Svete žene u usmenom pesništvu Vojne Krajine

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the hagiological poetics of the oral poetry of Military Frontier, establishing the panorama and motive complexes of holy women. On the one hand, they are constituted through the Christian amalgamation of matriarchal remnants, so one view of the constitution of holy women in the poetry of Military Frontier is archetypal, while the other implies the opposite direction of observation – eschatotypal. It is precisely through the eschatotype – the defined and assigned identity that a person will only fulfill, in the Christian experience, to “become perfect”, to finally identify with Christ – that Christian holiness is achieved. Although the representations of holy women are based on archetypal representations and images of former matriarchal and patriarchal female deities, they acquire Christlikeness in the eschatotypic perspective as the last stage of human growth, as holiness can be defined.