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A comparative study in Lacandon Maya mythology

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 1982
Un estudio comparativo de dos versiones de un mito lacandon. La interpretación de los mitos constituye desde mucho tiempo un objeto de discusión en antropología. ? Debe considerarse el mito como una descripción de la realidad etnográfica o como la expresión de estructuras latentes ?
Boremanse, Didier
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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]

open access: yesE3S 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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The three skies of the Indo-Europeans [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy 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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Rethinking Greek Mythology and Indian Mythology

open access: yes, 2022
This paper aims to look at Greek mythology, the “Iliad” and Indian mythology, “Ramayana” as a comparative study to foster common similarities based on plot construction and art of characterization.
Md. Amir Hossain
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Therianthropes in a Cartesian and an Animistic Cosmology: Beyond-the-Pale Monsters versus Being-in-the World Others

open access: yesJournal 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]

open access: yesGlasnik 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]

open access: yesE3S 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

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt 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

open access: yesAmerican, 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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Towards the Reconstruction of the Name and Image of a Great God in the Ancient Armenian Tradition [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2019
Pre-Christian gods of Armenians, known from the works of ancient Greek and Armenian authors, appear under Iranian and Greek names. But same as other peoples, Armenians had to have their own gods with original names in the earliest times of their history.
Armen Ye. Petrosyan
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