Berze Nagy János - Égigérő fa - Magyar mitológiai tanulmányok

The sky-high tree is called the "soul tree" its origin is rooted in the underworld, the unconscious, the ancient past, its trunk is the personal life path, and its crown evokes the level of consciousness. Its branches mostly go through the seven layers of the sky. The task of the traveler, i.e. the hero, is to climb the three, seven or nine levels, or to get to the top of the tree. The different layers of the tree reaching to the sky are possible for the development of personality and consciousness. they also refer to its levels. In the eternal cycle of existence, the tree is the link between the material and spiritual planes, the earth and the sky, as well as the horizontal and vertical dimensions. you can discover and get to know your own spiritual depths.Dr. János Berze Nagy is one of the founders and the first prominent representative of Hungarian folktale research. He was the first in the history of Hungarian ethnography to connect the collection of folk poetry with the research of the folk language, and was the first to recognize that folk songs and folk ballads should be recorded together with their melody. He prepared the first academic catalog of Hungarian fairy tales, the Hungarian fairy tale dictionary and the types I-II of Hungarian folk tales. volume. But he also made important findings in the field of folklore, belief and dialect research.

National Heritage Publishing House
Social science
336 pages
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 9786155797149
Author: János Nagy Berze