HAIR SYMBOLISM IN RUSSIAN WEDDING LAMENTATIONS

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI:10.28995/2658-5294-2023-6-1-74-92

S. K. Mamonova

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The paper is an attempt to identify the main symbolic meanings of the girl’s braid in the texts of wedding lamentations. In the modern researches (works of E.L. Madlevskaya, S.M. Tolstaya, A.V. Gura) the braid was considered only as one subject substitute for the volya/krásota an abstract concept that combined the idea of youth, beauty, virginity of a girl and her reaching childbearing age. In our work, we tried to show that a girl’s hair/braid has a number of eigenvalues. The braid can be interpreted as a symbol of girlish freedom, and this freedom can be of different: it is freedom of choice, freedom of participation in ritual and behavioral practices, relative freedom of appearance. The braid also can have mythological meaning: it can be thought of as a means of testing the groom. Also, the braid is an integral part of the appearance of the bride, which is constantly transforming depending on the stage of the ceremony. In the lamentations related to different stages of the wedding, we note a different configuration of hair: when a girl leaves her family her hair is uncombed and loose. When the groom and his family come the bride appears in all the best. In this way, through a change in hairstyle, changes in the social status of the girl can be reflected.

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头发在俄罗斯婚礼上的象征意义

本文试图找出婚礼哀歌文本中少女辫子的主要象征意义。在现代研究(E.L. Madlevskaya, S.M. Tolstaya, A.V. Gura的作品)中，辫子被认为只是volya/krásota的一个主题替代品，volya/krásota是一个抽象的概念，结合了年轻，美丽，女孩的童贞和她达到生育年龄的想法。在我们的工作中，我们试图证明一个女孩的头发/辫子有许多特征值。辫子可以被解释为少女自由的象征，这种自由可以是不同的:它是选择的自由，是参与仪式和行为实践的自由，是外表的相对自由。辫子也可以有神话意义:它可以被认为是考验新郎的一种手段。此外，辫子是新娘外观的一个组成部分，它随着仪式的阶段而不断变化。在与婚礼的不同阶段有关的哀歌中，我们注意到头发的不同配置:当一个女孩离开她的家人时，她的头发没有梳理，松散。当新郎和他的家人来的时候，新娘出现在最美好的画面中。这样，通过发型的变化，就可以反映出女孩社会地位的变化。

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