Locative sacral center in Alexander Bashlachev’s mythopoetic picture of the world

The article is about the three main sacred categories of Alexander Bashlachev’s mythopoetic system: the time of the end of the world, the place of the Last Judgment, the personality of the messiah. Such a concept was developed in the poet’s mature work (end of 1985 – first half of 1986). According to Bashlachev’s views, the world is on the eve of a great eschatological event, named differently in each of the songs( time of the Gathering of Stones, the Last Judgment, the Day of Judgment, etc.). At that moment, the messiah who is hidden behind the poetic formula, the Name of Names, will appear to the world. Studying Bashlachev’s works have not yet answered the question: where in the mythopoetic picture of the world will this “Event of Events” take place. That is, the available research has not yet revealed the sacred center of Bashlachev’s mythopoetic system. The author of the article proves that it was Siberia that became such a center. It is connected with the biographical collisions of the poet: a trip to Novosibirsk at the end of 1985, during which a creative breakthrough occurred. The poet associated that new qualitative level with the special atmosphere of Siberia and the people who live here. According to Bashlachev, the new messiah will come from among the Siberians, because they are people involved in sacred power. Accordingly, in the eschatological texts of Bashlachev, dedicated to the birth of the messiah (the Name of Names), the Siberian chronotope is explicated.

Alexander Bashlachev, myth, mythopoetics, eschatology, chronotope, artistic space, artistic time, Name of Names

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