The importance of cosmogony and other generational processes for the modern “ontological” perception of reality, the problem of cosmic balance, the relationship between the “divine” and the “chthonic”, constructive and destructive, the interconnectedness of myth and ritual, the “reality” of the creation of the world - these are the main topics This book is devoted to the analysis of specific texts of a wide variety of mythopoetic traditions (from Babylonian to Vedic, ancient Greek and Kabbalistic), genres and eras (from cosmogonic poems and epic monuments BC to the author's works of the 19th century). Otherwise - “The book lying in front of the reader speaks for itself” (from the preface by V.N. Toporov).