La memoria de un fruto: La Fiesta del Pijuayo by María Eugenia Yllia, Nancy Ochoa

“…Its symbolic importance spreads beyond the borders and inscribes itself in the mythological, religious and ritual body of knowledge of indigenous populations from north-west Amazonia in Colombian, Peruvian, Bolivian and Brazilian territories, thus revealing the production’s sophisticated technologies.…”
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Роль персонажа в предвыборном дискурсе by Виктория Марьянчик

“…This article offers a typology of roles which serve a utilitarian, communicative, ethical, verbal, metaphorical and mythological function.…”
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Des reines violentes by Damien Bril

“…To achieve this, however, they did not employ a single formula but each developed personal strategies that varied in their means, objectives and results, borrowing in turn from mythological portraiture and historical representation to define their role in the management of conflicts, and ultimately of royal power.…”
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Au seuil des mondes : la face gorgonéenne dans l’imaginaire funéraire étrusque du vii e siècle av. J.‑C. by Christian Mazet

“…The face of the Gorgon is a mythological figure of the margins. This mask face, as repulsive as it is mediating, entered the repertoire of Mediterranean imagers as early as the 7th century BCE. …”
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Tabù e sensibilità: le precauzioni rituali nel candomblé by Francesca Bassi

“…Indeed, many elements associated with negative events experienced by orixás at mythological time produce, at present time, negative reactions in initiates, who may feel disgust, rejection, intolerance, especially towards food. …”
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‘Diaphaneitè’ and Dante: a New Perspective on Pater’s Early Essay by Julia Straub

“…Despite acute awareness of Walter Pater’s interest in and use of literary, mythological, philosophical and artistic sources in his own writings, his reception of Dante Alighieri has not been investigated sufficiently yet. …”
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La sémantique des noms : taxinomie djihadiste et imaginaire médiéval by Enki Baptiste

“…Jihadist materials, by linking to mythologized past of the call of the Prophet Muḥammad and the first caliphs, exude a medievalist universe imbued with a cyclical reading of the history of conquest, in which jihadists see themselves as the heirs of the Prophet’s companions. …”
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Udmurdi rahva arusaamad kosmogooniast: tähtede nimed ja nende kujutamine rahvaluules by Tatiana Vladykina

“…Cosmogonic concepts of the Udmurt people can be detected through the names of stars, the nomination of which is usually based on mythological cognition. Additional and very significant information about space objects is contained in folklore texts. …”
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Communique Issued at the End of the First International Conference on Community, Trade and Religion in Coastal Yorubaland and Western Niger Delta, Held at Adeyemi College of Educat... by Yoruba Studies Review

“…Over a period of three days, many papers were presented, covering various topics and issues on mythologies, oral traditions, religion, making sense of the Yoruba littoral, economy and intergroup relations in the Gulf of Guinea during the 18th and 19th centuries, trade on the north eastern bank of the Lagos lagoon, history, religion and community formation, moral traditions of the Yoruba and non-Yoruba speaking groups, and many more. …”
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Remains. On Survivance in Translation and Literary Criticism by Agnieszka Pantuchowicz

“…What I attempt to bring to the fore in this paper are the complexities and intricacies involved in linguistic and artistic mythologies of presenting and articulating the world as simply present and living, at the cost of discursively coffining what remains.…”
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The beginning of image development by the society in the interpretation of A.S. Pushkin's works during his lifetime by D.V. Tumanov

“…The genesis of the mythologization of the biography and creative heritage of A.S. …”
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Le droit à l’image : le Cinéma Novo brésilien et l’apparaître by Gustavo Chataignier

“…In this regard, his filmography – mainly Black god, white devil [Deus e o diabo na terra do sol, 1964] – will be read as a "mythological rationality", whose creativeness, by means of proper cinema aesthetic procedures, brings up a new visibility. …”
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Analysis of Intertextual Relationships of Allusions in Mirza Mohammad Seil Akhbāri’s Divan (Manuscripts) by Maryam Jalalvand, Zahra Ghoroghi, Gholamreza Davoodipour

“…The results of this study indicate that allusions in Seil Akhbāri's poetry are often connected to literary romanticism, mythological themes, religious subjects, and religious figures. …”
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« Never Meet Your Heroes ». Généalogie cinématographique et matrice science-fictionnelle dans The Boys by Thomas Carrier-Lafleur, Baptiste Creps

“…The starting point of this reflection lies in the paradigmatic shift embodied by The Boys, following the cinema of Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 2009 and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016), which consists in proposing a realistic rereading of the mythologies of the superhero, whose traditional model is thus strongly criticized, even deconstructed. …”
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Le soleil devient un mythe by Ildikó Lőrinszky

“…Starting from an enigmatic phrase in Flaubert’s correspondence, dating from 1858, this article examines the relation between the Sun and myth, which constitutes one of the key elements of the mythological dimension of Salammbô. It especially focuses on the treatment of this question in two representative works of mythographic studies, The Origin of All Religious Worship by Charles-François Dupuis, and Les Religions de l’Antiquité..., the French adaptation of Frédéric Creuzer’s Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker by Joseph-Daniel Guigniault. …”
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La foule révolutionnaire, l’imaginaire du complot et la violence fondatrice : aux origines de la nation française (1789) by Philippe Münch

“…The conspiracy imaginations actually sustained a dual link with popular violence by constituting, on one hand, an impetus for political action and, on the other hand, a ground for the justification and mythologizing of the storming. This process of legitimization would later provide the founding elements of the first French national narrative.…”
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Juliet’s Migrations in Alice Munro’s Runaway: Making and Losing Connections by Christine LORRE-JOHNSTON

“…This is achieved in various ways: through mythological interpretation (and counter-interpretation) of her life; through the choice of a trilogy, by contrast in particular with a dyad; through the very functioning of the trilogy as pictorial tryptich that allows the circulation and therefore the instability and liveliness of sensations; and through the changing meaning of words, that convey evolving emotions and ways of feeling. …”
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Entre la parole et l’image : le système mythopoétique marubo by Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

“…The transformation and composition relationships of the previous schemes constitute a specialized mythological and poetic knowledge, characterized by transmission and acquisition processes that are connected to the exo-centered Amerindian cosmologies.…”
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Filmowy Poemat pedagogiczny: między Makarenką a wymogami kultury totalitarnej by Jakub Sadowski

“…The key to its reading (which is specific for totalitarian culture) analyzed in this text results from the main function of narratives of this culture, i.e. the transmission of units of its mythological universe. …”
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How the Slovaks Helped Count Dracula: Stereotypes of the Late 19th Century by Martin Kasarda

“…Bram Stoker’s iconic horror novel is heavily influenced by Central and Eastern European mythological pre-Christian stories about the undead, people undergoing lycanthropic metamorphoses, and vampires. …”
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