Traditional Ukrainians' funeral rites of different regions in the plane of semiotic codes

The article presents the results of research of the agentive, actional, and realemic codes of semiotics within the traditional Ukrainian funeral rites. Due to their taboo nature and mystical character, these rites most fully preserve archetypal semantics, which reflects the deep sources of the associated sector of the national conceptual worldview. The selection of the Lviv, Sumy, Cherkasy, Kherson, Luhansk regions for analysis was determined by their geographical location and established cultural and ethnographic zoning - Eastern, Central, Western, Southern Ukraine. On the basis of the analysis of the semiotic representation of the elements of funeral rites in different regions of Ukraine, the degree of integrity within the national cultural context and the collective thinking style of Ukrainians from different regions was clarified. The methods of content analysis, comparative analysis, synthesis, and induction served as scientific tools for achieving the defined goal. Based on the analysis of empirical material, it was concluded that the structure of the most archaic funeral rite in all regions of Ukraine is typologically homogeneous. Integrity prevails both in content and form - the verbalization of ritual phenomena, realities and persons, which excludes speculation regarding the "differences" between eastern and western Ukrainians.