The specific features of the spiritual and material culture of each ethnos go back, as is known, to the most ancient origins and traditions, to the epoch of myth-making, when the symbolisation of man's links with natural and social realities, on which life depended, was motivated by the cultural elements figuratively present in his universe, and their consciousness was the earliest form of ordering the world. It was the Time of an ancient form of social consciousness and a special kind of worldview, which gave metaphoricity to mythological thinking. The mythological and ritual plan of semantics exists precisely in the folklore text, which leads to the distinction of both the real source base related to ritual and everyday life and the mythological origins of the folklore image, which can be illustrated in even and odd numbers.