The Elements of Creation Myths in Halyna Pahutiak’s Novels “Yuliia’s and Herman’s Dreams” and “The Enchanted Musicians”

Abstract

The study examines the specifics of neo-mythological interpretation of creation myths in H. Pahutiak’s novels “Yuliia’s and Herman’s Dreams” and “The Enchanted Musicians”. It determines the peculiarities of resemantizing the mythologems of primordial elements in these literary works. The paper focuses on the mythologems of fire, water, earth and air manifesting ambivalent semantics in both novels. The study stresses on their gender-related nature, vividly reflected in H. Pahutiak’s literary works. It considers the interpretation of Slavic, Germanic and Celtic mythologies in the novels. The results of the research prove that the writer is inclined to use the fragments of creation myths mainly represented by the mythologems of primordial elements to create her literary worlds by the laws of universal harmony and to oppose them to the current reality. They are basic units of her fictional universes arranged by the principals of equality of all living beings.