About the problem of studying lower mythology: mythological personge

The given work offers the comparative study experience of the mythological personage named Chyzyr Ilyas. The study is based on various mythological texts and local traditions. In the process of studying general and different features of the given personage are outlined, but an amazing monotony of his functions allows to suggest that the given system of features unites him all and allows to characterize him from a new point of view.