ABSTRACT
The polymorphic phenomenon of Ajvatovica, allegedly the most attended Muslim gathering in Europe, provides a stage for the selection and propagation of the familiar narrative of the pilgrimage with the perspicuous tendency to demythologize it, although not without introducing new mythic elements meant to elevate contemporary developments to the level of a salvation-historical development. This chapter attempts to conceptualize the (re)creation of the religio-cultural event in its historical and cultural context and to point to its iconographic interpretation with a view to its symbolic and religious value as well as its significance for the cultural identity and political imagination of the Bosnian people.
