THE IMAGE OF FUR-BEARING ANIMALS IN UDMURT LINGUOCULTURE: ӞИЧЫ ‘FOX’

The work presents an actual research within the framework of an anthropological approach. The purpose of the article is to examine a fragment of the zoomorphic code represented by the image and symbolism of the fox in the Udmurt culture. The material includes Udmurt examples related to the image of a fox, used in various verbal texts. During the work on the article, linguistic, cultural, semantic, etymological and conceptual methods were used. It was revealed that the image of the fox in Udmurt linguoculture has both mythological representations associated with marriage, female symbols and general cultural representations associated with hunting. The fox has fiery semantics everywhere, as do many contacting peoples. Her characteristics and the metaphorical in comparisons and parodies indicate cunning, resourcefulness, etc. Folk knowledge was encoded in proverbs, sayings, riddles, omens, songs and sacred texts. They have both specific national features and general cultural ones.