Water-Bulls and Water-Cows in Oral Traditions of the World. Part 2

• Main Author: Trubarac Matić, Djordjina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Beograd : Udruženje foklorista Srbije 2023
• Subjects: water creatures; water bull; water cow; Upper Karoo tradition; Olifants River Valley tradition; the /Xam tradition; Arhangelsk tradition; Mongol tradition; Buryatian tradition; Serbian tradition; Karelian tradition; Iulia; karelia*; karelian; khanty; Yakut; Mansi; Siberia
• Online Access: https://folkloristika.org/lat/arhiva/2018/water-bulls-and-water-cows-in-oral-traditions-of-the-world-part-2.pdf; https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/15576; http://dais.sanu.ac.rs/bitstream/id/61983/water-bulls-and-water-cows-in-oral-traditions-of-the-world-part-2.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_15576

In this number of Folkloristika we will be presenting the second (and the last) part of the thematic issue dedicated to water-bulls and water-cows in the oral tradition of the world. The first part contained four papers written by Semyon Makarov (Семён Макаров), Tatyana Voldina (Татьяна Волдина), Rossen Rossenov Malchev (Росен Росенов Малчев) and Suzana Djordjević Pejović and Bojan Ristić. They covered the folklore material related to the beliefs in water-bulls from Siberia (among Yakut, Khanty and Mansi peoples) and in the Balkans (Bulgaria and Serbia). The first part of the issue offered a deeper insight into the ethnographic materials recorded in these regions, accompanied with the scholarly analysis approached from different perspectives: folkloric, ethnologic, anthropologic, semiotic, comparative and dialectological. Questions have been opened regarding the interplay between the imagery concerning water-bulls and various water formations ‒ whirlpools, lakes, springs, subterranean and other karst water-flows and forms, or certain weather phenomena, such as the frost ‒ which entail ambivalent relation between the man and the element of water: in itself, it is vitally essential, but, at the same time, dealing with it can be extremely dangerous. In this part of the issue, the same concerns can be perceived in the ethnographic materials collected in the Upper Karoo and the Olifants River Valley in South Africa (the study of José Manuel de Prada-Samper), in the north-west of Russia - the study Mikhail Garder (Михаил Гардер); in the northern Mongolia - the study of Iulia Liakhova (Юлия Викторовна Ляхова) and in the south-west Serbia (the study of Nina Aksić). Темат : Водени бикови и водене краве у усменим традицијама света 2 (ур. Ђорђина Трубарац Матић).