Interpretation of Fate and Guilt in Armenian and European Epics
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https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v22i2.805Keywords:
“Sasna Tsrer”, epic fate, sin, state, sin and freedom, personalized fateAbstract
The subject of the current article is that, for the first time in the study, the issues of the relationship between fate and sin in European-Armenian heroic epics were analyzed using historical, comparative methods.
Perceptions of both fate and guilt are quite different in French, German, Spanish and Armenian epics. This approach examines the works of epic heritage, not so much external plot similarities and differences but internal worldview perceptions.
The purpose of the study is to reveal the internal commonalities and peculiarities between European and Armenian epics.
As a result, the authors put forward the thesis that, in European epics, fate is alienated from a person and is personified in “Sasna Tsrer”, it originates from the individual and returns to him and is not personified. As a result, in European epics, guilt is seen as a consequence of an act; in “Sasna Tsrer”, guilt is a state that turns into a national destiny.
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