Sun vs Moon in the Mythopoetic Picture of the World of the Udmurt Bilingual Poet Vyacheslav Ar-Sergi

Abstract

The Russian-language creativity of national authors is one of the most relevant topics of modern research. The issue of the preserving their identity in a different language field is complex and is ambiguously covered in the scientific literature. The matter of manifestation of ethno-cultural markers in their Russian creativity is no less important. Based on the questions posed, the aim of the article was to study the imagery (on the material of Russian poetry by the Udmurt writer Vyacheslav Ar-Sergi). The analysis of his creative works is carried out on the examples of the imagines of the Sun and the Moon, which more accurately indicate the uniqueness of the religious and mythological thinking of the ethnos, as well as the level of interpenetration of different literary layers. We have found out that the dominate place is occupied by the imagine of the Sun personifying the Supreme God - Inmar in the Udmurt picture of the world. The Sun is often opposed to the Moon in Udmurt mythology. The comparative analysis has shown that the images of heavenly bodies are differently presented in the Russian-language works of V. Ar-Sergi. We have established that the Sun personifies life, rebirth, and the Moon becomes the embodiment of the mental state of lyrical subjects. Our research confirms that, in his Russian-language poetry, V. Ar-Sergi continues to broadcast intraethnic plots correlated with the narratives of world literature, mythology, culture.