IMAGE the WOMAN In the BURYAT HEROIC EPOS "Geser"
Female characters embody the folk idea of beauty and heroism of a person. Their lives and activities symbolize traditional attitude to the world and inter predation of the universe. The author uses the heroic epos Geser to show the typical female character in the Buryat traditional culture. In the epos woman is not only a good keeper of the family hearth, but she is a wise adviser, a teacher transmitting to the next generations the long - cherished spiritual experience of the ancestors. The author also analyses characters of warrior-women, beautiful and dignified at the same time. Analyse of the female characters of the epos Geser gives opportunity to reveal the most valuable principles and archaic features of the Buryat traditional culture.