Упостась means matter, being. This word I have chosen as I read the presence of the human in the Bulgarian culture as a complex creature which consists three layers that form the world around us – people, animals and plants. All these figures on their own have a special meaning in the culture not only visually but on a spiritual level. The human is like a base on which everything else lays. The human body dressed in the animal furs/leathers to scare the bad spirits, rituals about the beginning of the spring strongly related with the earth, etc. all these examples helped me examine and approach the human being as only a soul dressed up in the world around it, as a упостась