Horaţiu şi Augustus by Alexandra Ciocârlie

“…In the second part of his life, the poet writes several official or ordered works, all having a propagandistic nature, such as Carmen saeculare, sacred hymn, dedicated to Rome’s protective deities, Diana and Apollo, or the odes in which he honoured the victories against the Germanic tribes registered by the stepsons of Augustus, Tiberius and Drusus.…”
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Disability and Human Diversity: A Reinterpretation of Ẹni-òòṣà1 Philosophy in Yorùbá Belief by Omotade Adegbindin

“…The paper employs the methods of hermeneutics, critical and conceptual analyses to facilitate an understanding that, within the context of Yorùbá belief, disability goes beyond the realm of human beings and involves the active participation of Yorùbá deities, especially Òrìṣà-ńlá or Ọbàtálá. Consequently, it questions the assumptions associated with the recognition of the dichotomy between “normality” and “abnormality” and confronts the mystical and/or mythographic representation of ẹni-òòṣà or persons with disabilities with a view to offering new insights into how persons with disabilities ought to be conceptualized in order to promote their inherent human dignity. …”
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“El rostro de los días”: sobre la corporalidad y las almas entre los mayas k’iche’ de Santiago Momostenango by Alonso Zamora Corona

“…Notable is the existence among the momostecos of the chikop, a soul with the form of a bird very similar to the “bird of the heart” of the Maya Tzeltal, which can be punished by the ancestral deities when people forget to do offerings at their patrilineage’s altars.…”
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New Finds of Terracottas from the Sanctuary of the Nymphs and Demos on the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens by Maria Dourou, Vassiliki D. Georgaka

“…A large number of handmade terracotta figurines belonging to the typical Attic repertoire of the sixth century B.C.E. found in many sanctuaries of female deities in Attica were unearthed from repositories in this sanctuary. …”
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Investir un territoire de frontière : le culte des Matronae dans la Civitas Ubiorum en Germanie Inférieure by Audrey Ferlut

“…Through that process, the Matronae were the most revered deities in Germania Inferior, without any other cult able to equal them.…”
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La ruine angkorienne et le fromager : une mise en cloche d’un paysage fantasmé synonyme d’inaction ? by Sébastien Preuil

“…Today, although most Khmers do not appreciate this image of temples reclaimed by the forest which they consider as disrespectful of deities and a sign of the decline of their civilization, some monuments are voluntarily maintained by the Apsara Authority in a state of ruin in order to perpetuate romantic images which appeal to foreign tourists. …”
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The Concepts and Contextualization of Incantations in Nigerian Popular Music: Juju Music as Paradigm by Kayode Olusola

“… The Yoruba people like any other African tribe are enriched with magical and other traditional spiritual powers that are capable of invoking spirits and deities. These powers actualized with incantation as one of the Yoruba oral literature, to achieve a particular spiritual purpose. …”
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The Proliferation of Yorùbá Religion in the Atlantic during the Nineteenth Century: The Portability of the Orisha by Sheneese Thompson

“…The Yorùbá pantheon is boundless; this paper will explore the transportability of the orisha through three of the representative deities that arrived in the New World: Ogun, Shango, and Oshun.  …”
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The Dynamics of Traditional Religion in the Political Economy of Ìkòrodú by Adéyẹmí Balógun

“…While this traffic was sustained by socio-political institutions such as the Oloja and the Osugbo cult, the role of religious groups – including the Ifá priests, Màgbó, Líw`ẹ and Agẹmọ – remained highly influential because they represent the deities and spirits which shaped Ìkòrodú’s inhabitants’ views about social life, economic activities and political institutions. …”
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Political Tool of “Immoral Rituals” and Resilience of Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea by Nam-lin Hur

“…In Confucian terms, immoral rituals specified those that were dedicated to “ghosts or deities who do not deserve worship”, and, in most cases, they referred to non-Confucian prayer rituals. …”
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Catastrophes au Japon et complexité des relations homme/nature. De l’apport de la médiance… by Jean Lagane

