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The Kojiki/Nihon Shoki Mythology and Chinese Mythology: Theme, Structure, and Meaning

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This essay will compare myths found in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki with thematically and structurally similar Chinese myths, and other Japanese texts, in order to shed light on the meanings of both Japanese and Chinese mythology. The authors’ approach
Xiaofei Tu, Wendy Xie
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Mitologi dan Konstruksi Budaya Masyarakat Bubakan Mijen Semarang dalam Tinjauan Roland Barthes

open access: yesFikrah: Jurnal Ilmu Aqidah dan Studi Keagamaan, 2020
This article examines the process of meaning construction of mythology which takes its toll on cultural reconstruction in a society. The researcher employed Roland Barthes's Semiotic theory. By this theory, mythology is examined based on the significance
Fakhrudin Aziz
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Mythmaking as self-making and nation-building: a reading of Wole Soyinka’s “Idanre”

open access: yesActa Academica, 2003
This paper investigates how Soyinka uses Yoruba mythology in his poem “Idanre”. It avers that Soyinka uses Ogun as his tutelary deity in an attempt at self-reclamation and nation-building. It shows how Soyinka transposes the nature and symbolism of Ogun
Sandile Ndaba
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The Mythology of Queen Kalinyamat and its Correlation against Women's Behavior in North Jepara: A Feminist Study [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The mythology of Queen Kalinyamat that developed in Jepara is very popular among its people. In the history of Jepara, Queen Kalinyamat is the heir to the line of guardianship and royal line.
Martini Laura Andri Retno   +1 more
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Ancient Myths and the Construction of Regional Literary History — The General History of Sichuan Literature

open access: yesContemporary Social Sciences, 2019
The literary study of ancient mythology is a rational and necessary prerequisite for the study of the general history of Sichuan literature in the Pre-Qin period, though it can go beyond the study of literature.
Kong Xuyou, Wu Lingwei
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Marvel Presents a Global Utopia and Confronts Nationalism: Eternals as a New Mythology Forged from Western Roots

open access: yesHumanities, 2022
Marvel’s 2021 film Eternals presents a new mythology for a new century, for an audience grappling with the complexity of postcolonialism and concerned about resurging white nationalism. Its mythology, while rooted in Western narratives, presents a utopia
Emma de Beus
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Myth and mythology

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2002
The actualization of the study of issues related to the mythical and religious representations of our people is due to the need to solve new complex socio-moral problems facing the modern Ukrainian society.
V. Garin
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ECLIPSES, MYTHOLOGY, AND ISLAM

open access: yesالضحی, 2021
Comparative religion is a field of study through which views of various religions about a particular topic or sets of topics can be collated, interpreted, and systematically compared for attaining useful insights and broadening the understanding of ...
Muhammad Nabeel Musharraf   +1 more
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Guy Butler's Demea

open access: yesThe Grove, 2022
While the relation between classical mythology and postcolonialism may appear as an inconsistency, many postcolonial writers identify postcolonial issues in the literary reception of the classics, and look back to classical mythology and their own ...
Marta Villalba-Lázaro
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An Investigation of the Contrast between Modernism and Mythology in the Works of “Hooshang Golshiri” [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2011
The advent of modernism and the basic theory of relativity in the Iranian collection of fiction has brought to the fore a need to reappraise myths and mythology.
reza satari
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