World creation. The goddess-mother. The Blue Bull and the God of the Earth. Immortal lover

"Mythological universals are not a game of mind for lovers of magic, but the key to our consciousness, the key to the whole culture of mankind. These are images embodied in art for centuries, even atheistic, ”Alexander Barkov, a well -known researcher of mythology emphasizes in his lectures. The book included the most popular of her lectures - about the mother goddess, where the myth associated with this eternal way is reconstructed, lectures on the evolution of the image of the Body of the underworld from the ancient blue bull to ancient philosophy, the evolution of the image of the Muse from archaic to the present and the transformation of various myths of creation . Living language, witty "and ironic presentation of the material creates a feeling of direct participation of the reader in an exciting lecture