Древни космогонични митове и сказания (Изток–Запад)
Ancient Cosmogonic Myths Legends (East and West)

Author(s): Desislava Damyanova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: ancient myths; cosmogony; archaic cultures; anthropomorphism; hylozoism
Summary/Abstract: When we turn to the spiritual culture of past epochs, we witness many original ideas and peculiar schemes – the result of the creative imagination of people who lived thousands of years ago. Some of them are purely local in nature and do not occur beyond the boundaries of a particular culture, others are a variation of views of the universe known worldwide; in any case, through the analysis of ancient myths, we can highlight the coded suggestions and symbolic models (archetypes) that refer to universal cosmological systems.

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