SEMANTIC RECONSTRUCTION OF STRUCTURE FORMING PRIMARY ELEMENTS OF ICONOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE
The article presents the author 's hypothesis on three fundamental units of iconographic discourse (mandorla, mountain-ladder, light) that have a structure forming function in the composition of Old Russian icons. Reconstruction of the original sacred sense of the specified primary elements is performed, in the first place, through the text of the Holy Scripture, and appeal to the images and the names of the Glagolitic script letters, as well as through the analysis of image and subject world of the Orthodox church.