Many people know that philosophy and religion were based on mythology. In myths were scooped up inspiration of sculptors, writers and artists, as well as many other figures. But in nowadays, people are inclined to underestimate mythology, mistakenly equating it with children's tales. But it is full of wisdom accumulated in centuries, and not one other genre of literature is able to enrich the human soul with its rich symbolic images. Myth is a legend conveying people's ideas about the world, the place of a man in it, about the origin of all things, about gods and heroes. The main goal of the myth is to ask for patterns, models for any important action performed by a person. Mythology differs in most ethnoses, but almost always allows for parallels