Дискурс корабля в мифологии (к вопросу об изучении интрадискурса Ноева ковчега)

Abstract

This article is devoted to the analysis of the ship discourse in the world mythology, and Noah Ark’s intradiscourse study in particular. The ship is regarded as one of the components of the universal mythopoetic triad together with tree and rose. In the framework of the West European art, it functions in five main ways: the Old Testament Noah Ark, the antique boat of Charon, the Norse Naglfar, the Medieval Ship of Fools and the Flying Dutchman of Romanticism. All these “roles” can be concerned as independent discourses forming the interdiscourse of the present day ship. What seems to be essential is the study of its intradiscourse, i.e. the diversity of all the elements included in the structure of later discourse. Within the framework of this article only the analysis of Noah Ark’s intradiscoure is represented. The components forming the “thread of discourse” (M. Pechet) comprise various national variants of the Deluge theory: the Sumerian and Akkadian myth, the Babylonian legend, the Old Testament parable, the ancient Greek myth and the Sanskrit fable, the first being assumed as the preconstruct of this discourse.