This article features globalization in its two forms: natural globalization and artificial globalization.The need of natural globalization becomes more obvious taking into account the growth of challengeto the humankind. Artificial globalization nowadays is provided by westernization. Influence ofglobalization is more obvious at the mental than at the physical level, construction of the historicalpast and its mythologization played major roles in the course of globalization. Different relationsbetween ideology and myth can be traced on the example of the destinies of two works, in which almostthe same idea of the world order is represented. These are “The Oera Linda Book” and “The SnowQueen”. As a part of the study, seven invariants of the fairy tale by H.C. Andersen were analyzed.The carried-out analysis is based on a hypothesis that artificial globalization influences mythology ofcertain cultures, distorting it for own needs, resorting to different methods for different forms of themyth representation. So, myths in their pure form, demanded by the adult representatives of culture,are subjected to criticism, they are charged of falsification. The ultimate goal of such an influence is tobury the myth in oblivion as false. The myth that is represented in the reduced art form for children’saudience has the changed plot basis and in this new form it is subjected to maximum replication tosubstitute the original version in a period of time
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