Antonina Anistratenko, Antoniy Moysey. Functioning of basic mythologemes in national rituals and their transformation in the modern Ukrainian drama. While historical knowledge moving forward and raised in the community to unprecedented level of accuracy, it is steeped in taboos, politically motivated forced forgetting and myth-making. The last bastion of preserving the national memory is family memorial story, as an ancient historical single myths, which provides traditional rites and reproducible set of ritual associated with certain events of those stories and historical development of the people. The article deals with identify ways and sence of transforming the system of archetypes and mythologems in mystical rituals and Ukrainian drama. The concept of historical and conceptual field of modern Ukrainian drama in the context of preservation and reproduction of historical memory is another one object of our research. Genre scheme “vertep-dramas” formed the basis for the classical Ukrainian drama. The express of European modernism changed its formal dimension in Ukraine, but the traditional myths and concepts was remained and removed in modern postmodern period to the new quality: conceptual and symbolic structures review an important artistic role. Genre components and the semantic level playing the role of national mental developers and identity elements for bringing the text and the reader into the autoreception level. Conceptual-semantic unit has function here as a genre element (for neomodern arts and postmodern works) and it includes historical and cultural codes for open there own receptive components. Key words: mythology, archetype, concept, traditional rite, autoreception, literary marker, functional space of the mythologems Анистратенко Антонина, Мойсей Антоний. Функционирова- ние базовых мифологем в народных обрядах и их трансформация в современной украинской драме. В статье рассматриваются мифологемы (результаты расщепленного мифа в сознании индивида, который находится в дискурсе определенной национальной памяти), представляющие национальную картину мира, а также основные концепты мировоззрения (результат трансформации архетипных структур). Их функционирование сравнивается в фактическом контексте: народных обрядов. Ключевые слова: мифологема, архетип, концепт, народный обряд, авторецепция, литературный концепт-маркер, функциональное пространство мифологемы, жанровая схема драматического произведения.