ТО THE QUESTION OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE IMAGE OF A HORSE ON THE ICONS OF ST. DMITRY SOLUNSKY: REFLECTED AND RON-REFLECTED CONNOTATIONS (A CULTURAL-MENTAL ASPECT) IN THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF THE ICON

Abstract

The purpose of this article is posing the question of the symbolism in the imaged of a horse. The reflect connotations and non-reflect connotations (cultural-mental aspect) in the semantic field of an icon on the example of the iconography of St. Dmitry Solunsky. The icons carries the complex symbolism contents. An icon is a link, which ties the earthen/folk with the spiritual. The iconographic image is a symbolism if we consider it as an individual system with some contamination processes. This research is devoted to the peculiarities of the image of the horse in the iconographic plot the miracle of Kaloyan. Conducted a series of semantic parallels that demonstrate mapping latent connections (orthodox religion and national perception) in the iconography XVI–XXI centuries. In the addition, other additional data were also used: the lives of the saints, some fairy tales, legends, proverbs, the symbolism of the dreams in the folk and orthodox tradition. The methodology. In the course of the work, such methods as the method of the comparative analysis, the cultural-structural and semantic methods of the investigation were used. To analyze the symbols of the experimental thematic unit, there were to reveal such issues as the symbolics of the horse, the meaning of the direction of the horse’s movement, the symbolics of the direction of the horse’s head. The scientific novelty of the research is in: using cultural-mental semantics used by the folk culture and Orthodox Church for the disclosure of connotation processes in the iconography. It is necessary to note that the colours of the horses are red at more cases. As to the question of the head’s turning of the horse, in majority of the icons, a horse is depicted in profile. Conclusions. The horse always occupies the secondary position. The image of a horse has become a latent rudimentary component. It includes the element of the mental perception and the idealized (“in itself”) block. The last compiles its own confrontation “friend or foe”.