“…Biography of the backwoods boy whose dedication to education, honesty, and equality, made him yesterday's hero, today's legend…”

“…Su estudio consta de cinco apartados: ceremonias en las que un hombre se disfraza de mujer y viceversa; los dioses dobles, no sólo poseedores de dos sexos, sino escindidos en un dios masculino y otro femenino; los héroes masculinos transformados en héroes femeninos; el andrógino; la figura del hermafrodita como engendradora o resultado de teorías filosófico-religiosas…”

“…The thesis inquires into the nature and form of those tales in the Russian oral tradition that have as their main theme the journey of the central hero…”

“…From the international bestselling author of The Ingenious Language, a fascinating portrait of antiquity's most misunderstood, complex, and surprisingly modern hero…”

“…Our lives should be seen as a hero's journey, a quest filled with challenges, turbulence and adventure. …”