Cosmic Images and Metaphors in Mongolian Riddles
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00139741" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00139741 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://viet.phil.muni.cz/aktualne/clanky/workshop-visions-and-indigenous-scholarship-in-inner-and-southeast-asia-december-17-2024" target="_blank" >https://viet.phil.muni.cz/aktualne/clanky/workshop-visions-and-indigenous-scholarship-in-inner-and-southeast-asia-december-17-2024</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cosmic Images and Metaphors in Mongolian Riddles
Original language description
In this presentation, illustrated with sides and diagrams, I spoke of cosmic imagery and metaphors in Mongolian riddles. Traditionally, the role of Mongolian riddles was not only to develop the verbal dexterity of interlocutors, not least children, but perhaps even more importantly, to transmit a vision of the surrounding world. This would seem likely to explain the abundance of intensely vivid images of the cosmos, the heavens (sky, Tenger), and the earth, not to mention the role of human beings, whose task it is to participate in maintaining a balance between these masculine and feminine poles. These themes, in the Mongolian riddle corpus, are encoded in visual metaphor and specific spatial tropes. I also spoke of the cosmic mirroring principle evident in these riddles, as well as the principal of reciprocity between Tenger and Gazar, sky and earth.
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GM23-07108M" target="_blank" >GM23-07108M: Changing Adaptive Strategies of Mobile Pastoralists in Mongolia: Dynamics in Community Histories and Movement Patterns Documented Through Oral Sources</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů