THE TRADITIONAL LANDSCAPE OF VELEBIT PODGORJE

Sa？etak Presented in the paper is the iconographic-symbolic structure of the ideogram of the arbor mundi (cosmic tree, tree of the world/life) on the mirili？te (resting place) of Kosa Renjova？ka halfway between the settlement of Reljinovac/Renjovac and the Ljuboti？ cemetery. The ideograms are analysed stylistically-morphologically on the mirilo monuments and in the funeral art on one headstone of a drystone wall type mirilo grave at the Ljuboti？ cemetery, and on two grave slabs at the Lun cemetery on the island of Pag. They are analogously compared with the motifs of the same or similar iconographic characteristics from the wider geographic area. The question of the image of the tree of the world in Podgorje primarily sets the question of the reconstruction of its traditional religious-symbolic meaning, both on the mirilo monuments and on the funeral monuments. Being that the aim of this paper is to show the ideogram of the tree of the world as one of the visual motifs which to date has not been documented in literature about the visual representations of the southern Velebit mirili？te (resting places), it is not possible to give a final answer to the question of understanding its image until the beginning of the 20th century