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Abstract
In world folklore studies, the genesis of arboreal images, their artistic gradual improvement, their poetic interpretations and aesthetic functions in folk works have been studied in terms of the concepts of historical and ritual-mythological school theory. In the folklore of all nations, the image of a tree is poetically interpreted according to people's national worldview, living area, and culture. Therefore, it is necessary and urgent to reveal the historical and gradual interpretation features of the image of the tree in every folk art, to illuminate its mythological and social-life foundations, to determine its poetic, semantic-structural features. As a result, the characteristic signs of the development of the poetics of traditional images in folklore become clear.This article deals with the paradigmatic relationship of the tree as well as water and fire in folklore.