The article deals with the problem of the active and/or passive role of the profession in the creation of an intangible heritage in the case of the mythical tradition in the Mythical Park in Rodik and the traditions of the a. k. a. of the Old Believers (slovenian staroveci). In the specific case of Myth Park, the author points out some problems in the interpretation or presentation of the intangible heritage and in the traditions of the Old Believers, which are due to the absence of the profession, the problems of popular interpretations. The author points out two completely different processes of evaluating the heritage, "from bottom to top" and vice versa, and problematizes the role of ethnologists and cultural anthropologists as observers or inventors of the heritage.
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The essay presents a model of the mythical landscape, i.e. special forms of instrumentalization of the landscape that took place when people made it a tool because they believed it could influence the functioning of the forces of nature: the weather, the movement of the celestial bodies, the fertility of the earth, the fertility of plants, animals, people, health. The mythical story, which reflects people's knowledge of how the world works, serves as the starting point for the program. The author draws on a comprehensive analysis of the mythical landscape as a product of human understanding of the world, a concise description of the components of the mythical landscape and the tradition of the Old Believers (Staroverci) of Posočje, with which he tries to explain the events in the wider area of Bled. The early medieval cemeteries and their location in the mythical landscape are the best archeologically researched in the area of Bled. A detailed analysis of the villages of Bled has shown that most of the villages that were built in the early Middle Ages period still exist today and each early medieval village had its own cemetery. The edition of the cemetery of the village of Spodnje Bodešče is worth mentioning. A detailed, multidisciplinary settlement analysis revealed that the village Spodnje Bodešče was founded in the 10th century on the site of an older village that had collapsed earlier. It was the desire to find the cemetery of this older village that would provide an insight into the oldest Slavic graves in Bled and confirm the account of the settlement events. All this with the fundamental aim of confirming the existence of the mythical landscape, its rules and the adequacy of our understanding.