НUMAN HISTORY AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN THE ESCHATOLOGICAL MYTHS

Abstract

The paper in itself is a part of the research of the cosmogonical and eschatological mythology of the North Europian peoples (the Germanic world) in comparison to the Vedantic and Hinduistic mythology, the mythology of Mesoamerican peoples, the peoples of Siberia from the point of view of linguoculturology, ethnolinguistics and histrical anthropology. The target of the research is either confirmation or refutation of the existed conceptions on the universality or individuality of the processes of mythological and religious view formation. The paper presents two concepts of human history – cyclic and linear – in comparison with the mythological and religious ideas about the origin of the Universe – archaic myths and rituals associated with the sacred space and time.

Keywords

• eschatology, personal eschatology, human history, epos, myth, cyclic and linear history