Myth Reality Research Articles

Mythical Realities in Nepali Writings Mahabharata Mythic in Krishna Dharabasi’s Radha

This paper analyses Krishna Dharabasi’s Radha and zooms mythic realities of Krishna-Radha relationships. It is based on the Archeological study method of the Hindu scripture written on metallic plates and kept inside the iron box that was found in Braja. The plates can be unburied historical proofs of the buried memories. Written documents historicize Krishna-Radha relationships and Krishna’s Rasa Lila on the one hand and Kunti-Madri’s maternity on the other hand. Documents also historicize the love stories of Krishna on the one hand and war stories of Kauravas and Pandavas on the other hand, and so this paper is prepared in a comparative method. This paper makes a comparative study with an archaeological investigation in some mythical places of Eastern Nepal: Bhadrapur- Mechi and Keechak Badh Jhapa in connection to the mythic realities of Pandu’s wives Kunti and Madri’s experiences and myth makings. Claudio Guillen, Marshall Sahlins, and Susan Bassnett’s ideas are applied for theoretical support. The objective of this paper is to excavate on mythical realities of Radha-Krishna love, war, and renunciation. The finding of this paper is that Dharabasi’s Radha interlinks with conceptual knowledge of Ramayana and Mahabharata that can be studied from mythical and historical perspectives, too.

Mythical Realities: Challenging the Government/Nonprofit Nexus in Community Services Procurement

Mythical Realities: Challenging the Government/Nonprofit Nexus in Community Services Procurement

«LANGUAGE» OF RELIGION IN DIGITAL GAMES: THE EXAMPLE OF VISUAL NOVELS

The article presents theoretical and methodological analysis of the problem of studying the “language” of religion. The place and role of the “language” of religion in the conditions of globalization is defined. The status and role of computer video games in the cultural modern world with the presence of religious overtones in them is outlined. Within the framework of systematic study of this problem the variety of modern theories of different scientists concerning the definition of the “language” of religion was considered. The main attention in the work the author emphasizes the description of the prominent role of religion in the game culture, which influences the peculiarities of understanding people’s worldview. Not only characteristic concepts are highlighted, but also a historical sketch of the visual novel as a new branch of digital games is considered. The article proposes such methods as semiotic, comparative analysis of game characters with supernatural abilities presented in visual novels. The images of gods, god-man and other supernatural beings in virtual computer games were considered. The representative mythical reality was analyzed on the example of several stories of visual novels.

Wieloznaczna semantyka czerni w „Metamorfozach” Owidiusza

The subject of this study is how and in what scope Ovid uses the terms of blackness (ater, niger, pullus, piceus, fuscus) occurring in Latin in his Metamorphoses. Particular attention is paid to those places in the poem where this blackness enhances the dynamics of the situations described by the poet, gaining at the same time a specific axiological qualification, and also justifies through its presence the conventional use of the colour as an expression of mourning. This non-typical usage of the terms mentioned above leads to the conclusion that in this aspect of his poetic creativity, Ovid depicts the mythical reality he presents in an absolutely non-imitative manner, but rather full of at times surprising expressionistic colour associations.The subject of this study is how and in what scope Ovid uses the terms of blackness (ater, niger, pullus, piceus, fuscus) occurring in Latin in his Metamorphoses. Particular attention is paid to those places in the poem where this blackness enhances the dynamics of the situations described by the poet, gaining at the same time a specific axiological qualification, and also justifies through its presence the conventional use of the colour as an expression of mourning. This non-typical usage of the terms mentioned above leads to the conclusion that in this aspect of his poetic creativity, Ovid depicts the mythical reality he presents in an absolutely non-imitative manner, but rather full of at times surprising expressionistic colour associations.

Cardiopulmonary bypass and cancer dissemination and progression: myth reality, enigma, puzzle?

Cardiopulmonary bypass and cancer dissemination and progression: myth reality, enigma, puzzle?

Առասպել, բանաստեղծություն, առասպել

The choice of title is a reference to the abbreviated content of the book. The importance of the title in the creative process is emphasized by P. Sevak and A. Ayvazyan said. The title of the book is a sign that allows you to reduce the content of the book to one focus in the process of reading. The collection can be seen as a metaphor for transliteration. This is connected, on the one hand, with the name of the collection /«The Door of Mher»/, known in our epic as Agravavakar, and on the other hand, with the esoteric system of Eastern philosophy. The rose, again a ritual, meditative image, “on the other side” of life is expressed in the real image of the “tree”, in other words, metaphysics becomes nature, the image arises as an image. This nickname given to being is governed by the poetic «Me», which overcomes «side by side», «otherworldly» states of life, «through the labyrinth of ignorance» and «through the cracks of the word of being». Knowledge” and is established as racial memory by measuring indecision and exploration. In almost every poem-context, having a deep perspective of the mythical reality of our epic, the poem is constantly trying to overcome the temptation to become a myth, but Mher remains the “secret” hero of the poem, which Beyleryan tries to carefully hide is observed in the ancient mysteries, then in the tragedies of Dionysus, who has many in common with our Mher as his deity. In other words, when the Primordial dies in ordinary consciousness, a tragedy is born․

Modernity from Elsewhere: Psychoanalysis, Ethnography, and Speculative Horizons of Self-Assertion

Modernity from Elsewhere: Psychoanalysis, Ethnography, and Speculative Horizons of Self-Assertion

ПРОБЛЕМА МОЖЛИВОСТІ ДІАЛОГУ І ВЗАЄМОРОЗУМІННЯ З «РУССКИМ МИРОМ»

