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Terraforming Religious Consciousness: Race as a Signifier in New World Religious Cosmogony

Religions, 2020
What is the connection between race and religious diversity? This question has emerged as particularly important in recent times, following heightened discussions on racial justice, equity, and the organization of society with regard to racial oppression.
Malik J. M. Walker
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The Scream Phenomenon in the Poetry of Ted Hughes [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2023
The article examines the phenomenon of artistic depiction of the scream in the poetry of the 20th century English poet Ted Hughes. The analysis of the poems reveals a gradual semantic expansion of the poetic image: while in early animalistic and ...
Antonina A. Myasnikova
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The Echo of Creation

Temenos, 2021
The article explores the idea of an echo, both literal and structural, that connects Old Norse cosmogony and eschatology. The motif of a bellowing sound or cry appears in cosmogony in the figure of Ymir, “Crier”, who is killed by the Æsir, and from his ...
Jan Kozák
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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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Interpretation of bang: Potentials of observing contemporary cosmogony as a mythical narrative [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2021
The text provides a summary of the arguments that justify the anthropological pursuit of modern cosmology, especially its receptive and popular expression.
Tomašević Milan
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Stanisław Lem the Player – An Inspiration by a Fictional Review of a Non-Existent Publication

Profil, 2021
Lem’s The Perfect Vacuum is a collection of reviews by fictional authors of non-existent scientific papers. This includes a lecture by Alfred Testa delivered on the occasion of the Nobel Prize in Physics. It is actually a recapitulation of a cosmological
Josef Krob
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PRE-ISLAMIC WORLD VIEWS OF THE KAZAKH PEOPLE: FROM THE END OF THE 19TH TO THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY [PDF]

Trames, 2023
This article analyses the problems of the traditional world views and beliefs of the Kazakh people. The main purpose of the article is to show the features of such cultural phenomena as ‘religious syncretism’ and ‘hybrid worldview’.
Rustem Dosmurzinov
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Dragonslayer: musical composition and mythical thought

Revista Vortex, 2021
The work V.trahan (2017), composed by Luigi Antonio Irlandini for baritone saxophone and percussion, creates a new relationship between musical and mythical thought, explored also in many of his other compositions since 1988.
Luigi Antonio Irlandini
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The Pala’wan Highlanders and the World they live in: “A Weaving of Golden Threads”

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2022
Nicole Revel, Emeritus senior researcher at CNRS, Doctor Honoris causa (Humanities) Ateneo de Manila University, Linguist and anthropologist, works since 1970 in the Philippines. In collaboration with the Palawan Highlanders she described their language (
Nicole Revel
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Feminine Origin in the Cosmogonic ideas of the Slavic and Eastern Philosophy: a Comparative Analysis [PDF]

Философия и космология, 2023
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the role of the feminine principle in the cosmogonic ideas of the Slavic peoples and the philosophy of the Ancient East, in particular, India and China, to the establishment of common and distinctive ...
Oksana Petinova, Violeta Svitlytska
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