The book of the outstanding Russian philologist V.N. Toporov is a study of parallels between ancient Greek and ancient Indian poetry in order to reconstruct the structure of the archaic Indo-European hymn. The texts of Pindar and Rigveda are analyzed at various levels: from lexical to figurative. Previously, only certain fragments of this work were published, in the most complete (although not brought to the end by the author) form is published for the first time. For a wide range of students and humanities scholars, as well as everyone interested in the history of literature, language and culture.