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that he is this mythological hero. And further: “The biographical aspect of the heroic myth is comparable to the cosmic aspect of the cosmogonic myth. In the heroic myth, the ordering of chaos is linked to the formation of the hero’s personality, who will later support the cosmic order with his own strength. A reflection of initiation is the hero’s necessary departure or exile from his society and his wanderings in other worlds, where he acquires spirit-helpers and defeats demonic spirit-opponents, sometimes experiencing temporary death (being swallowed and spat out by a monster; death and resurrection – symbols of initiation). The initiator of the trials, which sometimes take the form of completing a ‘difficult task,’ may be the hero’s father, uncle, future father-in-law, tribal leader, celestial deity – such as the sun god – and others. The hero’s exile is sometimes motivated by his transgressions, breaking of taboos...”, or other issues. See how interesting this is? Again, the main hero undergoes trials, has spirit-helpers, and must even experience temporary death, dying and resurrecting. And this is precisely one of the key themes I now need to emphasize – it is the continuation of my path in the fifth volume. I started with death, explaining what it is, and now I must go even deeper and describe what resurrection is.

Next. “Eschatological myths – myths about the ‘final’ things, about the end of the world. They arise relatively late and are based on models of calendar myths, myths about the change of eras, and cosmogonic myths. In contrast to cosmogonic myths, eschatological myths do not describe the creation of the world and its elements but their destruction – the submersion of land in a great flood, the chaotization of the cosmos, and so on. Myths about catastrophes accompanying the change of eras (the destruction of giants or the older generation of gods who lived before the appearance of humans, periodic disasters and world renewal) are difficult to separate from myths about the final destruction of the world. Eschatological catastrophes are often preceded by violations of law and morality, conflicts, and human crimes requiring divine retribution. The world perishes in fire, flood, cosmic battles with demonic forces, famine, heat, cold, and so on.” This caught my attention because these processes seem like two parallel multiverses, two parallel worlds, as if you take the overlapping of these worlds, these spheres stacking on top of each other. As I currently understand it, mythological time is when we are in such a period where our past life exists, and now there’s a fork