Friday, April 1, 2011

Calories Lost Through Diahrea

Wij - Nikolai Gogol


In the work of Nikolai Gogol often appears very distinct elements of paganism, higher powers openly interfere in the plot . In some works the author says that recounts what he heard in the people, in others - there are superstitions, customs and beliefs, which came from the deep antiquity in the domestic Russian life.

product Gogol Wii, in my opinion, the most striking example dvoeveriya in Russia and the remnants of echoes of paganism in a Russian village life.

plot basis "Wii" - the story Pannochka-witches and death Homa Brut After three nights spent her coffin - a folklore character. A Tale in the general aged in a romantic literary style, in the development of the plot is based on folklore, fairy tradition. It should be noted a similar situation in the product VAZhukovsky ballad, which describes how an old woman riding on a black horse alone and who was sitting in front , where over the coffin of a dead old woman priest also prayed for three nights in the church, which tried to get the Evil One.


Home Wii, according to the author, this colossal creation of simple imagination. That name is called at the Little Russians chief gnomes. Who ever the eyes go to the ground . On this basis, the Wii should be found in other works of folklore. But oddly enough, no Russian story does not mention the Wii.

According to research Dmitry Moldova, the name of the underground spirit of the Wii came from Gogol as a result of contamination of the name of a mythological ruler of the underworld "Iron" Niya and Ukrainian words: "Virlooky, Popeye." Perhaps the word Wii comes from the Ukrainian conditions , Wijk , т.е. ресница. Характерной чертой вия были его длинные веки, поэтому очень вероятно, что свое имя он получил именно от них.

В русской и украинской Wii literature as such does not occur, but there are characters just like him. For example, in a fairy tale about Ivan Bykovicha written off by AN Afanasyev, we read about the owner of the Underworld: old man lying on railroad beds, does not see anything: long eyelashes and thick eyebrows just close your eyes. He called twelve the mighty warriors and began to tell them:
- Take-ka iron forks, raising my eyebrows and eyelashes black.

In Belarus there is a fairy tale Scrag Immortal, which the maid had to raise the eyelids, and his gaze is described as follows: a look at anyone - so he will not go away from him, though and let go - all the same, each will come to him again.

On this basis, we can conclude that the Wii owner of the Underworld, ie world of the dead. In paganism with the underground kingdom of Veles was connected. For a long time in Russia, trees, bushes and grass people called hair land , so there is nothing strange that Vélez depicted in the image of a hairy old man. On this basis, it can be argued that the name comes from the words of Veles hair , ie its origin similar to the origin of the word Wii .

With the advent of Christianity in Rus his preachers have tried to prove the falsity of the pagan gods. In some extent they succeeded, the people lost their respect for their idols, but did not stop their fear, which is why many pagan gods associated with evil spirits. Role Some of the Slavic gods moved opposite to the saints. Similarly, changes in human consciousness the perception of Veles. His patronage of livestock was transferred to St. Vlas, most likely because of consonance names. Vij took over from Vélez association with the other world and became a folk beliefs of its owner. So way Velez was divided into two hypostasis, and Gogol captured one of them in his work, the Wii.


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