Russian Mythology. A Person at the Crossroads of Worlds

The book is dedicated to mythological tales about the search for and visits to the otherworldly realms, about a person who finds himself at the crossroads leading to these paths, and about the search for hidden lands. This book focuses on identifying the universals characteristic of legends about hidden lands, revealing the origins and semantics of the images and conflicts contained within them. These investigations provide a key to understanding mythological images that have been embraced not only in folklore but also in literature and art. The author conducts a comparative analysis of a very large volume of scientific data in the fields of ethnography, folklore studies, history, linguistics, art studies, literary studies, folk medicine, and botany for the first time.
For folklorists, ethnographers, art historians, historians, religious scholars, psychologists, as well as for all lovers of folk culture.