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and others. Unfavorable numbers were understood as images of chaos, barrenness, evil (for example, 13 and others). The postulation of an abstract image of favorable and unfavorable numbers, even and odd.
The semantic — determining the qualitative structure of the world, the series of oppositions describing the world, organizing it. Binary signs: spatial (up — down, heaven — earth, earth — underworld; right — left; east — west; north — south), temporal (day — night; spring — summer — autumn — winter), color (white — black — red), natural (wet — dry; raw — cooked; water — fire), social (male — female; elder — younger; ancestor — descendant; one’s own — stranger; near — far; inner — outer).”
That is, you see, it is the same very essence of this polarity. This is very important. “All the left and all the right members of opposition form certain unities, the relations between which are more general oppositions, not localized in a spatial- temporal, nor in a natural, nor in a social sense. Happiness — unhappiness, fortune — misfortune, life — death, even — odd — the most abstract of their numerical designations. On the basis of these sets of signs arise universal semantic complexes, which are used by the primitive consciousness as a way of explaining the world — the model of the Universe.”
“Model of the Universe. In the mytho-poetic awareness of space and time as non- homogeneous, the highest value, the maximum of sacredness, belongs to that point in space and time where the act of creation took place, the center of the world, that is, the middle of the world. And in the beginning — the very time of creation, mythical time. Cosmological conceptions are connected with these coordinates, which create the scheme of the unfolding of everything that exists in space-time, organize the entire space-time continuum.”
This must be taken into account.
Well, and there are also different images in mythology. “In the most ancient myths the world, the Earth, the Universe could often be depicted in the form of an animal. Since a zoomorphic vision of the world was widespread, the Earth was conceived as a gigantic cosmic beast, and there were conceptions
The semantic — determining the qualitative structure of the world, the series of oppositions describing the world, organizing it. Binary signs: spatial (up — down, heaven — earth, earth — underworld; right — left; east — west; north — south), temporal (day — night; spring — summer — autumn — winter), color (white — black — red), natural (wet — dry; raw — cooked; water — fire), social (male — female; elder — younger; ancestor — descendant; one’s own — stranger; near — far; inner — outer).”
That is, you see, it is the same very essence of this polarity. This is very important. “All the left and all the right members of opposition form certain unities, the relations between which are more general oppositions, not localized in a spatial- temporal, nor in a natural, nor in a social sense. Happiness — unhappiness, fortune — misfortune, life — death, even — odd — the most abstract of their numerical designations. On the basis of these sets of signs arise universal semantic complexes, which are used by the primitive consciousness as a way of explaining the world — the model of the Universe.”
“Model of the Universe. In the mytho-poetic awareness of space and time as non- homogeneous, the highest value, the maximum of sacredness, belongs to that point in space and time where the act of creation took place, the center of the world, that is, the middle of the world. And in the beginning — the very time of creation, mythical time. Cosmological conceptions are connected with these coordinates, which create the scheme of the unfolding of everything that exists in space-time, organize the entire space-time continuum.”
This must be taken into account.
Well, and there are also different images in mythology. “In the most ancient myths the world, the Earth, the Universe could often be depicted in the form of an animal. Since a zoomorphic vision of the world was widespread, the Earth was conceived as a gigantic cosmic beast, and there were conceptions