REPRESENTATION THROUGH MYTHS OF THE ANTHROPOMORPHIC CODE

The paper discusses the relationship between language and culture, modeling the geographical landscape through one of the cultural codes in cognitive linguistics - anthropomorphic code. When we talk about the geographical landscape, we cannot leave toponyms out. The toponyms reflect the worldview of a nation. Anthropomorphic culture code is transmitted through anthropomorphic metaphors, legends, myths, and phraseological units. In this paper we consider legends and myths. Myths and legends about the environment and nature reflect the worldview of every nation. One way of forming knowledge is to know oneself, which means by knowing oneself, one knows the other, by knowing the inner world, one knows the outer world. Man projects his knowledge of himself into the outer world and thus reflects his worldview about the external world. A developed worldview is expressed through language. Legends and myths describe the worldview of the nation. The types of myths represented by anthropomorphic codes are analyzed and their role in the formation of the geographical landscape is discussed. 

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