DREAM MOTIF IN LEGENDS ABOUT SARY ASHUG

Abstract

The place and role in the artistic system of legends is determined primarily by the mythological types of consciousness inherent in storytellers, a special way of artistic world modeling - mythologism. Dreams, considered as a mythopoetic unity, as the most important stylistic factor, make it possible to assert that legends (including ashug legends) are products of mythological consciousness.
A characteristic feature of the inner world of legends about Sary Ashug is the introduction of a dream motif into it, which often plays an important compositional role. Dreams become a central event, a plot-forming factor that determines the structure of legends as a whole, and sometimes takes on the function of a symbol. Sary Ashug entered the history of Azerbaijani ashug art as a master of the bayati genre.
The article analyzes the dream motif in legends and stories about Sary Ashug, determines the role and place of oneirology in the behavior of Svra Ashug. Based on dream texts, the article builds a typology of dreams at the semiotic level, determines their structural-mythological unity.