Trickster. Pretender. Player. The image of the trickster in Euro-Asian folklore

On the material of a number of myths, folklore and literary texts of Indo-European and Asian peoples in the book, the role of trix is ​​considered. Special attention is paid to the peculiarities of the tricker as a cultural hero when changing socio-cultural eras and ideological paradigms. The author approaches the archetype of the triker from an unexpected side, showing the amazing significance of this image in traditional culture and in the human soul. The book is recommended primarily to students, graduate students, scientific workers of the specialties "cultural philosophy", "ethnopsychology", "religious studies", but will be interesting and all thinking readers interested in searching for the deep meaning of events and ideas