MYTHOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT WRITTEN TEXTS OF THE SLAVS

The problems of this article may be of some interest to modern Orthodoxy, which has recently been concerned about the surge of neo-paganism, which is expressed in the rejection of traditional Christian values and norms of behavior and seeks to replace them with other worldview positions. The history of the study of East Slavic paganism dates back at least three centuries. The methods of studying the mythological representations of the ancient Slavs changed and became more complex. Such research was based on an increasingly solid methodological basis, and the works of scientists of the XVIII-XIX centuries were replaced by more complex and formalized monographs of specialists from an even wider range of Sciences who considered Slavic paganism from narrow professional positions. Based on the results obtained, it is assumed that the existence of the ancient Russian Khors cult is compared with Dazhdbog and this pair of deities, in turn, is compared with the ancient Indian Ashwins, who are the most striking example of Indo-European twin deities associated with the solar cult known to science at the moment