Cultural Meanings and Audiovisual Symbols of Songs About Smallpox Treatment in Adyghe Healing and Magical Rite Chapsh

Main Article Content

Andzhela V. Gucheva

Abstract

The article examines the sacred roots, semantic motivations and vectors of the reconstruction of the audiovisual symbol cultural meanings in the song for the smallpox treatment (farekIuered) in the Adyghe healing-magical rite chapsh. Within the framework of one song, the general state of the action aimed at curing the disease is shown, it is explicated the reason for its sounding as a magical motive for influencing on the disease, indicated by a motivating metaphorical text with metonymic symbols that predict a happy outcome.
The purpose of the article is to consider descriptive constructions of the musical and poetic texts of treating smallpox song as special analytical form for conveying the semantics of the intensity of a deity image and the disease symbolism, which gained a “social” status and act as marked lexemes of the tradition.


Keywords: Circassians, Adyghes, Shapsugs, musical picture of the world, Adyghe healing-magical rite chapsh, song for the smallpox treatment (ferekI uered), the lord of smallpox Estaoui-Staupshcha, Estau-Stau-Vladyka.

Article Details

How to Cite
Gucheva А. В. (2023). Cultural Meanings and Audiovisual Symbols of Songs About Smallpox Treatment in Adyghe Healing and Magical Rite Chapsh . Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 51(2), 107–115. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1450
Section
Musical Cultures of Russia
Author Biography

Andzhela V. Gucheva, Institute of Humanitarian Studies – Branch of the Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nalchik, Russia

PhD (History), Associate Professor, Senior Researcher of the Ethnology and Ethnography Sector