Indrik is an animal in Russian mythology . It is mentioned in the verse about the Pigeon book , book sources, epics . He gave the name to the fossil indricoterium .
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Creature Name
In numerous versions of the “ Spiritual Verse on the Pigeon Book ”, the name of this beast is in various forms: Indrok, Indra, Kondryk, Beloyandrik, Vyndrik, Unicorn, Unicorn and Unicorn. Name variations can be reduced to two: Indrik and Unicorn. The first name is due to a distortion of either the name of enudra, that is, otter ( other Greek ἐνύδριος , ἔνυδρις ), or endrop ( other Greek ὓδρωψ ), a sea animal known in the Slavic lists of “ Physiologist ”.
Indrik in the ABCs and Pigeon Book
The beast Indriya or Indrik is also mentioned in the ABC books and is described as a beast that looks like a dog that lives in the Nile River and kills a crocodile . Here indrika is confused and identified with ichnevmon .
Replacing the name “Indrik” with the name “Unicorn” is explained, on the one hand, by the sound similarity of both names (Inrog and Indrik), and on the other, by the identical symbolic meaning of both animals. This confusion is already noticed in Physiologists .
In different lists of the verse about the Pigeon Book there are various features in the image of Indrik, but in all he is called "father to all beasts." He walks through the dungeon, overlooks rivers and treasures, or lives on Tabor Mountain; when he turns, all the animals worship him. Or he lives on the Holy Mountain, eats and drinks from the Blue Sea, does not offend anyone. Or he walks the horn through the dungeon, like the sun through the skies.
Indrik the beast is also mentioned in one epic in the usual role of the beast Skimen (“lion cub”, in the Synodal translation of the Bible this word translates the Hebrew word כפיר “kfir” - “lion cub”, “young lion” (Psalm 33:11) (see .: Russian epics of the old and the new record. - Division II. - No. 19).
The literature often claims that the folklore image of Indrik was influenced by the finds of the fossil remains of the mammoth .
Literature
- Mochulsky K.V. Historical and literary analysis of the verse about the Pigeon Book. - Warsaw, 1887.
- Assumption M. G. Where we are not. - St. Petersburg 1999
- Tufanova O. A. The symbol of the “Inoroga” in the “Time Book” of Ivan Timofeev // Ancient Russia. Questions of Medieval Studies . 2008. No. 2 (32). S. 118-128.
Links
- Indrik, fabulous beast // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Indrik-Zver on Russian belt buckles of the XVII - XVIII centuries.