The aim of the author is an attempt to show metaphoric ways of presenting
God and the relations God-man in Polish proverbs. The analysis of the research
material shows that figurative images of God are strictly related to everyday
life and daily occupations of an average user of Polish, especially trade, craft,
construction, medicine, finances, education. It is not odd that these branches
of life, generally acknowledged and respected, have become a basis for depictions
of God as the highest value. It is also vital that metaphorical images
of God and His relations to man are identical with the Christian idea of the
Creator. What is more, almost all the metaphors of God present in the research
material have their equivalents in the quotations from the Scriptures. Thus, we
observe both the influence of the Bible on common images of the nature of
God and the impact of the original (dating back to the times when the Bible
was coming into existence), ‘naïve’ and commmon-sense vision of the world
on biblical images of the Creator.Dr hab. BEATA KURYŁOWICZ – adiunkt w Instytucie Filologii Polskiej
Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. Autorka książek "Język polski w szesnastowiecznych
księgach miejskich Knyszyna" (Białystok 2004) i "Semantyka nazw
kwiatów w poezji Młodej Polski" (Białystok 2012), a także kilkudziesięciu artykułów z zakresu historycznej polszczyzny regionalnej północno-wschodniej, językowego obrazu świata tekstów artystycznych oraz stylistyki
tekstów artystycznych.Uniwersytet w Białymstoku13/2374
