Russian mythology. A person at a crossroads of worlds

The book is dedicated to the mythological stories about the search and visits of the otherworldly worlds, about a person who finds himself at the crossroads of the roads leading to them, about the search for intimate lands. The author identifies the universals inherent in legends about the innermost lands, reveals the origins and semantics of images and conflicts enclosed in them. These searches give the key to understanding mythological images, mastered not only in folklore, but also in literature and art. For the first time, an extensive comparative analysis of scientific data on a given topics in the field of ethnography, folklorism, history, linguistics, art history, literary criticism, traditional medicine, and botany.
For folklorists, ethnographers, art historians, historians, religious scholars, psychologists, as well as for all fans of folk culture.
2nd edition