The Axiosphere of the Mari Epic Consciousness Based on the Materials of the Heroic Epic “Yugorno. The Song of the Prophetic Path”

The paper is devoted to the study of the cosmogonic narratives of the Mari people with a projection on the problem of epic consciousness. The purpose of the study is to recreate the value choice of epic heroes through the interaction of the axiological dominants of the Mari ethnic world based on the materials of A. Spiridonov’s poetic creation “Yugorno. A song about the prophetic path.” The novelty of the work lies in the fact that, against the background of studying the ethnological aspects of the formation of the axiological paradigm of Mari literature, the problem of reconstructing the axiosphere of the Mari epic is actualised, which is defined as the space of existence of spiritual, physical, mental, emotional factors of the formation of the Mari world. This approach is fundamentally new not only for Mari, but also for the entire Finno-Ugric literary criticism. The existing Russian research experience accumulated by representatives of various scientific fields contains elements of axiological analysis of traditional epic texts. Focusing on the theoretical and methodological foundations of such studies allows us to assert that a necessary condition for effective cultural transmission of values is to identify the content of the axiological dominants of traditional folk culture, to study both the host and nurturing, as well as well as the ethno-cultural landscape.