Historian and folklorist Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev is widely known as the publisher of "Folk Russian Tales." However, he was also a deep researcher of mythology, the author of numerous works in which he explained and compared the traditions, customs, myths of our ancestors. These works are still of interest to researchers of folklore and a wide range of readers. The book includes the most interesting materials from the creative heritage of A.N. Afanasyev.