Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen by Emmanuel Adeniyi

“…I used metaphysical fatalism as a theoretical model to interrogate prognostications about dispersion of the Yorùbá from their matrix as expressed in their mythology. Being a predestining agent, I examined the role of orí (destiny) within the context of rigid fatalism and its textualisation in Prince Justice’s Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen. …”
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« Excès et pénurie dans Middlemarch : le cas de M. Casaubon » by Sylvie Jougan

“…Thirdly, Casaubon is sadly lacking in mental and intellectual energy : the scholar’s intellect is unable to « digest » the voluminous notes amassed over the years to produce his « Key to all Mythologies », an excessive project if ever there was one. …”
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Visual Vertigo, Phantasmagoric Physiognomies: Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin on the Visual Experience of Architecture by Stefan Koller

“…It shows that Benjamin’s specific contribution to this body of literature is the invention of a secular mythology, with a clear application to architecture in Benjamin’s focus on the ‘boundless interiorisation’ of glass and iron construction. …”
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Digging up Old Stories: How the Soviet Myths of Allied Intervention into the Russian North in 1918–1919 are used in the Context of Russia’s War in Ukraine. The Case of Mudyug Conce... by Natalia Golysheva

“… The mythology of the foreign interference into the Russian civil war goes to the heart of the memory politics in Putin’s Russia today, most recently in connection with the invasion in Ukraine. …”
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Wild Wild West : une série au carrefour des affirmations dans les États-Unis du milieu des années 1960 by Jean Ruhlman

“…The series questions diverse constitutive elements of the mythology of the West, as it undermines the supposed virtues of the pioneering local communities as well as those asserted by the conquest of the West in its final stage after the Civil War. …”
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La possibilité d’une île : la mythologie du Bronx, archipel enchanté, dans trois textes autobiographiques de Jerome Charyn by Sophie Vallas

“…This paper proposes to see Charyn’s nostalgic painting of the Bronx in the 1940s first as a historically documented evocation, but also as a mythologizing enterprise: as the reader follows Charyn from one mythical landmark to the next, he realizes that an imaginary geography, a magical cartography of the Bronx are being drawn before his eyes while a powerful Melvillian intertext puts the final touches to the recollection of an "evilly enchanted ground". …”
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Grotesque and Southern Gothic in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian by Hüseyin Altındiş

“…The counter- narratives complicate any types of subjugation, mythologized history, and refuse to approve the violence that the prevailing power practices against innocent people. …”
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Phenomenon of androgyne as «post-gender»: psychological and philosophical analysis by E. Shishlova

“…The article examines the history and evolution of the phenomenon of androgyne in ancient mythology, medieval religious philosophy, modern philosophy, present-day psychological science and practice. …”
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Le Théâtre de la mort de Tadeusz Kantor : un « gué secret » entre les vivants et les morts by Virginie Lachaise

“…It would be tempting to place the whole Tadeusz Kantor’s theater under the sign of the revenance and haunting, so everything is back : the characters, situations, objects, spaces, words and sounds, almost all returning the autobiographical sphere and the religious history and mythology of Poland, homeland of the artist. In the confined space of its Chamber of memory and imagination, the scene, the artist made a machine to view the past spring to the rhythm of ”heartbeat memory“ Children in tatters, the spectra of the family who do not allow themselves to forget, the scraps of old battles Cricot 2. …”
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Reims/Durocortorum, cité des Rèmes : les principales étapes de la formation urbaine by Robert Neiss, François Berthelot, Jean-Marc Doyen, Philippe Rollet

“…For a long time, Reims’ history only began with Caesar and the Gallic Wars. Despite an ancient mythology claiming an origin as ancient as Rome’s, previous archaeological pieces of evidence weren’t reliable and were mainly ignored. …”
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Clash of Past and Present: Production of Historical and Representational Spaces in Oscar Wilde’s Poetry by Emre Çakar

