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of time amongst minor nations of the North. Small folklore genres - riddles, proverbs and
sayings - were of particular relevance in this study.
Specialised research methods used to analyse the national lexicon revealed that in
the Yukagir and Alyutor cultures the experience of time in frames habitual to modern man
and the technological world (a second, a moment, a minute) is almost entirely absent. The
ethno-semantic difference that exists between the temporal lexemes “period” and “time” is
due to the fact that archetypal representatives of indigenous peoples of northern Russia
were and are bearers of a cyclic consciousness. In the daily life of the indigenous peoples of
the North, the corresponding archetypal orientation of the consciousness does not exclude
the presence of the linear perception of time usual to modern man. Indeed, the flow of life
itself poses the idea of remembering the past, generational change and a deep perception of
the linearity of human life, the pathway from birth to death, and associates progressive
movement with the natural solar and vegetative cycles of the planet.
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Keywords:
indigenous peoples of northern Russia, culture, language, Yukagir,
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AAL
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BKF
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