“…In other words, the natural environment in Japan consists, on the one hand, of the inhabited and anthropic world which is referred to by ecumene and, secondly, the uninhabited world, the vast realm of nature and Shinto deities (kami) - ereme. Therefore, the perception that the Japanese have of nature is that of a subject «for granted». …”
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L’enterrement d’une triade divine féminine à Lugdunum : étude du dépôt de la place d’Albon à Lyon (Métropole de Lyon) by Lucas Guillaud, Emmanuel Bernot, Aline Colombier-Gougouzian, Amaury Gilles, Nicolas Garnier

“…In Lyon, most dedications are made by individuals who add the epiclesis Augusta to the name of the deities, known as the Matrae. This adjective emphasizes the official character of the cult. …”
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Toponymie littorale aux îles Marquises, Fenua ‘Enata/Henua ‘Enana, Polynésie orientale (Polynésie française) by Pierre Ottino-Garanger, Marie-Noëlle Ottino-Garanger

“…They give us information on natural features, important characteristics or events, and sometimes tell a story, refer to ancient times, deities and local heroes, often pan-Polynesian. They mostly demonstrate the importance of the coast and sea in the Marquesan culture, where fishing and fishermen play an essential part, still to this day, and even more in ancient times. …”
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Penser le Cthulhucène et son géotraumatisme : le cas Cyclonopedia de Reza Negarestani by Fabien Richert

“…In Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (2008), concepts by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari intersect with the cosmic deities imagined by H.P. Lovecraft, occult Zoroastrian relics explain John Carpenter’s horrific science fiction imagination, and develop a most extravagant hypothesis: oil, a “tellurian entity” imprisoned in the deep layers and formations of the earth, has been waiting for a long time to be released from the depths of the earth and to spread into the atmosphere. …”
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Embodied aesthetics and populist appeal of communist portraits in contemporary Kerala by Anagha Anil

“…By drawing on the concept of darshan, the ritualistic and devotional viewing of deities, the paper endeavours to place the affectivity of these portraits in a broader cultural milieu.…”
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Landschaftsgedächtnis und Geschlechterdiskurse in ausgewählten Werken von Elsa Bernstein und Maria Waser by Monika Mańczyk-Krygiel

“…However, its subversive aspect should be emphasized because, in the cult of the Mother of God, one can find strong reminiscences of the cult of the Great Goddess and other ancient fertility deities. Therefore, old beliefs are not lost forever; they remain part of the cultural heritage and are waiting to be rediscovered. …”
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Ombres et lumières croisées : l’appropriation prométhéenne de la lumière dans les peintures de Wright of Derby (1734-97) et John Martin (1789-1854) by Muriel Adrien

“…In a similar promethean vein, the mythological connotations of Wright’s Italian paintings also tend to extol mankind, in that the viewers can easily identify with the mythological deities associated with the depicted light shows. …”
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Dépôts et pratiques symboliques dans l’établissement aristocratique gaulois de Varennes-sur-Seine, la Justice (Seine-et-Marne) by Jean-Marc Séguier, Ginette Auxiette, Fabien Pilon

“…It is suggested that this assemblage is a propitiatory or consecration offering, perhaps even constituting the portions reserved for the deities of a commensal meal. The decomposing juices from the meat were likely intended as nourishment for the subterranean deities, which makes it possible to compare this structure to the hollow altars of Latin sanctuaries. …”
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La maison aux esprits : configurations spatiales, pluralité religieuse et syncrétismes dans l’espace domestique afro-cubain by Katerina Kerestetzi

“…Such homes generally house a wide range of ritual objects belonging to different religious worlds, such as blood-covered Palo Monte pots; statues and icons of Catholic saints; and effigies of Santería’s deities. How is the domestic space transformed into a ritual one? …”
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Sacral Space of Ethnic Buryatia: The Cult of Healing Springs by Marina M. Sodnompilova

“…The paper traces certain chains of changes in statuses of such springs: from ‘water of immortality’ once granted by deities — to symbols of holiness of Buddhist hierarchs whose efforts gave birth to a number of such arshans. …”
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