Myth on the border between man and nature
pp. 185-194
in: Jan Selmer Methi, Andrei Sergeev, Basia Nikiforova (eds), Borderology: cross-disciplinary insights from the border zone, Berlin, Springer, 2019Abstract
The article analyzes the peculiarities of mythological consciousness formed on the border of Nature and Man. The text deals with the process of the symbolization of the natural world in mythological consciousness is considered in which myth becomes a means of domesticating and humanizing the world, whereas the imbalances in the interaction between Man and Nature coincides with eschatological motifs.