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The Human Beings’ Submissiveness to Supernatural Beings in Folktales from Central Sulawesi
RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa, 2023 Indonesia is an archipelagic nation of thousands of islands with vast and diverse cultures. Every inhabited island must have at least a culture comprising cultural products such as rites, tales, ceremonies, etc. However, some individual islands might also have more than one culture.
Manggala, Simon Arsa
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Jötnar as “supernatural beings”: a cognitive matrix of the Old Norse verbal representations
Філологічні студії, 2023 This article addresses verbal representations of the mythic concept JÖTUNN (Engl. JOTUN) in Old Norse eddic texts. Jötnar as supernatural beings inherent to the Nordic mythic space are regarded as a class of open systems marked by a set of hypertrophied ...
Oleksandr Kolesnyk
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MITOLOGI SEBAGAI PENDIDIKAN KEBENCANAAN DALAM MEMAHAMI ERUPSI GUNUNG MERAPI
Refleksi Edukatika, 2019 This study aims to analyze community culture in understanding the eruption of Mount Merapi and analyze the meaning of education implied in the mythology of Mount Merapi. This study uses a qualitative approach.
Dr. Septian Aji Permana, S.Pd., M.Pd. +1 more
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REPRESENTATION OF ‘FAMILY’ IN INDIAN TELEVISION SERIALS
Anthropological Researches and Studies, 2018 Objectives. Effects of globalization have been limited in relation to Indian family structure and culture. Television, an important source of infotainment for most Indian households, reflects social reality with real-time, tempered with elements of drama
Gudipaty Nagamallika
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Különleges Bánásmód, 2023 This article contains the basic structural features of a same-named Ph.D. research thesis. The main tasks of the research are to identify three focal fields with mythological elements, whether they are phenomena, objects, people, or creatures that some ...
Milena Medojevic
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Portraits of ‘angels’: Some Ancient Near Eastern and Old Testament perspectives in relation to ATR belief system(s) [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021 For the modern mind the notion of heavenly beings or ‘angels’ is an enigmatic and fascinating phenomenon. In the Ancient Near Eastern world and in the Hebrew Bible the word for ‘angel’, namely mal’ āk, is widely attested and refers to both human and ...
Prof Dirk J Human
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Dreams as a source of supernatural agent concepts
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 We present a theory of the creativity of dreams as well as psychopathology of religious delusions with respect to production of fundamental forms of religious cognition—specifically supernatural agent cognitions.
Patrick eMcnamara +2 more
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‘Ka asi kasya asi, kalyāṇi?’ The Ambiguity of the yakṣas in the Araṇya Parva of the Mahābhārata
Religions, 2022 Supernatural entities are often described as ambiguous, but ambiguity is underdetermined and undefined. This article has a twofold goal: first of all, it constructs an ideal-type model for identifying and specifying ambiguity in supernatural beings ...
Arjan Sterken
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Fate in the religion of the Lepchas
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1967 The Lepchas are mountainous agriculturalists who live in the State of Sikkim in the Himalayas and in some adjacent Indian districts. To the Lepchas the supernatural world is divided into two groups, the rum, or the mainly benevolent supernatural beings ...
Halfdan Siiger
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