Metaforyczne sposoby ujmowania Boga i relacji Bóg – człowiek w przysłowiach polskich

Abstract

The aim of the author is an attempt to show metaphoric ways of presenting God and the relations God-man in Polish proverbs. The analysis of the research material shows that figurative images of God are strictly related to everyday life and daily occupations of an average user of Polish, especially trade, craft, construction, medicine, finances, education. It is not odd that these branches of life, generally acknowledged and respected, have become a basis for depictions of God as the highest value. It is also vital that metaphorical images of God and His relations to man are identical with the Christian idea of the Creator. What is more, almost all the metaphors of God present in the research material have their equivalents in the quotations from the Scriptures. Thus, we observe both the influence of the Bible on common images of the nature of God and the impact of the original (dating back to the times when the Bible was coming into existence), ‘naïve’ and commmon-sense vision of the world on biblical images of the Creator.