@ARTICLE{Movna_Ulyana_Honey_2023,
 author={Movna, Ulyana},
 volume={vol. LXXII},
 number={No 1},
 pages={29-42},
 journal={Slavia Orientalis},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN},
 abstract={Based on the author’s assembled field materials and analysis of historical, folkloristic and ethnological as well as ethnolinguistic literature, the article provides specific research into the symbolic functionality of honey in the ritual and mythological semiosphere of Ukrainians of the Carpathians and Precarpathian region, in particular – the ritualism of Christmas Eve as the prologue to Christmas. Established has been the extremely high semiotic status of honey and the presence of a stable range of polysemantic meanings. The multi‐vector semantics of honey, which was a universal symbol of sweetness, is revealed; a mediator with the afterlife; a container of the sacred; a bearer of the healing properties and connotations of the enchantment, an apotropaic, a cultural symbol that nominated the boundaries of “his”, organized by the presence of the human space. The ritual practice of tasting honey (as a separate dish or as a component of other dishes and drinks) at a pre‐Christmas dinner is considered universal not only for Ukrainians, but for many European nations.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Honey in the Ritual and Mythological Semiosphere of Ukrainians of the Carpathians and Precarpathian Region (Exemplified by Christmas Eve as the Prologue to Christmas)},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/127871/PDF-MASTER/2023-01-SOR-03.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/slo.2023.145195},
 keywords={honey, Holy evening, ritual, semiosphere, Ukrainians, the Carpathians and the Precarpathian region},
}