the search for meaning in Russian folk tales I prompted the conversation with the participants of the training "the Secret language of dreams and fantasies", dedicated to characters and images. Further analysis of the literature has surprised a great variety of interpretations of the same fairy tales. I was interested in the earliest whose meaning baffled. Namely, the "hen" and "Gingerbread man" (if Kolobok can still put the puzzle together, the plot of the fairy tale "hen Ryaba" gives rise to many questions of contradictions). Surprisingly, we all remember them from childhood, but not everyone thought, what meaning they carry.
"hen"
as a child I found this story seemed very long. What was my surprise when a couple of years ago, while reading stories to my little two year old friend, I saw that it takes only a few lines. The rest of the turn great children's books occupied a vivid memory of the picture. Whether I was small, it made sense in her, more than words...
Remember the story? If so, the text by a red font can be omitted.
[color=ff000]once upon a grandfather and a woman. They had Kurochka Ryaba. Demolished the chicken egg, Yes not simple, but gold. Grandfather beat-beat, not defeated. Woman beat-beat, not defeated. The mouse ran, tail waved, the egg fell and broke. Crying grandfather, crying woman, and a hen cackles: "don't cry, grandpa, don't cry, woman! I will carry you the egg is not gold, and simple".[/color]
Why Baba and grandfather beat the Golden egg? Why they couldn't do it, and the little mouse was not difficult to beat this treasure? Why Baba and grandfather so upset?
In Ancient Russia, everyone knew that Golden egg - a symbol of death. It was given to old people when they came to die. Someone managed to break the Golden egg - were living. That's why Baba and grandfather wanted him to break, and when broken they do not - upset. A simple egg, which promised them Ryaba - a symbol of new life. This version of I want to believe, but not too complex meaning for kids?
I like the option about the fact that this story talks about... the birth of a child. The child in the context of the tale relives the trauma of his appearance, which is still fresh. Chicken - a type of motherhood. The egg is a potential life. It turns out that the baby is born in "shell", not even a mouse is too it. But it depends on the hour of birth, and no grandmother with Dedkov anything here I can not do.
"Kolobok"
it is possible that prophetic, who told the first tale, I wanted to transfer knowledge about the phenomenon of the movement of the sun across the sky. The bun is a symbol of the sun. Oven - the beginning, the dawn. Path - the sky. The hare, the wolf, the bear, a symbol of the location of the sun in the sky during the day. Fox (most likely because of its color) - the sunset.
A likely tale talks about the process of growing up with all the difficulties you meet on your way.
Interestingly, at a very early age, a love of children is associated with the absorption because, guess what, breastfeeding. This is a normal stage of development, however in children it is often accompanied by fear that the parents took him to eat.
And in fact in the story is the grandfather with the grandma Bun bake (bake = give birth to) to eat. And the Bun is nothing left to run from them to survive.
the First person he meets on his journey - the Hare. It's his first obstacle. "Cowardy custard" is a symbol of fear (at this stage of his life man is a victim of circumstances - he is afraid of everything).
the Second obstacle is the Wolf or "Volcheck-prowling sock" - symbol search (overcoming the fear of man becomes a hunter - trapper, he pursues knowledge and power, avoiding mistakes and finding the right solutions).
the Third obstacle - Bear. Bear - a symbol of strength (as a result of being and knowledge of man becomes a warrior wielding the power; the warrior has the power, but still not "know what he was doing"; "power is - do not mind" - so said about those who are "stuck" and could not overcome this obstacle).
the Fourth obstacle - the Fox as a symbol of cunning, lies, deceit and self-deception.
One of the participants of the training, which began with my reasoning, told about a curious variant of this tale: as a child he was told that the tale was over the fact that Fox broke the teeth of a Bun. It turns out that over time can become stale, resistant to manipulation and then to eat you.
Almost all of the first tale - a terrible and pessimistic, but they gave us robinow vaccinated and prepared for the imperfection of the world.
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