»Dekle moje, prinesi mi vode.« Voda v slovenski ljudski pesemski tradiciji

The article focuses on the content-related and formal roles of water in folk lyric songs and ballads, its meanings and metaphorical dimensions in various song microcosms and macrocosms. Our aim is to establish, on the basis of textual analysis, folkloristic methods and with use of some ethnological contextual aspects and with help of different theoretical discourses, the most frequent water dimensions, from mythological, transcendent to vital and mortal. Author finds out that water in songs, regarding to farthermost richness and diversity of water sources in Slovenia, is not an object of desire and need and not an existential problem, but it is mostly connected with deep emotional and spiritual dimensions of songs subjects, as well as dependent from their experiences toward individual water forms. *** Razprava se osredinja na formalne vloge in podobe vode v slovenskih ljudskih pesmih kot tudi na pomene in metaforične ter simbolične konotacije vode v različnih vodnih mikro- in makrokozmosih. Na podlagi analiz besedil in folklorističnih metod, s pritegnitvijo nekaterih etnoloških kontekstualnih vidikov ter s pomočjo različnih teoretskih diskurzov avtorica razgrinja najpogostejše razsežnosti vode – od mitoloških, trancendentnih do življenjskih in smrtnih. Ugotavlja, da voda v pesmi, glede na izjemno vodnatost in pestrost vodnih virov na Slovenskem, ni objekt želje ali potrebe in ni eksistencialni problem, temveč je predvsem povezana z globokimi emotivnimi in duhovnimi razsežnostmi subjektov pesmi, hkrati pa je odvisna od njihovih izkustvenih odnosov do posamičnih vodnih oblik