Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Image of the Mother in Turkic Mythology and its Significance for the Development of Creative Industries of Regional Tourism (on the Example of the Fine Arts of Altai)

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (8)
Authors
Balakina, Elena I.; Nekhviyadovich, Larisa I.
Contact information
Balakina, Elena I.: Altai State University Barnaul, Russian Federation; ; Nekhviyadovich, Larisa I.: Altai State University Barnaul, Russian Federation
Keywords
the image of the mother; Turkic mythology; creative industries; tourism of the Altai Territory; Altai artists; sacred; symbolism; artistic perspective; painting
Abstract

The article is devoted to identifying the sacred meaning of the image of the mother in the Turkic mythology and the creative potential of its modern artistic incarnations in the visual arts of Altai, including in relation to the practices of creative industries in tourism in the Altai Territory. The image of the mother in the worldviews of the Altai peoples has a cross-cultures archetypal character and manifests itself at all systemic levels of their three-sphere mythological model of the universe – cosmological, generic and personal. The sacred attitude to the mother, the spiritual and symbolic expression of her sacred nature in the Altai tradition is as hierarchical as the figurative and symbolic mythological model of the world itself. The comprehension of the spiritual meanings of the image of the mother produced out from the standpoint of a systematic analysis of the fundamental axiological complex of Altai mythology and the semantic field of semiotic constructions in the artistic compositions of modern painters of Altai. This approach made it possible to reveal a number of features in the compositions and figurative language of the visual arts of Altai, due to the poetic type of artistic and figurative thinking of representatives of traditional Altai culture. They concern the semantic parity of real and sacred space, the creation and application of creative ways of constructing an artistic perspective, as well as the use of traditional figurative and semantic mythological symbolism, enriched by the free flight of the author’s spiritual and figurative fantasy. In the spiritual and aesthetic aspect, the fine arts of Altai fully meet the current trends of the cultural industries in changing the semantic vector from the “culture of consumption” to the “culture of impressions”. The internal meaningful and semantic game potential of literary texts is able to enrich the development of the concept of the tourism sector of Altai with cultural, ideological blocks of intellectual games aimed at self-knowledge of the individual for residents and guests of the region, the discovery of the sacred spiritual depth and beauty of the world

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1271–1284
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OHTBPJ
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/150846

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