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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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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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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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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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ECLIPSES, MYTHOLOGY, AND ISLAM
الضحی, 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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An Investigation of the Contrast between Modernism and Mythology in the Works of “Hooshang Golshiri” [PDF]
Matn/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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The 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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The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1876 n ...
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Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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Continuity and change in the treatment of frightening subject matter: contemporary retellings of classical mythology for children in the Low Countries [PDF]
, 2014 Ever since its origins, children's literature has dealt with frightening subject matter. The forms of such frightening fiction for children are, however, continuously changing.
Geerts, Sylvie
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