Universal History Annotation << Back «IMAGE-MEANING» OF THE SACRED IN THE WORLD MUSICAL MODEL OF THE CIRCASSIANS (ADYGHES) A.V. Gucheva, M.M. Sherieva In the article, the patroness of bees and the goddess of fertility Merissa as urban life of meaning in the mythological picture of the world. The interaction and mutual influence of the architectonics of the image and the architectonics of meaning is to reveal the «image-meaning» in the myth, while the «image of the image» is the image of the goddess, and the meaning of «meaning» is the image of the patron goddess. Merissa – Mother of the Great God Merem is analyzed by us as a complex image of symbolic incarnations, combining empirical, mystical and metaphysical power on the basis of preserved samples of authentic music, as well as lyrics of hymns and songs, which allowed us to form our own «new» image of the goddess with new meta-meanings and meta-images of the process of cocreation of a «new» myth. Keywords: Merissa, Mother of the Great God Merem, amythological void, image, «image-meaning», deity, myth, music, hymn, song, Circassians, Adyghes. DOI: 10.25791/vseist.04.2020.1113 Pp. 16-22.