The birth of a starry sky. Cosmos mythology. Berezkin Yu.E.

What is the similarity of ideas about the Milky Way in the Caucasus and the Balkans? How did many Europeans recalled the Old Testament story of Cain and Abel, looking at the moon spots? Why did some inhabitants of Asia and North America see hunters in a large bear who drive a moose or a bear and carry a pot to cook meat, and others - seven brothers? In these and in many other issues, the author of this book is trying to figure out. For this, he analyzes the mythological representations of the peoples of Eurasia, Africa and both Americas. They are known about thousands of narratives recorded by ethnographers and linguists or extracted from ancient texts. The similarities and differences in ideas about the moon and stars allow us to reconstruct historical processes - from relatively recent to the 10-15 thousand years ago and more.

that is, this book is not a guide to the night sky, but a story about that What happened in the distant past. Such a study would be impossible without modern computer technology: they made affordable information that the author could hardly collect half a century ago. But even more important - the successes of archeology and genetics. In recent years, our knowledge of the past of mankind has immeasurably expanded; It is thanks to this that we begin to understand those messages of the ancestors that are encrypted in myths.