Myths, dreams, mystery. Eliade M.

The book of the famous anthropologist and religious scholar M. Eliade “Myths, Dreams, Mysteries” contains a large mythological material regarding both primitive communal peoples and ancient civilizations. The cosmogonic idea of ​​the separation of heaven and earth - spiritual and material is considered. Mystical sensations, magical warmth, the mystery of the flight, the work of dreams, the path of a warrior, creation and sacrifice, cannibalism, suffering and symbolism of death in initiations, male and female secret societies - these and many other topics are affected by the author in the process of revealing the interaction of heaven and earthly in traditional societies.

for culturologists, anthropologists, religious scholars, historians, as well as students of other humanitarian specialties.