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The Kojiki/Nihon Shoki Mythology and Chinese Mythology: Theme, Structure, and Meaning
Religions, 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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, 2005 In Albanian tradition, the essential attributes of the mythological figures of destiny seem to be symbolic interchangeable representations of birth itself. In addition, their mythical combat is but the symbolic representation of the cyclic return in the
Doja, A.
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The Mythology of Game Theory [PDF]
, 2012 Non-cooperative game theory is at its heart a theory of cognition, specifically a theory of how decisions are made. Game theory\u27s leverage is that we can design different payoffs, settings, player arrays, action possibilities, and information ...
A. Lupia +17 more
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Mythmaking as self-making and nation-building: a reading of Wole Soyinka’s “Idanre”
Acta 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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Contemporary 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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Mitologi dan Konstruksi Budaya Masyarakat Bubakan Mijen Semarang dalam Tinjauan Roland Barthes
Fikrah: 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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Humanities, 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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Sex determination in mythology and history [PDF]
, 2005 The history of ideas on how the sexes became divided spans at least three thousand years. The biblical account of the origin of Eve, and the opinions of the philosophers of classical Greece, have unexpected bearings on present-day ideas.
Mittwoch, U
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The Mythology of Queen Kalinyamat and its Correlation against Women's Behavior in North Jepara: A Feminist Study [PDF]
E3S 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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Українське 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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