A Mountain: Nature-Existential Object in the Light of Cosmological Views (on the Materials of North-Russian Mythological Stories)

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Key words
natural object, landscape, model of the Universe, anthropomorphization, mythological tradition, transformation, rethinking
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Krinichnaya N.
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The paper deals with the problem of cosmization of space and one of its components — mountain or an elevation equated thereto. This natural-existentional object is personified and anthropomorphized. Thus, the image of mountain in the mythological tradition stems from the anthropomorphic model of the Universe.