The phenomenon of the irrational thinking in the eastern style of thinking

Indian mythology and the Vedic worldview based on it are crucially important for understanding of the entire Eastern culture. The mythological complex of representations of India is not only the most ancient (researchers attribute its origin to the 3rd millennium BC) but also surprisingly persistent. The Vedic worldview combines features not only of mythology itself, but also of religion and philosophy; it becomes the initial model for the formation of later religious and philosophical doctrines. It should also be noted that it was the Vedic image of the world that formed the basis of the dominant ideology of Brahmanism in Ancient India, and then, through the modification of the Brahman doctrine, formed the basis of modern Hinduism. Moreover, even religious and philosophical systems which oppose Brahmanism, such as Jainism, Bhagavatism and Buddhism which question the sanctity of the Rigveda and other Samhitas, maintained a worldview continuity and solidarity common with the fundamental images of the Vedic model of the world. Of course, Indian mythology, especially in the early stages of its formation, has much in common with the mythological representations of other world nations. At a certain stage of the development of mythological consciousness we can find syncretic and anthropomorphic motives everywhere, echoes of totemism or animism, the influence of matriarchy, and, of course, the tendency to overcome polytheistic traditions and attraction to theistic monism. However, in the East all these elements of mythological consciousness acquire a special, fundamental prominence, which allows us to raise the question of a specifically Eastern way of attitude towards the world and the key significance of Vedic images in the general model of the world built by the East.