Metamorphism in the myth-making

Abstract

The article raises the problem of the essence of the main historical types of worldview - myth, religion, philosophy and science through their cognitive function. For early societies, myth and myth creation were the main and only ways of thinking and the type of ancient culture. So, the myth is primitive, undeveloped, despite the fact that all subsequent types of worldview contain religion, philosophy and science in it. However, the leitmotif of the article is the idea that even in the modern era of scientific and technological progress, humanity remains within the framework of the mythological worldview, the main attributes of which are imagination, anthropomorphism, subjectivism, relativity. According to the author's point of view, religion, philosophy and science are manifestations of metamorphism in myth-making, since in cognitive questions they are fundamentally different from the mythological worldview. And this puts the problem of the relationship between man and the surrounding world in the ontological and epistemological aspects in a new way.