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[Alexandr Korol]

that the Earth, the Universe originated from the body of an animal. As such an animal there could appear a mammoth, a bull, a horse, a turtle, a whale, a bird, fire, and others. The beast could be regarded as a demiurge, that is, the creator of the world. Each of these animals was a totem, the personification of a particular clan. Widely spread in ancient myths also was the image of the Universe as a world tree. In it there appeared three of its own parts, each of which corresponded to an independent world. Along this wondrous tree one could penetrate into other worlds of the Universe.”

You see? This is a journey through both time and space.

It is also written that “later the image of the Universe as a human being develops, the myth appears of the gigantic cosmic primordial man, from whose body the visible world was created. Thus, in Hindu mythology there is the tale of Purusha, the primordial man, from whose parts arose the world, people, the castes of men, and more. In Scandinavian mythology the gods killed the giant Ymir and created from his body the world.”

And here also separately about time and space — which is actually very important, because this is precisely the essence, the foundation of the ninth volume.

“Time in mythology is divided into sacred primordial, that is, mythical time, and profane — empirical. Mythological time is conceived as the source of archetypal prototypes, exemplars. It is the period when the dark tribal forefathers, demiurges, cultic heroes created the present state of the world: the relief, the heavenly luminaries, animals, plants, people, as well as the paradigms and sanctions of economic, religious, ritual, social behavior, and more. The conception of mythological time is characteristic above all for archaic mythology. In mythological consciousness these forces are activated by rituals staging the events of the mythological epoch and often including the recitation of myths of creation, especially during calendrical festivals. This continues to sustain the established order in nature and in society. The events of the epoch of first creation are cyclically reproduced in rituals, especially calendrical ones.