The fundamental work of A. Afanasiev is the logical conclusion of a series of his works on the history, literature, poetics, mythology, with the result that there was a conceptual look at the mythology, its origin and history. XIX century was a time of intensive study of Slavic mythology, at this time formed the tradition of reading the Slavic mythology from the perspective of "naturmifologicheskoy school" whose views shared by Afanasiev. Representatives...