Abstract :
Globally, we humans seem to share certain mythologies. For millennia, these have largely informed our spiritual culture. In one such story, people all over tell a strikingly similar story of a man finding himself in the belly of a gigantic creature, but eventually managing to get out unassisted. The story lives in the cultures of Europe (the Baltic and Scandinavian regions, the Volga region, the Balkans, the Caucasus), in Asia Minor, Western, Central and Southwestern Asia, in Iran and India, along the territories of Siberia, including the coast of the Arctic Ocean, in China and Korea, on Sakhalin and in Japan, on the islands of the Pacific Ocean, in Indonesia and on the Philippines, all over the Americas (from the arctic regions to California, from Mexico to Patagonia), and everywhere, too, in Africa.
