About the book: 2004 / The book of the famous historian (PhD) and writer Vladimir Shcherbakov is dedicated to the secrets of ancient civilizations. Based on sources, myths, legends, as well as the works of modern historians and philologists, the author argues that the gods are distant ancestors who were deified. The author takes the origins of Slavic mythology beyond the horizon outlined by history - into the vast distance of millennia and recreates, reconstructs Russian myths based on their fragments and fairy tales that have come down to us.