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Mythological intertwining of the Epona to Martin and Samhaine to the St Martin’s day

The paper considers the culturo-anthropological diversity of the St Martin myth, whose living folklore customs permit one to speak of the St Martin myth as a significant component in Christian mythology, based on the mnemonic traces of Celtic myths and those of Antiquity along with sumptuous hagiographic acquirements. We shall review particularly the Epona determinants of the St Martin myth and their reflection in the Croatian Martinje customs. In our search for the source of what is, at first glance, a limited sequence of events such as baptism of the wine must, mythological links also emerged, which, with all three of their mythological functions – narrative, initiational and etiological – as well as the elaborated ritual, support the mythological awareness in which there are echoes of the speech of civilisation inscribed in time and space.

mythology, Epona, Martin

Rad je preveden na ukrajinski jezik. Izvorni rad je na hrvatskom (Mitološki prepleti. Od Epone do Martina, od Samaina do Martinja) i nalazi se u knjizi Mitski zbornik (Suzana Marjanić i Ines Prica, ur. ; Zagreb : Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku : Hrvatsko etnološko društvo : Scarabeus naklada, 2010. ; Biblioteka Nova etnografija ; ISBN 9789537387181).