Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Makarenko.vadim@yandex.ru
Words form lexical-semantic groups that combine words by semantic meaning, but at a higher level of abstraction, words can be combined into lexical-etymological groups. This allows us to use the vocabulary of different languages, including those that are geographically very remote from each other, to restore the meaning of basic concepts. The article attempts to show the etymological connections between lexical units that represented the understanding of the life cycle, preserved in the Greek-Egyptian and Eastern hieroglyphic language cultures. By identifying etymological connections, it is possible to identify, restore, and better understand the mythologem of the life cycle. The analysis made it possible to conclude that the peoples of Eurasia have similar archaic ideas about the life cycle, which are transmitted by words similar in phonetic form that go back to common etymological ideas. Ideas about the life cycle are represented by the development (modification) of the same semiotic system, which was common among the peoples-carriers of this archaic culture. This suggests that the ancestors of these peoples at the time their basic ideas about the world were formed belonged to the same culture and developed in the same local-historical region. The main method of analysis is the construction of semiotic paradigm equations, which enables us to identify the meaning contained in words.
languages; etymology; lexico-etymological group; life cycle model; triads of gods of the Middle Eastern and Indian historical regions; history
Download textFor citing: Makarenko V.V. (2021). Semiotics of the life cycle. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 1(45): Cultural space: from narrative to semiotics, pp. 56-77. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2021.01.03