(TO RECONSTRUCT THE EARLY STATE OF SIBERIAN MYTHOLOGY) Folklore and mythology of Western Siberia, North-East Asia, and the Lower Amur - Primorye region are united by a number of common plots or, more precisely, plot-forming motifs. None of them have been sufficiently traced, and some have not been identified at all. One part of them connects Western Siberia with the North-East, the other-with the Lower Amur; there are plots known in all three regions. In America, the same motifs are found mainly in areas relatively close to Asia (Alaska, the Northwest Coast, the Plateau), and mainly among the Indians, and not among the Eskimos. The Yakuts and Evenks either do not have these motifs, or they are represented by peculiar variants, and in the Turkic-Mongolian South Siberian folklore they have no analogues at all. Such an area distribution can be explained if we assume that in the past almost all of Siberia was a single folklore province, which broke up after the settlement of the Tungus and Yakuts. The aliens took some of the motifs from the substrate, and brought some of them with them. Even earlier, similar sets of folklore and mythological motifs were characteristic of both Siberia and the north-west of North America. In the format of the article, we will be able to consider only a few selected subjects (motifs) that testify to the ancient cultural unity. We will then turn to some more distant parallels to determine the place of "trans-Siberian" mythology in the Eurasian-American context. Western Siberia - Northeast Asia - Alaska The blind hunter. The wife aims her blind husband's arrow at the beast, lies that he missed, and eats the meat herself. The husband exposes the deception and usually sees through it. In the North-East, the motif is known to the Yukagirs [Zhukova and Chernetsov, 1994, p. 66-68; Nikolaeva, Zhukova, and Demina, 1989, N 48, p. 29-33] and Evens [Novikova, 1987, p. 76-77], and in Western Siberia - to the Khanty. Even and the two Yukaghir versions a ... Read more