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From Myth To Folklore

Translated by Nicolas Slater. Mythology is a very ancient, but at the same time a very vital form of creative fantasy. It is a dominant feature in the spiritual culture of primitive societies, and to some extent of ancient societies; it is the principal means of giving an overall sense to the world. In a primitive culture, mythology gives body to an as yet weakly differentiated syncretic unity of unconscious creation, primitive religion and the embryonic forms of prescientific notions about the surrounding world. Mythology provides the soil and the raw material for early forms of religion and of poetry. In recognising the syncretism of mythology as its specific characteristic, we are prevented both from identifying mythology with religion, thereby contrasting it with art (cf. for example the views of A. F. Anisimov, who attempts, in the context of the