Being and non-being. Secrets of the creation of the world. 50 myths of the peoples of the world

The mysteries of the creation of the world, the origin of humanity, the coexistence of man with the Creator and his violation of the laws of the world order, which inevitably leads to universal cataclysms and punishment of man, are the primordial “canvas” of the mythology of different peoples. But the apotheosis of all mythopoetic creativity over the millennia is the eternal theme – man’s attainment of true immortality, the return of his soul and memory to the origins, to the beginnings, so that the dream of the undying flower of life, of the incinerating and resurrecting power of the fiery Phoenix, never fades. This is the subject of a new book by the famous writer and researcher of folk culture, Maria Chumarna.