Archaic myths of the East and West. 4th edition, stereotypical. Dyakonov I.M.

This study covers the myths that have developed in Europe and Asia in the late era of primitiveness, until the creation of class society and urban cultures, but continued to exist more or less invariably in the era of ancient and pre -production civilizations. The author considers the main qualitative characteristic of mythological thinking (metonymy, metaphor, etc.), and the myth itself (or its structural core-mythologist) is a statement that reflects socio-psychological motives for the emotional understanding of the phenomena of the outside world or the inner world of a person. < /p>

The book is addressed to historians, culturalists, ethnographers, sociologists, psychologists, linguists, as well as a wide range of readers who are interested in the problems raised in it.