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Does ecology affect religious beliefs? Do our beliefs depend on what landscapes surround us and what animals we see? Say, if Jesus never saw lambs, but dealt only with ostriches, would we know a completely different Christianity? And vice versa: does ecology depend on religion? How do monotheistic religions affect global warming, and how does Zoroastrianism affect birds? Through myths and stories, Konstantin Mikhailov talks about why we believe in what we believe, how the environment affects us, and we influence it. Australian myths and South African rituals, the voyages of the Polynesians and the wars of the Indians with the colonialists - chapter by chapter, the author shows how the formation of religion and the course of history are dependent on plants and animals, landscape and climate, and how great religions transform and change nature, helping us to survive, in at the same time, sometimes destroying the environment.