The concept “PATH” in the lyrico-epic writings of Sargylana Goldereva-Sargy Kuo

The article examines the concept of the “PATH” in the lyrico-epic works of Sargylana Golderova– Sargy Kuo as a significant category of the individual author's worldview and artistic interpretation of the Sakha people's ethnocultural memory. The relevance of the study is determined by the sustained interest of contemporary literary criticism in the conceptual analysis of literary texts, as well as by the need for a more precise description of Sargy Kuo's poetics, in which the motif of movement is connected with the native land, fate, spiritual choice, and the search for the highest value. The aim of the article is to identify the structure of the “PATH” concept and the ways it is represented in the poems “Ergilli”, “Moghol urahaҕa ayan”, and “Kem ayannyta”. The material for analysis comprises lexical, figurative, and narrative-compositional forms of embodying the path, including motifs of return, wandering, overcoming, purification, and movement towards Eternal Love. The methodological framework is based on conceptual, lexico-semantic, comparative, and interpretive approaches, which make it possible to correlate the dictionary meanings of the lexemes ayan and suol with their artistic function in the poetic text and the system of recurring images. Special attention is paid to the transition from the physical road to the heroine's inner journey, where spatial movement acquires value-laden and fateful significance. As a result, it is established that the “PATH” concept in Sargy Kuo's works is formed as a multilayered unity of spatial, temporal, and spiritual-axiological dimensions. In the poem “Ergilli”, it is revealed through a return to the Amga River and ancestral origins; in “Moghol urahaҕa ayan” – through a life trial, the search for protection and inner support; in “Kem ayannyta” – through a philosophical experience of time and liberation.

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