The destiny of person in a religious studies and popular folkvision

Abstract

The phenomenon of fate in its diverse vision is analyzed. Fate often appears as a universal of the subject-object series of culture, which fixes the idea of the eventful fullness of the time of concrete existence, which is characterized by theologically articulated integrity and completeness. Fate sometimes also appears as a conceptual mythologeme, expressing the idea of determination as unfreedom. In irrational philosophical systems and in everyday religious consciousness, fate is the predetermination and incomprehensible conditioning of events and actions, little dependent on a person’s personal efforts. In the popular folk vision, expressed in particular in songs, fate is presented as some kind of dream creature that walks alongside every person (or community) regardless of them and that everyone seeks and calls into their life. Along with the theorized various philosophical and confessional-Christian visions of the nature of fate, the author offers an understanding of the phenomenon as grasped in the poetry of Taras Shevchenko and in Ukrainian folk songs.