Semiotic approach to folk riddle

Abstract

If regarded as part of the world, man can be placed within the total context in the following way: the human body is the microcosmos, his everyday environment is the mesocosmos, and the astral phenomena are the macrocosmos. Man's understanding of the world takes place in the interdependence and interpenetration of these levels. If one wants to discover the traditional (archaic) view of the world, one can answer the question more easily if he considers the riddles from those times. It is precisely through the analysis of the riddles that it becomes evident that the understanding of the world was based on mutual relation and interpenetration of the microcosmos and the mesocosmos.