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[Alexandr Korol]

archaic societies, modern mythology of developed societies, historical data, symbolism, works of art and other, in which there are archetypal elements, including archetypes. The essence is that this is mentioned very widely — in culture, in art, in all depictions and so on. Each in his own way attempted to explain this middle of the world.

Myth does not distinguish between an object and the thought of it, a thing and the word, fiction, fantasy and reality, things and properties, spatial and temporal relations, truth and poetry. The accidental, chaotic, singular, unrepeatable is not opposed to the necessary, lawful, recurring. The highlighting of the features of an object is determined not by its objective characteristics, but by the subjective position of the keeper of the myth, the shaman, the sorcerer, and so on. The mode of generalization is built on the basis of imitation of what is seen. The chief means of generalization is inference by analogy, taking into account not so much the objective parameters of the object as the subjective peculiarities of the situation and behavior.

In mythology there is incomplete reversibility with logical operation, and as a consequence of this trait — the insensitivity of myth to logical contradictions. Myth constitutes a special explanation of the world with peculiar interpretations of causality, space, and time. To explain some event from the point of view of myth means to tell about how it happened, how it was made, created in the past. Mythology distinguishes causal connections, but fixes them as connections between the aims and the results of human activity, therefore causality itself is presented only as a volitional act from some creation. The entire system of mythological explanation is built upon the conviction in the reality of myth. Hence follows the problem-free character of mythological explanation. Myth, as a worldview, has no need of verification or substantiation.

The world, in this case — man and the environment in their interaction, moreover human structures and schemes are often extrapolated onto the environment. The model of the world often includes the identity or dependence between macrocosm and microcosm, nature and man. There is a great number of examples of anthropomorphic modeling of cosmic space and the earth, as well as of