Поэтические воззрения славян на природу Том 1

Fundamental work by AN Afanasyev is the logical conclusion of a series of his works on the history, literature, poetics, mythology, which has led to a conceptual view of the mythology, its origin and history. XIX century was a time of intensive study of Slavic mythology, this time formed the tradition of reading the Slavic mythology, from the standpoint of "naturmifologicheskoy school" whose views shared by Afanasiev. Representatives of this school believed that mythology arose from human attempts to explain natural phenomena. The founder of solar-meteorological school AN Afanasyev proceeded from the fact that the myth is "the ancient poetry," tells the story of the life of nature in its "daily and yearly transformations." Collective poet and creator of the mythology is the people who created both the language and the myths. " From the point of view of the author mythology 'appeared in the sky "with the deification of celestial natural phenomena, but then" went down to the ground, taking the most bizarre shell, causing all kinds of story about what is happening in this world saturated with images of all kinds of "evil." The author draws the material of data from different areas: the epic of different nations, fairy tales, the works of linguists, dialectology, draws attention to the legislation, the provincial periodicals. Light, dark, heaven, earth; sun, storm, wind, rainbows, rain, evil dwarfs, witches, water, goblins and other modifications of the elements of good and evil - all reviewed by the author based on the data of science of his time. Through the plan, the methodology and the work was attracting material encyclopedia, which records all the possible ways of representing nature and the manifestation of the spirit of teamwork. Reprint edition of 1865 - 1869 years.