The book "Myths of Creation and the End of the World" invites you to embark on a journey through time and space and see the world through the eyes of ancient people. Under the cover, there are cosmogonic (about the origin of the universe), etiological (about the appearance of nature, celestial bodies, plants, and animals), anthropological (about the birth of man), and eschatological (about the end of the world) myths from various peoples — ancient Greeks and Egyptians, Indians, Celts, Scandinavians, Slavs, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans. For the ancestors of modern humans, these myths did not just explain the structure of the world and the origin of everything around, but also established social order, laid down notions of good and evil, and became the foundation of culture and everyday life. The heroes and plots of these tales are largely similar, yet each people and civilization answers eternal questions in its own way: Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? From the book, you will learn why chaos is a necessary condition for creation, but by no means the driving force, what else is needed for things and living beings to become themselves, from what the demiurge gods "molded" the first humans, and how beer can save humanity.
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