UDC 398.3
DOI: 10.36871/hon.202302136
Authors
Svetlana A. Sitnikova,
Branch of the Russian State University named after A. N. Kosygin
(Technologies. Design. Art), 170100, Russian Federation, Tver
Abstract
The article is carried out in line with the author's long–term research of Tver traditional culture
and is a continuation of publications devoted to one of the most important elements of
traditional calendar rites — the cult of plants [23]. The article describes a group of cultivated
plants that are used in Tver calendar-agrarian ritual system. From the vast flora of Tver calendar
ritual and mythological field, evidence of cultivated plants — hops and peas — were selected
and systematized for the article. Folklore and ethnographic materials on each plant are
grouped according to their incantation and prophetic ritual-magical functions in Tver winter
rite practices, which determined the structure of the article. The expedition materials, which
form the basis of this work, together with the identified printed evidence, replenish and enrich
the picture of phytolatry in Tver calendar ritual tradition, allowing to see Tver ritual plant
veneration as a rich tradition, preserving archaic ideological meanings.
In accordance with the requirements of modern folklore studies, the materials obtained in
expedition research through conversations with locals in the areas under study are presented
with the highest possible preservation of the local dialect and dialect vocabulary. In addition,
each testimony is accompanied by an exact indication of the informant's surname, first name,
patronymic, place and year of birth, as well as the time and place of the recording of the conversation.
Keywords
Tver calendar rites, cultivated plants, ceremonial functions of plants, phytolatry, local tradition
