, RELIGIOUS AND MYTHOLOGICAL IDEAS OF THE SAKHA PEOPLE IN THE CONTEXT OF MENTAL SCHEMES OF MANIFESTATION // BSU bulletin. Philosophy. - 2018. №3. Философия. Philosophy. - С. 62-69.

RELIGIOUS AND MYTHOLOGICAL IDEAS OF THE SAKHA PEOPLE IN THE CONTEXT OF MENTAL SCHEMES OF MANIFESTATION

DOI: 10.18101/1994-0866-2018-2-3-62-69 UDK: 167

The article discusses the problems of using the structural method in studying religious and mythological ideas of the Sakha people to identify stable structural formations in their mentality. We emphasize the search for structural formations of consciousness — mental schemes of manifestation in the form of dryads, triads, five-, seven- and nine- part structures of consciousness in the people’s mythology. The mythological picture of the world of the Sakha people is revealed in nine-part structures of the Upper World of Aiy deities. The origins of morality, ethics and spiritual values of the people are de- rived from nine-part structures of the Upper World. This structure is a scheme of hu- man consciousness development, including the deities of everyday life and the deities of spirituality. Here, the regularities and specific features of the genesis of philosophi- cal foundations in traditional culture, mentality, epic, mythology, and wisdom of the Sakha people are manifested.

structural method; religion; mythology; religious and mythological repre- sentations; structural consciousness formations; prefilosophy; mental images, mental schemes of manifestation; ethnic traditions; mythological picture of the world.