Mythology

Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. The main characters in myths are usually gods, demigods, or supernatural humans. Stories of everyday human beings, although often of leaders of some type, are usually contained in legends, as opposed to myths. Myths are often endorsed by rulers and priests or priestesses and are closely linked to religion or spirituality. Many societies group their myths, legends, and history together, considering myths and legends to be true accounts of their remote past. In particular, creation myths take …

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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 2 April 2024 English

While governments and authorities look for technical solutions to water resources management, they can often overlook local knowledge and cultural aspects.

forms of Hydra in Greek mythology or Yamatano-orochi in Japanese mythology.3 Japan’s agricultural land heads and eight tails is mentioned in Japanese mythology. It lived in the upper reaches of the Hinokawa


EU: European Union · 27 March 2024 English

by documents from archaeology, palaeontology, mythology, numismatics, linguistics and written and oral


Reconciliation Australia · 26 March 2024 English

Coming to terms with the past? Identifying barriers and enablers to truth-telling and strategies to promote historical acceptance Anne Maree Payne and Heidi Norman Indigenous Land and Justice Research Group …

exodus and exile in white Australian historical mythology. Journal of Australian Studies, 23(61), p. 3.  exodus and exile in white Australian historical mythology, p. 3. 83 Attwood, B. (2017). Denial in a Settler


Nordic Co-operation | Nordic Council & Nordic Council of Ministers · 26 March 2024 English

This chapter introduces rurality-TV as a genre, and we discuss how public service media, through this genre, contributes to symbolically resolving tensions between the rural and the urban, and we …

culture. A more recent contribution to this mythology is a television genre that has gained popularity


IIC: India International Centre · 23 March 2024 English

The speakers in the programme, ‘Civil Services and the Indian Constitution’, discussed the need of civil services, its role and place in the Indian Constitution, and the interaction between the …

performers during Bhaona–dance dramas based on Hindu mythology. These masks or mukha represent an intricate art


UN: The United Nations · 13 March 2024 English

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live a largely traditional life through their mythology and rituals; (c) traditional Wunna Nyiyaparli


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 12 March 2024 English

Tectonic shifts in the cultural world occur slowly, and are difficult to observe in real time. Still, it’s now possible to conclude that the protracted “post-Soviet” period of Russian literature …

and specific, with their own customs, history, mythology, and toponymy. Post-Soviet prose tended to be


RAND Corporation · 7 March 2024 English

This Perspective examines the contributions that Finland and Sweden can make to NATO, having joined in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It examines the path each …

strong national will to fight (building on the mythology around ‘sisu’) to the forefront of what it means


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 March 2024 English

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into …

poems, narratives, and characters of ancient mythology, not only entertained, but also provided moral Motifs catalogue Berezkin (2015) folklore and mythology catalog, introduced to economics by Michalopoulos


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 5 March 2024 English

to the amount of cops on the street, were drawn from the city’s rapidly City dwellers’ relationship to the to the cost of rent, policy makes and growing unhoused population. …

to Los inconsistent with the neighbourhood’s mythology. Angeles. High notes: “It was no coincidence that


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