According to the official version, the first people appeared in Europe forty thousand years ago. It is believed that these were people from African tribes. Around the same time, the first ritual images carved on rocks appeared in Australia. Similar images were found in Namibia. The first evidence that pointed to the difference between man and animal were the simplest concepts of the wanderings of the soul and very primitive magic. Later, all modern sciences and religions emerged from ancient magic. The book by the famous researcher of the mystical history of mankind, Sergei Vasilyevich Gordeev, tells how, by falling into errors and freeing himself from them, a person became a person. It tells how ancient magic gradually turned into modern world religions. A large number of illustrations makes reading this book not only useful, but also very enjoyable.