Philosophical meanings of the image of a home in folk culture

The article highlights the philosophical meanings of the home as a phenomenon of linguistic culture, revealing the ancient layers of the hidden in folk culture, allowing to discover the true nature of familiar things. It is emphasized that the analysis of the meanings of home allows us to better understand the worldview of our ancestors, their ideas about the world and man’s place in it. The ontological foundations of the home, presented in all cultures as the center of the universe, a microcosm, opposed to the chaos of the outside world, are revealed. An analysis of the phenomenality of the meanings of the words “home”, “fire”, “smoke”, “name”, “surname (family)”, “blood” in the Chechen linguistic culture is given. Conclusion dwells upon the fact that the peculiarities of the interpretation of home in the cultures of sedentary and nomadic peoples, the general and special are emphasized, which determines their mental originality; it is substantiated that fire is an important factor in the formation of social communications and the phenomenality of a home. In the Chechen linguistic culture, the symbolism of home is revealed in the origins of human sociality, when fire organizes a special space of unity for everyone who gathers around it. It is stressed out that in modern society there is a change in the semantics of home as a problem of everyday life.