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- Title
Conservation of Cultural Heritage: Visual Interpretation of Yakut Riddles.
- Authors
Filippova, Varvara; Filippova, Sargylana
- Abstract
This article presents the results of a project on the visualization of Yakut folklore texts aiming to explore figurative representations of Earth and space expressed through riddles. Folk riddles are regarded as a valuable source of material for research aimed at identifying traditional ideas about the world and its objects. A comprehensive analysis of riddles about natural phenomena, described in the forms of metaphors, reveals archaic mythological images and motifs about the structure and creation of the world. In order to construct a model of the Yakut Universe verbalized in folklore texts, the author initiated a school art project titled 'Postcards: Illustration of Yakut folklore texts'. The process of illustration was inspired by Yakut riddles collected by S.P. Oyunskaya (1975) and involved students and a teacher of Art and Technology. Within the project children conducted semantic, semiotic and interpretational analyses of Yakut riddles about the earth, the sky and celestial bodies. The children's interpretation of key metaphors resulted in the construction of a visual model of the Yakut Universe and the generation of anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and subjectrelated images of the earth and cosmic objects. The postcards with drawings were subsequently processed by InVision App and transformed into pictures with animated 3D graphics accompanied by recorded audio texts in the Yakut and Russian languages. The further promotion of the art project at various conferences as well as the publication of the animated pictures in the Sakha Republic's children's magazine contributes to the conservation of Yakut cultural heritage verbalized in riddles that metaphorically describe the world and reflect the traditional mythological worldview of the Yakut people.
- Subjects
CULTURAL property; RIDDLES; FOLKLORE; METAPHOR; 3-D animation; RUSSIAN language; ART teachers; CLASSROOM activities
- Publication
Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 2, p63
- ISSN
2069-1025
- Publication type
Article