level. And as a cultural item the mythological devil can be seen as structural link in the structure of the culture. Keywords Mental representation, sign, symbolic form, oponent, mazdaism, structuralism
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Aspects of Reflecting the Devil in Ancient Iranian Mythology
Zaicová, Darina ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Čierniková, Beáta (referee) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
The mythological form creates syntactic symbolic categories within it's own unique functional principles according to the limits of the human mind to create mental representations. But mythological symbols exists far beyond their metaphoric reflection, they are functional categories, involving the ontological, cognitive, semiotic and a narrative level. The mythological figure of the devil is determined by it's function in the story, it exists always in opposition. In Iranian Mazdaism it stays for the opponent of the supreme god and playing a role as an intertextual item, the devil several times metamorphoses itself on the narrative level. And as a cultural item the mythological devil can be seen as structural link in the structure of the culture. Keywords Mental representation, sign, symbolic form, oponent, mazdaism, structuralism
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