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religious consciousness in the literary text», we have considered the notions of 
intertextuality, precedence, strong and weak texts, knowledge structures, and 
studied verbalization of mythological-religious consciousness in the literary text. 
Mythological and religious texts as a source of precedence are considered to 
be the «core» of the so-called «strong» texts. This means that mythological and 
religious texts, being «prototexts», are axiologically significant for culture. 
Mythological and religious texts have all the characteristics of precedent texts, 
such as: 1) generally notable, i.e. being universally precedent, they are well-known 
to representatives of various cultures; 2) recurrence of usage: mythological-
religious texts, plots, motifs, images are often used in various types of text (literary, 
newspaper, publicistic, etc.), and in everyday communication; 3) reinterpretation: 
these texts are reproduced in various forms of art (painting, sculpture, ballet, opera, 
etc.); 4) axiological value: serve as cultural dominants to regulate the behavioral 
norms of different cultures. 5) symbolic and imaginative characteristics: have 
become symbols due to their ability to be associated with certain images;
6) cognitive value: activate different types of knowledge structures and help 
penetrate into the deep semantics of a text. 

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The results of the analysis of the religious world picture representation in the 
literary texts in the framework of the theories of intertextuality and precedence 
indicate that the MRMLUs serve as an intertext, activating in the reader's mind the 
mythological-religious texts and related to them knowledge structures. 
Distinguished by notability, frequency of usage, reinterpretability, imagery, 
symbolic, cognitive and axiological significance, mythological-religious texts 
contribute to the «core» of «strong» texts. They function in the literary texts as 
intertextual markers expressed with the help of mythological-religious allusions 
that activate a certain precedent situation and its associative links, thus contributing 
to the condenced representation of culturally and conceptually significant 
information. To the peculiarities of textual verbalization of allusions we can refer 
their ability to undergo occasional transformations, express opposite concepts 
simultaneously, and acquire additional contextual meanings. 
The fourth chapter «Basic concepts of the mythological-religious world 
picture» elaborates the criteria of mythological-religious concepts (MRC) 
categorization, identifies the notion of binarity as the main cognitive principle of 
the categorization of the religious world picture and cultural values, reveals 
symbolic essence of the MRMLU.
The results of our study indicate that most of the mythological-religious 
notions acquire the status of cultural concepts distinguished by a high axiological 
value and heterogeneity. This is due to the fact that mythological-religious 
concepts (MRC) are an important constituent of not only the religious world 
picture, but also a conspicuous component of the linguistic and national world 
pictures. In the process of the investigation, we came to the conclusion that it is 
possible to categorize mythological-religious concepts according to the following 
criteria: 1) binarity; 2) universalism/ divercity; 3) axiological value;
4) core/periphery. It should be emphasized that most of mythological-religious 
concepts can be classified according to either one of the above principles or all of 
them. The analysis also proves that the structure of mythological-religious 
concepts can undergo various transformations, losing their denotative meanings 
and acquiring new conceptual meanings, often of an opposite character. 
One of the assumptions developed in this investigation is that binarity is 
considered to be a cognitive principle of categorization. Many scholars 
acknowledge binarity to be a universal means of the world cognition, manifested in 
perception and understanding of space, time, physiology, nature, cultural values, 
etc. In other words, binarity is inherent in all spheres of human activity, including 
social, spiritual, aesthetic, ethical and etc. Binary opposition is a cognitive 
principle of the religious world picture (RWP) categorization, since the binary 
nature of the RWP is observed at all the levels of mythologicall-religiously marked 
linguistic units, such as vocabulary, phraseology, paremiology and text. Binary 
opposition is distinctly manifested at the level of religious concepts that form 
various conceptual spaces interconnected by internal and external opposite links.
The analysis of language material has also proved that many mythologically-
religiously marked linguistic units (MRMLUs) are symbolically significant. 
Functioning as symbols they convey and encode a large amount of explicit and 

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implicit cultural information in the literary text. The analysis of language material 
has proved that many mythologically-religiously marked linguistic units 
(MRMLUs) are symbolically significant. Functioning as symbols they convey and 
encode a large amount of explicit and implicit cultural information in the literary 
text. As a result of the study, we identified the following symbolically significant 
semantic groups of MRMLU: 1) religiously marked zoonyms (dove, stork, ibis);
2) toponyms marked by religious specifics: Mecca, Sodom and Gomorrah, 
Babylon); 3) numerals that have religiously symbolic meaning: 1– the unity of 
God; 7 – a symbol of universe wholeness); 4) colors that have religiously symbolic 
meaning: white; black); 5) anthroponyms: Job, Joseph; 6) phytonyms: lily, rose, 
olive. The general features of mythological- religious symbols are: a) the 
universality of symbolism; b) ambivalence of meanings; c) the ability to represent 
a precedent situation and acquire additional symbolic meanings; d) to transfer a 
large amount of encyclopedic mythological-religious knowledge in a concise form; 
e) to perform symbolic and conceptually significant functions in the text. 
On the basis of the conducted research, it is possible to draw a conclusion 
about the need, significance and perspectives of singling out a new discipline in 
Linguistics: Theolinguistics, which being of an interdisciplinary character is aimed 
to study the reflection of the religious world picture in language.