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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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Mythology and destiny [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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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
doaj   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

The Mythology of Game Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This article explores male popular culture in Australia in the mid‐1940s, particularly men's magazines of the period, to illuminate aspects of the psycho‐sexual dimensions of Australian veterans returning to civil society. The sexual landscape of Australian society had undergone considerable transformation, especially through an increasing ...
Stephen Garton
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Sex determination in mythology and history [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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