Keyword: «mythology»

Social and cultural modernization is directly related to myths, which fills the emotional content of the provisions of a specific doctrine and thus provides a high degree of mobilization of followers. Myth updated socio-cultural symbols and thus provides an opportunity to use the potential of the archetypes.

The author considers the system of functioning of the myths in the mass political consciousness. The identified methods of mass media influence by means of mythological elements on the mass consciousness are marked out. The main emphasis is on the methods of implementation of political myths in the media.

The mythologization of professional consciousness is seen as a form of structuring thinking of the future of the teacher-psychologist, defining the conditions of lack of knowledge of a few distorted view of peda-gogical phenomena. In the structure of professional consciousness of students mythological components characterize the expansion of knowledge and its «embedding» in the fabric of the fragmented scientific ideas in connection with their nonsystematization, a lack of reflection, criticality, and also under the influence of motivational-semantic entities personality, the determinants of the acceptability of distorted, but received the appearance of a scientific substantiation of concepts. The article addresses the following mythological components of professional consciousness of future teachers-psychologists: perverted scientific naive-mythological, compensatory and mythological, protective-mythological, aesthetic-mythological, transcendental-mythological, design-mythological.

This work contains knowledge about the mythology of the Yakut and Nogai peoples. A comparative analysis of the mythological images of the Sakha and Nogai people is given. The purpose of this work is to highlight common features in the tales and traditions of these peoples. In the course of the work, the myths of the Sakha and Nogai people were studied, images and language were compared. Knowledge of the native culture, as well as the culture of the people living on the territory of the Republic of Sakha(Yakutia) is a priority in the policy of the Republic. The main result of the research work was materials for lectures, quizzes, extracurricular activities, in order to familiarize with the mythology of various peoples.

There were many students of the mythological school in Russia. Follower of the brothers Grimm and Fedor Ivanovich Buslaeva, Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev became one of the main representatives of the school of junior mythologists. Alexander Nikolaevich is a major researcher of mythological theory.