SYNCRETISM OF PUBLIC MYTHOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF ANCIENT TIMES

Abstract

This article examines the syncretism of the public mythological consciousness of the ancient era. The main features of this phenomenon include essential anthropomorphism, syncretism, syncretism. The texts of the Old Testament are analyzed, which show that the Old Testament syncrets are creative borrowings from the Sumerian written culture. The transition from the appropriating type of management to the producing type gives rise to reflection and criticality of human thinking. This contributes to the destruction of mythological consciousness and the emergence of initial scientific forms. Methods and techniques of diachronic linguistics and techniques of cognitive description of ancient and medieval texts make it possible to establish the semantics of linguistic units - syncrets that have turned into “frozen metaphors”. Syncrets are a consequence of anthropomorphism and syncretism of mythological consciousness; they were preserved in the vocabulary of modern languages after the annihilation of ancient mythological consciousness.