Metaphysical measurements of the process of transition from myth to fairy tale

• Main Author: V. Yatchenko
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion (UARR) 2002-05-01
• Series: Українське Pелігієзнавство
• Online Access: https://uars.info/index.php/uars/article/view/1333

The process of turning a myth into a fairy tale, its internal and external causes, patterns, consequences ... It may be difficult to find a more traditional way of exploring a fairy tale than this one. We will not avoid it either, because whatever aspect of the fairy tale analysis we choose, it is impossible to bypass this side of its genesis. And the choice of the method of explication of this problem largely predetermines both the angle of her vision and the means of solution. The same traditions have already been given peculiar power lines that urge more and more researchers to move in the area of ​​these lines and to cover more and more varieties of the same dimensions of the object: demythologization and desacralization of the hero, his actions, his environment; giving the myth an exoteric character, with the elements of fiction and irony that are inconceivable as a result; the shrinking of the scale of the hero's actions, and hence the replacement of the mystery of myth with mysteriousness, intrigue in the fairy tale, the decline of the mythological worldview. The topics of branching of the subjects through the myth to the fairy tale, finding and researching common for both phenomena of binary oppositions, etc., are densely addressed.