{"id":552,"date":"2020-01-29T03:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T03:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/?p=552"},"modified":"2020-01-29T04:21:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T04:21:22","slug":"divine-intervention-through-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/nkhumalo\/divine-intervention-through-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Intervention Through Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lay of Igor\u2019s Campaign, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nature serves as a representation of God\u2019s divine intervention. Though the theme is prevalent throughout the text, to me, the most notable example is in Part XI as Igor\u2019s wife, Yaroslavna, laments at the defeat of her husband\u2019s army.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Specifically, the wind and the sun, both common symbols of God the Holy Spirit, work to show that the defeat was dealt not at the hands of the Kumans, but God enacting divine retribution through the Kumans. Wind serves as a sign of God\u2019s power. \u201cO wind, why do you, my lord wind, blow so fiercely?\/ Why do you bring on your light wings\/ Kuman arrows against the warriors of my beloved?\u201d (186). \u2018My lord wind\u2019 shows that, in this story, God and the wind are synonymous. Personification of the wind with \u2018you\u2019 and \u2018your\u2019\u00a0 shows that Yaroslavna believes that the wind is not a neutral entity but an angry God. This theme continues as Yaroslavna describes the sun. \u201cO my bright and thrice bright sun!\/ Why did you spread, my lord, your burning rays upon the warriors of my beloved?\u201d (187). \u2018My bright and thrice bright sun\u2019 depicts the duality of God\u2019s power. He can be \u2018bright\u2019 and simply shine on his people and \u2018thrice bright\u2019 to burn them when they do not obey. In this case, it is the feuding princes that warrant such a punishing response from God dooming their people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The author\u2019s choice to depict God in nature reveals the role that the Kievan Rus believed God played in their existence. The wind and the Sun are both ever-present figures in their lives\u00a0 just as God is. Additionally, both examples can have a benevolent and malicious side: a cooling wind or warming Sun or destructive wind and blinding Sun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Lay of Igor\u2019s Campaign, nature serves as a representation of God\u2019s divine intervention. Though the theme is prevalent throughout the text, to me, the most notable example is in Part XI as Igor\u2019s wife, Yaroslavna, laments at the defeat of her husband\u2019s army.\u00a0Specifically, the wind and the sun, both common symbols of God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unit-2-the-tartar-yoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}