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This article highlights the problem of reconstructing the thanatological aspects of religious mythology and practice in the ethnic religion of the Eastern Slavs. For this purpose, a reconstruction complex was used, containing a concentrate of data known to researchers of the ethnic religion of the Eastern Slavs, such as Klein, Anichkov, Tokarev, Lovmyansky, etc. The reconstruction complex was formed from works that were recommended by the Rodnover movement itself and directly devoted to the study of the ethnic religion of the Eastern Slavs. In addition, the selected scientists were recognized in the scientific community and contained in their works reconstructive models of the ethnic religion of the Eastern Slavs. Information concerning the issues of death and the posthumous fate of a person in the East Slavic religious tradition was highlighted from the reconstruction complex. For comparison with the resulting religious complex, the "Slavic Book of the Dead" was taken as a sample of the Rodnover thanatological thought by the authorship of the Magus Veleslav, one of the initiators of the creation of a large Rodnover organization "Union of Slavic Communities of the Slavic Native Faith". The research used methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as a comparative approach. It is revealed that the modern Russian Rodnover movement does not carry out the reconstruction of the ethnic religion of the Eastern Slavs that they claimed. It creates a new genotheistic religion that eclectically uses ideas taken from various religions of the world. The above also concerns the thanatological aspects of religious mythology. For example, in the Slavic Book of the Dead, the way the righteous and the unjust are distributed in the afterlife resembles the mythology of Islam. And the subsequent rebirth of the righteous in the "circle of Veles" and the departure of the righteous from this "circle" refers to Hindu mythology.
Keywords:thanatology, religious mythology, ethnic religion of the Eastern Slavs, Rodnovery, new religious movements, history of religion, comparative religious studies.
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