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Cinematic Mirages of Theodor Dreiser [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2021 The article examines the history of cinematic versions (film adaptations) of T. Dreiserʼs novel An American Tragedy, the key concept of the analysis being that of a mirage (phantasm). It is the unattainable and unconscious desire for the mirage of wealth
Olga Yu. Antsyferova
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Las minas de oro de los incas, el Sol y las culturas del Collasuyu
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2017 The conquest by the Incas of the gold mines in Collasuyu had several aims: open doorways to the Andesuyu and to its wealth. Before the Incas, this huge mining region situated in the valleys was the possession of the Pukina-Colla, descendants of Tiwanaku ...
Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne
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Semiotics of the Bronze Age burials in wheeled vehicles in the Northern Pontic area
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2022 The article focuses on mythological and ritual role of the wagons in the burial rite of the Early and Middle Bronze Age in the Northern Pontic area and neighboring territories. The paper considers the factors that underlie the cosmological beliefs of the
Iuliia V. Kozhukhovskaia
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Kres. Die Sonnwendbräuche der Slowenen
Slovenske kresne šege
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015 The paper analyses the traditional way of celebrating Midsummers’ Day in Slovenia, which combines the pagan cult of Sun-worship with folk beliefs and customs connected with fire, processions, singing, gift-giving, beliefs in the magical power of plants ...
Helena Ložar-Podlogar
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Archaeoastronomical studies of the pillars complex of the Bronze Age on the Karataevo fortress [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2019 The article presents the results of archaeoastronomical analysis of the pillars complex of the Bronze Age, the pillar pits of which were discovered during archaeological excavations at the Karataevskaya fortress in 2001.
Vodolazhskaya, L.N., Ilyukov, L.S.
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The orientation of the Mithraea in Ostia Antica [PDF]
, 2016 We conducted an investigation on the orientations and geometrical content of the Mithraea of Ostia Antica. A geometrical CAD study based on the most reliable plans from the Archives of the Sovrintendenza Speciale per il Colosseo, il MNR e l’Area ...
Carnevale, Flavio +6 more
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Asia Anteriore Antica, 2019 Two important female deities of the Hittite Pantheon are related to the Storm God of Zippalanda: the Sun Goddess of the Earth, surely worshipped in the same city, and the Hattian Kata??a “The Queen”, whose cult flourished in the nearby town Ankuwa ...
Giulia Torri
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The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2016 The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
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Old Kingdom sun cult on the basis of theophoric anthroponyms [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2016 Beliefs connected to the sun formed a significant part of the ancient Egyptian religion. Even in the Old Kingdom there were a number of gods with solar aspects: Re, Khepri, Atum, Horus, Sokar, Akhti, Nemti, Nefertem, Weneg, or Shu.
Marie Peterková Hlouchová
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The traditional symbolism of the Sun Dance Lodge among the Wind River Shoshoni
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1979 Of all the North American Indian religious ceremonies no one is as spectacular and as well-known as the Sun Dance of the Plains Indians. The information collected on the subject since the turn of the century is quite extensive.
Åke Hultkrantz
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