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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ? [PDF]

open access: yesItinéraires, 2015
The concept of “individual mythology” is haunting the twentieth century: pushed forward by the capitalistic individualims, it means picturing ourselves, imagining our identity and performing it through the medias. It comes along with the idea of an individual writing everyday his own history, and its most common form was the personal photo album.
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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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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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