Meaning-generating mechanisms and the semiosphere: Towards the semiotics of modern apocrypha

Both ancient and modern apocrypha have already been widely discussed in various fields of academic research, for example religious, biblical or literary studies. Although such analyses say much about the historical religious background apocryphal writings enable us to discover depth symbolic resources used texts, they do not fully reveal cultural impact canon. That is why a broader analysis both canon should be based on different methods as those that are offered by semiotics. From standpoint Lotmanian semiotics may viewed examples working culture. They can regarded e.g. creative translation canon, tools autocommunication, memory devices, meaning-generating mechanisms which dynamize semiosphere. Semiotic underlines only set sacred but also kind “cultural code”. The paradigmatic text (in Aleida Assmann’s sense) powerful mechanism huge number texts intertextually relate one another. In relations hypertexts point out (often archaic) nucleus culture (thus illustrate statics semiosphere), at same time describing and/or provoking some changes (due correspond with dynamic nature semiosphere).