Death, Assumption and the Role of Mary, God's Mother in Religious Tradition and in Slovenian Legendary and Religious Folk Songs

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  • Maruša Brozovič University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Theology, Poljanska cesta 4, 1000 Ljubljana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2019480203

Keywords:

God's Mother Mary, Assumption, relieving souls, death's hour, folk song

Abstract

This paper considers motives of Saint Mary’s death and Assumption and her saving mediation in the last hour of individual in legendary and religious folk songs, as well as apocryphal prayers. With the interdisciplinary comparative method, we point on the source of religious motives from early Christian Apocrypha, included in Slovenian folk songs. Mary is well payed for her role of God’s Mother with Assumption of body and soul. Her new position in heaven is to help the men as always-merciful mother.

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Published

28.06.2019

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Brozovič, M. (2019). Death, Assumption and the Role of Mary, God’s Mother in Religious Tradition and in Slovenian Legendary and Religious Folk Songs. Traditiones, 48(2), 49–67. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2019480203

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Vol. 48 No. 2 (2019): OBREDNE PESMI MED LITURGIJO IN LJUDSKIM IZROČILOM / RITUAL SONGS BETWEEN LITURGY AND FOLK TRADITION

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OBREDNE PESMI MED LITURGIJO IN LJUDSKIM IZROČILOM / RITUAL SONGS BETWEEN LITURGY AND FOLK TRADITION

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