Akmuo ir liga baltų ir slavų užkalbėjimuose
LTStraipsnyje nagrinėjamas ligos sutapatinimas su akmeniu baltų ir slavų užkalbėjimuose. Tokiais atvejais tam tikros negyvosios gamtos objekto - akmens savybės pasitelkiamos kaip simbolinė priemonė ligai išgydyti, kartais gana prieštaringai. Pavyzdžiui, tai, kad akmuo yra negyvas, gali reikšti žmogaus sveikatą, o akmens „gyvumas“ - progresuojančią ligą. Straipsnyje išskiriamos būdingos akmens savybių opozicijos, užkalbėjimuose skirtingais būdais pasitelkiamos gydymui. [Iš straipsnio, p. 60]
ENThe article examines the motive associated with the identification of stone and disease in Balto-Slavic spells. The properties of the stone as an object of inanimate nature are emphasised in spells with the aim of curing the patient, and it is the lifelessness of the stone that paradoxically serves as an image of a healthy person, and the signs of the stones “life” are associated with the progression of the disease leading to death. This paradox, apparently, is reflected in the contradictory roles of the stone in the spells. The stones ambivalence, its opposite roles in spells, are considered in the context of semantic oppositions: aid in healing vs. harmfulness; immobility vs. motion; immutability vs. variability; passivity vs. activity; absence vs. presence of attributes; dumbness vs. sounding; cleavage vs. integrity of the stone. The last opposition refers to the eschatological motives of the “main myth”; however, in the picture of the world of spells, paradoxically, the death of a stone (its splitting) is associated with the cessation of the disease, deliverance from witchcraft, return to health and life.
