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The article is devoted to linguocultorological analysis of ancient mythonyms to describe flora and fauna, space (based on English and German). Relevance of the study is specified by the fact that ancient mythonyms denoting insects, birds, plants, planets, chemical elements, constellations, mountains, animals, substances are insufficiently studied both in native and in foreign linguistics. The paper gives the definitions of such concepts as mythonym, cultural linguistics, general cultural lexicon. Methods of continuous sampling, etymological, semantic and linguoculturological analysis are used in the paper. The paper examines lexical units and gives their thematic classification such as: insects, birds, plants, planets, chemical elements, constellations, mountains, animals, substances taken from the ancient mythology from the position of cultural linguistics. The etymology and examples from English and German fiction are given for deeper understanding of ancient mythonyms. The author pays attention to the peculiarities of spelling mythonyms in English and German. The analysis revealed that the feature of ancient mythonyms in English and German is that they refer to general cultural lexicon because they are used in two or more languages.