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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O Desvelamento do Mito Arturiano by Edileide Brito

“…To rigour, the literature uses mythological materials like straight source of events and historical characters, in which the history is deformed by popular imagination, where it draws on the myth a profile like concretization of a Utopia, the fact of literary work to be a sort of concrete Utopia keeps alive the hope and the ideal. …”
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Des allégories des Saisons sur les tissus coptes by Amandine Mérat

“…But during Late Antiquity, the nimbus was first and foremost an attribute of Roman and pagan origin, destined to highlight all sorts of illustrious figures, whether historical or mythological, such as emperors, heroes and allegories. …”
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A Comparative study of Daiva's Sin and its Evolution in the Stories of Ancient Iran and Ta'ziehs of Daiva's Tying Thumb Based on Six Poetic Verses by Mahdi mohamadi, Adel Meghdadian, Abolfazl Tajik

“…In Persian and Zoroastrian mythology, the demon Az, is one of the strongest allies and accomplices of the devil. …”
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The axiological conceptual functions of the “Russian World” (Russkiy mir): mythologeme, cultureme, and ideologeme by Anastassiya Starodubtseva

“…This lack of clarity is further complicated by its sociocultural, mythological, and ideological dimensions, particularly those promulgated by the Russian government. …”
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El ave como cielo: la presencia del ave chan en las bandas celestes mayas by Rogelio Valencia Rivera, Daniel Salazar Lama

“…In Mayan pictorial tradition, the use of certain iconographic elements serves to transmit messages with a high symbolic content, whether these messages refer to mythological narratives, or illustrate historical events that approximate mythical ones. …”
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Snake and staff symbolism and healing by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…In this article the mythological basis for this symbol is reviewed. The Asclepian emblem has been associated with health care since the 5th century BC when Asclepius became accepted by the Greeks as the god of healing. …”
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Le Bestiaire d’amour de Gustave Flaubert (1) by Loïc Windels

“…It is as if Flaubert did with Medieval legends what Freud would do a little later with Greek mythology. These observations and other similar ones have already been made, and there is no doubt that the reader who loves the dense and suggestive prose that is The Legend of Saint Julian is familiar with them. …”
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The Greek shamans, the Scythian Psychonauts and the Spirit of Eranos by Putnik Noel

“…Meuli and Dodds characterized this form of religiosity as shamanistic, recognizing its patterns in a wide range of Greek mythological and legendary figures and historical personalities. …”
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Chased by a Unicorn by Georgios Orfanidis

“…The parable of the Futile Life, which is an excerpt of the medieval, multilingual novel Barlaam and Josaphat, conceals a unique interpretative approach, in terms of symbolism, of an ancient and intercultural mythological symbol, that of the unicorn. From a first examination of the cultural environment – textual and iconographical – of the unicorn’s appearance, it would seem that the symbolic substance of this animal motif was imbued with the notions of the high virtues of the Christian ideological system (e.g. virginity, purity, salvation). …”
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تقنيات السير الذاتي في " تقرير إلى غريكو "لـ نيكوس كازانتزاكيس أنموذجا by Feghrour Hala

“…His work transcends traditional autobiographical frameworks by incorporating mythological and cultural elements, enriching the narrative with profound symbolism and emotional depth. …”
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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“…This is analyzed from spiritual and mythological angles. With an overwhelming lucidity, the paper posits that actions in the play are influenced by an assumption that any collective catastrophe or adversities are the outcomes of disharmony between disparate cosmos. …”
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تقنيات السير الذاتي في " تقرير إلى غريكو "لـ نيكوس كازانتزاكيس أنموذجا by Feghrour Hala

“…His work transcends traditional autobiographical frameworks by incorporating mythological and cultural elements, enriching the narrative with profound symbolism and emotional depth. …”
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On the History of Creation of the Atlas of Tibetan Medicine (17th century): source aspects by Yumzhana Zh. Zhabon

“…The second group consists of new composition of Buddhist and religious-mythological content, as well as numerous images of people in everyday life, created specifically for the illustrating the Vaiḍūrya sngon po. …”
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A Semiotic Analysis on Confession of a Shopaholic Trailer: Roland Barthes Approach by Nur Syasya Qistina Mazeree, Norhakimin Ashaari, Nadzirah Munirah Ramli, Nur Arifah Zahiah Zuri

“…The research identified a total of six pieces of data included in the trailer and provided detailed explanations of their denotation, connotation, and mythological significance. The study of signals and myths in this research aims to bridge the gap between the established framework and other audio-visual media. …”
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A Semiotic Analysis on Confession of a Shopaholic Trailer: Roland Barthes Approach by Nur Syasya Qistina Mazeree, Norhakimin Ashaari, Nadzirah Munirah Ramli, Nur Arifah Zahiah Zuri

“…The research identified a total of six pieces of data included in the trailer and provided detailed explanations of their denotation, connotation, and mythological significance. The study of signals and myths in this research aims to bridge the gap between the established framework and other audio-visual media. …”
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تقنيات السير الذاتي في " تقرير إلى غريكو "لـ نيكوس كازانتزاكيس أنموذجا by Feghrour Hala

“…His work transcends traditional autobiographical frameworks by incorporating mythological and cultural elements, enriching the narrative with profound symbolism and emotional depth. …”
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Socio‐economic evaluation of human–dog coexistence: A 40,000 years history by Mohammad Fallahi, Ali Akbar Masoudi, Rasoul Vaez Torshizi, Ali Maghsoudi

“…Subsequently, questions arise regarding the important and symbolic roles that canines played in ancient cultures, religions and mythological traditions. Specifically, how have these roles changed through history? …”
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THE PSEUDO-SLAVIC REALIA IN PSEUDO-ETHNIC FANTASY: THE ISSUES OF TRANSLATION INTO THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE by Nadezhda V. Rabkina

“…To date, the traditional fantasy genre that has its roots in European folklore is transforming as authors seek new, fresh mythological foundations and exotic forms of narration. …”
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