[1] The traditions of the mythological narration, dealt with the figures of the ancestors-heroes civilizers, and their comic-demoniac doublets.
[2] Bakhtin summarized Meletinsky's analysis in his work on Rabelais: This double aspect of the world and of human life [the existence of a second world and life outside officialdom] existed even at the earliest stages of cultural development, in the folklore of primitive peoples.
[3] In a class-based society, ritual laughter in popular culture creates an anti-clerical world of feasts, playful parody, and carnivals.
[6] In his 1963 work "Origins of Heroic Epic: early forms and archaic monuments", Meletinsky studied and compared elements of four ancient civilizations: Karelian-Finnish (pp.
[9] Meletinskii also makes an interesting analysis of comic doublets (particularly in "Primary sources epic" pp.