MYTH AND MYTHOPOETICS AS A TYPE OF HUMAN PERCEPTION

Actuality of the research theme is explained by the statement of the latent manifestation of myth in culture, its attributive and even imperative significance for culture. The type of myth that underlies a culture or worldview structures the world accordingly, defining a specific «grid of vision», in fact determining the ideas of causality, space, time, types of classification, methods of identification within a particular historical worldview. The article establishes that the mythopoetic worldview has its own specifics of image construction and special types of patterns. It is concluded that both mythopoetics and analytics as different types of human worldview are equally necessary for a person, because the function of analytical worldview is to maintain human existence itself, while the function of mythopoetics is the need to make this being human.