The stories we tell ourselves about who we are make us who we are. The stories we tell ourselves about our relationship to the natural world define how we interact with our environment. The modern environmental story is one of separation, of human exceptionalism -- and has resulted in breatht...
underestimated. Modern language, industry, arts and culture all demonstrate the impact of Greek mythology in today \'s world. For example, most people who have no formal knowledge of Greek mythology still know that Hercules was a strongman and that Venus (the Roma 希腊神话‘对现代社会的s冲击...
Mythology in the Modern Novel 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 41 作者:White,J John 摘要: Acknowledgments Quotations from the following works appear with the kind permission of the publishers: From A World Elsewhere by John Bowen Copyright © 1965 by John Bowen Reprinted by permission of Faber...
Ymir- (Norse mythology) the primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world: the sea from his blood; the earth from his flesh; the mountains from his bones; the sky from his skull Brunhild,Brunnhilde,Brynhild- a Valkyrie or a queen in the Nibelun...
In modern English, hydra or hydra-headed can describe a difficult or multifarious situation. The name hydra has been assigned to a genus of invertebrate freshwater animals having a circlet of 4 to 25 tentacles on one end of its tubelike body.The...
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A great many modern myths attempt to paint the world in dramatic colors or find hidden meanings in random events. Once they have appeared in print a few times, such myths begin to seem like facts to some people. "The curse of King Tutankhamen's tomb," for example, was a fiction coined...
In a small European village, a young girl named Kicsi observes how a town is forced into the modern world and forced to see the hatred in the world. A strange magician, by the name of Voros comes to town. Kicsi is fascinated by this man, a man who claims to be much older than he...
And above is a young man who isn’t afraid of her, whose eyes linger not with fear, but with an understanding of who she is beneath the poison. Soraya thought she knew her place in the world, but when her choices lead to consequences she never imagined, she begins to question who ...
Made popular with the Book of the Dead and a thousand cheesy Curse of the Mummy movies, Ancient Egypt still holds its fascination in the modern world. In this electronic internet age, the Egyptian government should really consider renaming the place E-gypt. The language barrier can be a litt...