When Spanish priests arrived in Yucatan in the 16th century, they found hundreds of books and burned them. One of the types of chronicles of the ancient peop...

The book includes fairy tales about animals, magical and everyday tales of the peoples of Africa, Australia and Oceania. Compilation, introduction and notes ...

“Ural Batyr” is the largest and oldest epic work of Bashkir folklore, which has come down to us from time immemorial. It occupies a worthy place among the gr...

Tom compiled a scientifically commented translation of the next book of the great ancient Indian epic “Mahabharata”.

The crown of the verbal art of the Yakut people, their favorite and most characteristic type of creativity are the great heroic tales called olonkho.

The land of Azerbaijan is rich and fertile. The pearls of her creative treasury, which preserves the spiritual heritage of the ancient people, are innumerabl...

Geser is the hero of the Buryat epic, a celestial being who descended to earth and turned into a man to perform a feat of good. He must defeat the monster th...

Myths and legends of the peoples of the world are the greatest cultural heritage of mankind, interest in which has not waned for many centuries. And not only...

The book is composed of fairy tales and folk stories of various peoples of India, selected from the books of the series, which was published by the Indian pu...

The book is a translation of a sacred ancient Indian treatise containing the Hindu concept of the afterlife. The topography of the hellish worlds, the paths ...

“The Song of the Nibelungs” is one of the most famous epic works of world literature. A heroic epic written by an unknown author at the beginning of the 13th...