Transformation of Space Discourse: from Traditional Society to Postmodern Era by V. A. Shchipkov

“…Space discourse is defined via its societal perception, reflection in mythological systems and some philosophical concepts. …”
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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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A long way to the man (sources, ideals, ideologies) by Alexandr E. Razumov

“…Here we find tangled in one knot various components of mythological, religious, philosophical and scientific thinking.…”
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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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Un enclos funéraire monumental à Langres/Andemantunnum (Haute-Marne) by Yvan Maligorne, Serge Février, Jean-Noël Castorio

“…The latter is formed by arches decorated with mythological reliefs and framed by pilasters supporting a horizontal entablature. …”
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Voir une chenille, dessiner un serpent à plumes. Une relecture analogique de l’hybridité et des êtres imaginaires en Mésoamérique préhispanique by Dimitri Karadimas

“…After going through a review of the perception processes entering in the way the names of species are built in natural languages, we apply these processes to iconographical materials that combines distinct beings – or parts of beings –, this enables us to interpret their occurrences on feather headdresses or as mythological figures.…”
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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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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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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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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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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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Deadwood : la naissance d’une ville by Nathalie Massip

“…Yet, ultimately, it becomes evident that change and progress are not wanted, in Deadwood, and the series, deviating from most of its genre’s predecessors, seems to blur the frontier between savagery and civilization, in an attempt to debunk America’s mythologized past.…”
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Au rendez-vous allemand (2) by Agnès Bouvier

“…Thus, despite the excesses of the “rationalists” and “mythologs”, whose methods he clearly distinguished, Renan considered the German exegesis a progress. …”
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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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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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