History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back ETHNO-CULTURAL IDENTITY OF THE MYTHOLOGICAL IMAGE A.V. Gucheva, M.A. Hokonov Topicality of the study of myth in ritual practices of the Circassians (Adyghe) is conceptually new in their perception in modern culture. Mythology and the personification of images of deities and patrons of the Pantheon covers the semantic and translational levels, in cooperation with the representation and structural organization of ritual activities. In the article the questions of reconstruction and reinterpretation of the ancient mythological system of the Circassians (Adyghe), followed by the identification of similar rituals, the issues of borrowing of the plot, and revealed the symbols and images in interaction and mutual influence of archetypal mythological structure, and the articulation of musical space ritual with instrumental tune or song in praise of the deity. Discusses the Circassian pipe – camel that sounded musical space of the rite. She was endowed with a sacred force of divine origin and paving the border between human and ancestor deities. A reinterpretation of the archetypal mythological structure, its plots, characters and images, leading currently to a new understanding of the world of mythological systems, thus giving them new life, as a phenomenon of contemporary culture from the perspective of the representation of the archaic mythological images and symbols. A common feature of the analyzed archaic layers of culture is a unified system of translation and understanding of the sacred ritual and sound design of the space, to achieve the values necessary for the existence and development of man in the world order. The aim of the study is to identify elements of archaic myth in the ritual-a ritual practice, on the example of the representative rites and archaic samples of the musical tradition of the Circassians (Adyghe) for scoring space ritual. Keywords: Circassians (Adyghe) myth, deity, rites de passage, semantics, ritual act, a ritual dance, Udzh. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.09.2019.851 Contacts: - Pp. 53-60.