“…Wilde used characters and places of ancient Greek mythology in his poems and developed a poetic sensitivity that focused on the real places and characters of the city. …”
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CHRISTOPANGANISM: A RELIGION IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE OR A CONTEXTUALIZED CHRISTIANITY IN NIGERIA? by Amos Francis Dike

“…The study discovers that while the early missionaries left their converts battling with African traditional mythology. However, some contemporary Christians/pastors have an approach that can best be described as Christopaganism on order to bridge the gap created by western missionary exploit.Hence, while recognizing the existence of generational curses and magic, some Christian bodiesviews Christopaganismboth as a means of contextualizing Christianity and at the same time finding relevance. …”
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De l’ojibwa au dakota : pour une analyse transformationnelle des langues amérindiennes by Emmanuel Désveaux, Michel de Fornel

“…The aim of this paper is to propose a radical new typological approach to the diversity of Native languages, which is directly inspired by Lévi-Strauss’ Mythologiques and his concept of transformation. As with mythology, the semantical dimension of phenomena prevails. …”
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„... das Unendliche im Endlichen gebären ...“ by Susanne Gödde

“…The following contribution investigates the specific means of signification that Creuzer articulates for the categories ‘symbol’ and ‘myth’ in his Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker (Symbolism and Mythology of the Ancient Peoples). Three processes of signification can be distinguished: 1. the meaning of a myth or mythical figure is constituted by  postulating inter-religious relations, often with recourse to etymological or similar linguistic relations; and a previous truth or dogmatic system is inferred to lie ‘behind’ the narrative and its linguistic interrelations. …”
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METAPHORICAL TERMINOLOGY IN ANCIENT TEXTS OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE: PROBLEMS OF UNDERSTANDING AND TRANSLATION by Qiuhua Sun, Irina S. Karabulatova, Jinna Zou, Chen Kuo

“…The use of methodological holism made it possible to develop a new approach to the texts of traditional Chinese medicine from the standpoint of communication studies and neuropsycholinguistics. The mythologized interpretation of the concepts in the ancient treatises of TCM is associated with the signification of any health problem in the form of an expanded metaphor characterizing the problem as a violation of ‘communication’ in the body-‘state’ between ‘vassals’, ‘individual social groups’ and their ‘leaders’. …”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…By intentionally putting aside the main issues of the novel, the historic war of Carthage, the mythic battle between Tanit and Moloch, great History and mythology, battles and massacres, the focus is on the sentimental adventure, which, as the author well knows, is a must in a historic novel.  …”
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A Fuzzy Logic Technique for the Environmental Impact Assessment of Marine Renewable Energy Power Plants by Pamela Flores, Edgar Mendoza

“…Based on these foundations, we developed both traditional and fuzzy mythologies for EIA. The fuzzy logic methodology approach allows for the incorporation of uncertainties into the assessment process, converting qualitative assessments into quantifiable data and linguistic levels and enhancing decision-making accuracy. …”
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MIRACLES AND THE PERFECTION OF BEING: THE THEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS by Alexis V. Halapsis

“…The space of history acquires the Non-Euclidean properties that determine the specific cultural attitudes as well as part and parcel mythology of the corresponding communities. Originality consists in the approach to the miracle as a psychological need in a religious authority, expressed through the religious and non-religious (scientific) worldviews, which are interconnected by invariant thinking patterns deeply inside. …”
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Politics Under Electronic Simultaneity by V. P. Terin

“…The article also deals with the information overload and pattern recognition problem understood in managerial terms as well as mythologization and demythologization processes as they are necessitated by the electronic media coverage worldwide.…”
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Landschaftsgedächtnis und Geschlechterdiskurse in ausgewählten Werken von Elsa Bernstein und Maria Waser by Monika Mańczyk-Krygiel

“…Symbolic drama by Elsa Bernstein (pseudonym Ernst Rosmer, 1866–1949) Mutter Maria Totengedicht in fünf Wandlungen (1900) deals with the subject of the supplanting of old folk beliefs by the Christian religion, as well as the violent clash of the male and female worlds, symbolized here by the figures of alpine mythology as literary topoi (hunter and mountain goddess). …”
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