The Distaff and the phallic cult

In the modern world, the urgency of the problems of the ethnic history of the peoples of various regions of our planet is obvious. The growth of ethnic self-awareness, which has been observed everywhere in recent decades, is accompanied by an increase in interest in the historical past of peoples, in the transformations that each of them experienced during its millennium-long formation. It became a spiritual need for a representative of a modern urbanized society to find the roots of his ethnic existence, to know the diverse processes that led to the formation of that ethnocultural environment through which he perceives the world around him.