Institutions of cultural consciousness in the context of myth-poetic experience of the human

The article elaborates the institutions of cultural consciousness concept in order to reveal its difference from the concepts of cultural institutions of a society and cultural forms. The author considers dependence of the cultural consciousness institutions from the human needs, which in the archaic and traditional societies are conceived in close connection with the ritual, magical and sacred religious practices, as well as mythological content of the legends and stories interpreting the origin of the most important cultural precepts of the society from the gods and the heroes. The range of problems under consideration has an interdisciplinary character.