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[Alexandr Korol]

What comes next in Wikipedia! “Alogical Understanding and Explanation”: “A myth does not differentiate between an object and the thought of it, a thing and a word, fiction, fantasy, and reality, an object and its properties, spatial and temporal relationships, truth and “poetry,” and so on. The random, chaotic, unique, and unrepeatable do not oppose the necessary, lawful, and recurring. The identification of an object’s characteristics is determined not by its objective properties but by the subjective position of the myth’s keeper (shaman, sorcerer, etc.). The method of generalization is based on imitation of what has been seen. The primary means of generalization is reasoning by analogy, which considers not so much the objective parameters of an object as the subjective features of behavioral situations. Mythology exhibits incomplete reversibility of logical operations, and as a result of this characteristic, myths are insensitive to logical contradictions. A myth is a unique explanation of the world with its own interpretations of causality, space, and time. To explain an event from the perspective of a myth means to tell how it happened, how it was made or created in the past. Mythology identifies causal connections but records them as relationships between goals and the results of human activity. Thus, causality itself appears only as a willful act of creation. The entire system of mythological explanation is built on the belief in the reality of the myth. From this follows the “problem-free” nature of mythological explanation: mythology as a worldview does not require verification or justification.”

“In myth, there is no distinction between the real and the supernatural. Therefore, myth completes real social relationships with ideal mythological images, filling the ‘gap’ between man and nature. In this way, a certain harmony is maintained between nature and humanity. The search for answers to the question of how the world came to be lies in the realm of the problem of the origin of society. The answers are reduced to analogies with the change of generations within society. In the images of gods, heroes, labor, and craftsmanship, and other sensually-imagined personifications, different aspects of the community’s life activities were generalized. Cosmogonic myths included narratives about the origins of gods, the succession of their generations, and the struggle between these generations: mythological cosmogony functioned as a tribal theory.” And once again, the change of eras, the change of power, the change of gods – all of this seems to happen as an ideology, as just a worldview. It is intangible,