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Comments on comparative mythology 1, about Apollo
, 2021 The posting for today, Valentine’s Day 2020.02.14, marks the fifth anniversary of my consecutive weekly postings for Classical Inquiries. I think of the new posting here as the beginning of a lengthy new series of intermittent comments on comparative ...
Nagy, Gregory
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Dewa Ruci Graphic Narrative Adaptation: Popular Media to Introduce Classical Wayang Mythology and Alternative Character Education Content for Generation Z [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Dewa Ruci is one of the original Indonesian classical mythologies containing educational values that have been socialized for a hundred years through traditional Wayang performances and considered as guidance in behavior.
Adi Danendro
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Thinking comparatively about Greek mythology I, Hēraklēs as athlete
, 2019 There is no single way to think comparatively about mythology—or about anything else. And Greek mythology is surely no exception. In my own work on mythology in general and on Greek mythology in particular, I have found it useful to apply—and to ...
Nagy, Gregory
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The three skies of the Indo-Europeans [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2019 The paper aims to describe the approach that Indo-Europeans had about cosmogony and the structure of the sky. It especially relies on the Greek, Latin and Hurrian conceptions. It is shown that the Indo-European cosmogony envisions the sky as three layers:
Fournet, A.
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Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture, 2022 The nature of human-animal hybrid beings (or therianthropes) is examined in an Animistic (traditional San Bushman) and a Cartesian (Early Modern Western) cosmology. In each ontological ambiguity is imagined and conceptualized in different terms.
Mathias Guenther
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Čajkanović's road from ancient Greek and folk literature to Serbian religion and mythology [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2008 After a careful examination of the works of Čajkanović, the author points out to the importance of his comparative method in studying Ancient Greek literature, traditional folk creation and folk religion and mythology.
Jovanović Bojan
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Inventory and Symbolic Meaning of Traditional Ceremonies Related to the Mythology of Queen Kalinyamat in North Jepara [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The mythology of Queen Kalinyamat is very popular in the North Jepara area, especially Keling District, Donorojo District, Kembang District, Bangsri District, and Mlonggo District.
Andri R.M.,S.S.,M.A. Laura +1 more
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Georges Dumézil og indoeuropæisk religionshistorie
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1984 The purpose of this article is to introduce the methods and theories of Georges Dumézil in relation to Indo-European religion and mythology. Starting with a survey of a number of important theories about the Indo-Europeans in general, and mythological ...
Jens Peter Schjødt
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Violence, Innocence and Redemption in Irvine Welsh’s Chemical Mythos
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2021 Scottish author Irvine Welsh has crafted an internally cohesive cosmology, grounded in mapping a somewhat loosely defined “chemical generation” that helped spearhead a personal brand of anti-Thatcherite counterculture (with an especially heavy focus on ...
ZAMFIRESCU ANDREI-CĂLIN
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Socio-anthropologie, 2017 The aim here is to seek, in the famous quarrel between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, the almost unnoticed matrix of a central question in the human sciences: the status of the invariant.
Alain Petit
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