The Twin Myth in the East Christian manuscripts
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The article reveals a layer of archaic images and representations associated with the mythological motif of twinning in the East Christian post-Canonical manuscripts. The Christian interpretation of the mythologem of twinning is investigated based on the analysis of the semantic structure of Eastern Christian texts, in the first place - the texts devoted to the hagiography of St. Thomas, and other Old Russian manuscripts. А number of the sources under consideration have the status of liturgical texts. Such mythopoetic paradigms as similarity in the biography of twins, bodily markers of twinhood, the motif of the confrontation of twins: the hero and the trickster, the female hypostasis of the twin, the mythopoetic of the name and numerical symbolism are revealed. The Eucharistic symbolism of the touch gesture, which has become key in Eastern Christian imagery, is considered.
- Свиридова Любовь Олеговна
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