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Tales of endings and beginnings : cycles of violence as a Leitmotif in the narrative structure of the Bhadrakāḷīmāhātmya [PDF]
, 2020 The asura’s demise at the hands of the goddess is a theme frequently revisited in Hindu myth. It is the chronicle of a death foretold. The Bhadrakāḷīmāhātmya, a sixteenth century regional purāṇa from Kerala, narrates the tale of fierce goddess Bhadrakāḷī
van Brussel, Noortje
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Time Models in Myth and Music of the 20th Century
Muzikološki Zbornik, 2019 The study deals with the relationship between myth and music of the 20th century. Myth is a structuring principle affecting music by remythologisation. The author analyses time models in mythological thinking in confrontation with new models of time in ...
David Kozel
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The Pygmalion-Galatea myth in relation to simulation scenarios in Star Trek [PDF]
, 2013 Star Trek has existed since 1966, with a total of 738 hours of viewing time. Like most science fiction, the series frequently alludes to religion or myth but censors such references for the modern world-view by sanitising them with scientific or ...
Grech, Victor E.
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Proč Lydie Korabelniková u Čechů tká? (Pozadí vzniku jednoho mýtu) [PDF]
Slovo a Smysl, 2021 This case study deals with the image of Lydia Korabelnikova, a Soviet ‘shock worker’ [or udarnik, celebrated for high productivity], in the former Czechoslovakia and later in the Czech Republic.
Sylva Fischerová
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Three Myths about Time Reversal in Quantum Theory [PDF]
Philosophy of Science, 2017 Many have suggested that the transformation standardly referred to as ‘time reversal’ in quantum theory is not deserving of the name. I argue on the contrary that the standard definition is perfectly appropriate and is indeed forced by basic considerations about the nature of time in the quantum formalism.
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Humanities, 2018 Myth has become a fundamental frame of reference for Western thinking. This paper explores the term and category “myth” from the perspective of folklore studies, with concern for the use of myth as a tool in research. The ways in which myth has been used
Frog
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The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang [PDF]
, 2010 This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films.
Hijjas, Mulaika
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Current status of nylon teeth myth in Tanzania: a cross sectional study
BMC Oral Health, 2018 Background Nylon teeth myth is a belief of associating infant illnesses with bulges on infants’ alveolus that mark the positions of underlying developing teeth and that it is necessary to treat the condition mainly by traditional healers to prevent ...
Emeria Abella Mugonzibwa +3 more
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The Resilience of Camelot: The Kennedy Myth in Danish Newspapers during the Cold War
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2018 John F. Kennedy holds a unique position in American public memory and opinion polls continuously rank Kennedy among the best presidents. The scholarly assessment of Kennedy, however, has changed considerably over time and holds a decisively less ...
Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard
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The Impact of Indian myth on Occidental selected Poems
مجلة الآداب, 2018 The current study deals with the impact and influence of the Indian myth on western literature in general and on the British and American poetry in particular. The concept of myth and its origin is somehow shadowy and ambiguous.
فادي بطرس كرومي حبش
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