In the article, the Author analyzes the problem of "deafness" and "blindness" in relation to the realities of the Russian-Ukrainian war. These phenomena are characteristic of everyone involved in the "Russian world", regardless of origin, including ethnic Ukrainians. They cannot be explained only by powerful propaganda. The author believes that it should be about the inability of individual "functionalists" of the "Russian world" to think independently, to understand the positions of the bearers of other worldview paradigms, to fully communicate. The Internet contains tens of thousands of examples that clearly confirm the validity of the theses outlined above. Telephone conversations of Russian soldiers between themselves and with their loved ones, which were intercepted, testify to the same. Adequate assessment of the situation is often characteristic of representatives of the Russian so-called "opposition elite". The results of sociological polls, regularly conducted by the independent "Levada Center", also testify to the inability of the absolute majority of the population of Russia to understand reality, replacing such an understanding with the reproduction of the dogmas of the "Russian world". The author believes that this is explained primarily by the nature of the existing social order in Russia. This system is often called authoritarian or "extreme version of authoritarianism". From this, it is concluded that it is enough to achieve a change of power, the dismantling of the repressive apparatus and the cessation of propaganda, so that Russia moves on the path to democracy. Such a theoretical position seems wrong, since it should be about totalitarianism. Authoritarianism is a political regime, and totalitarianism is a comprehensive socio-political order, and this concept is much broader than a regime. The main difference here is that a totalitarian mythological reality has established itself in Russia, which cannot be rationally deconstructed and abolished by some political act; it can only be destroyed together with the Russian/Soviet Empire. The bulk of Russians are completely immersed in this mythical reality, which is both their external and internal world. Therefore, not only a full-fledged dialogue, but even any communication is impossible, neither with Putin personally, nor with the "collective Putin", which makes up the majority of the population of Russia. What Ukraine and the world need is not the preservation of imperial Russia, even in a simplified version, but its final and complete dismantling.

„Pal/ palid” ca epitet metaforic în poezia lui Eminescu / „Pale/ pallid” as metaphorical epithet in Eminescu’s poetry

The epithets pal “pale” and palid “pallid” could have been linked here by a conjunction. Instead, they are placed at the same level (pal/ palid) because of their semantic identity in Eminescu’s lyrics. Their importance has been already highlighted by several critics, and especially by I. Negoițescu, who referred to the epithets of pallor as a symbol, and systematically returned to them. By simply identifying these epithets with death or the myth of death, with the angelic purity, but also with the purity of the demon, within expressions such as androginie difuză a morții “diffuse androgyny of death” and demonul palorii “the demon of pallor”, there is no poetic symbol, but only a vague image. Associating these adjectives with characters such as the Poet, the Monarch, the Sleep and the Demiurge, usually at an intuitive level, does not reveal the intended meaning. These epithets appear in Eminescu’s poetry with non-metaphorical meaning as well, that is with denotative or connotative meaning. Instead, the metaphorical meaning belongs to the extra-existential world. The strong occurrence of these adjectives in Mortua est! and the debates around them within this poem since its first publication focused the attention not only to the final version of the text but also to its variants. Pal/ palid does not have a unique meaning in this poem, but we may assume that the connotative meaning is not transcended in any of its versions, including the last one. As a metaphorical epithet, pal/ palid is associated with the lyrical creation as act and as purpose, as well as with the pure ideal which is situated outside the dichotomy of life–death (being–non-being), either as a reality of the poetic thought or as a mythical reality. The poems in which pal/ palid carries this metaphorical meaning are: Venere și Madonă/ Venus and Madonna, Epigonii/ The Epigons, Luceafărul/ The evening star, Povestea magului călător în stele/ The story of the magician who travels to the stars, Mureșanu. Tablou dramatic/ Mureșanu. Dramatic tableau and Memento mori. The metaphorical ʻextra-existential’ meaning differs from any concept of overcoming the antagonism being–non-being which is highly represented in Eminescu’s poetry. It supposes placement outside this antagonism.

"Phanariotic manuscript" by Doiny Rushty - Balkan education novel

The aim of the study. Roman Doiny Rush "Fanariotic Manuscript" - The Balkan Education Romance "offers to explore the history of Joanis Millikpu, which becomes the history of Leuna and the history of Kiroz, changing the complex features of one destiny. Bucharest is a place and a central reality that has the power of metamorphosis, a city of mixture of the Balkan nations, with some French and Russian influences. Methods of this study. Roman Fanariotsky manuscript by Romanian author Doyne Rushti analyzed through the prism of literary onomastics and symbolic synesthesia: 1) the intra-textual aspect of the wider context of the name, the role of the name in the process of redefinition should be introduced into general and a universal tradition, as well as a ritual tradition concerning the history of Romanian literature; 2) urban legends in the Fanarite Bucharest, cosmopolites, created through a combination of feelings, facilitating the exit from historical time and entry into the mythical reality. Conclusion. The legend of the name exists in the Romanian rural environment, and according to her, the name changes through religious and magical rites, or rather because the ethnologists call the rites of the transition, changing destiny, disposing of illness, death, evil spirits, threatening the lives of people, etc., showing great confidence in the power of the word, which can become a reality. At the heart of the novel is a document found in the archive, and Doyne Rushti captures the magic Balkan world in all its intricacies at the end of the XVIII century. The name is also able to display fragments of history on the verge between legend and reality. Hence anthroponomy, a means of humanizing the city. One of them the most famous urban legends is the story of Bucharest women enriched with the name of Giorgom. A well-chosen name can bring a person a glory, and destroy it.

ВЕРБАЛІЗАЦІЯ МІФОЛОГЕМИ «САД» У МОВІ ПОЕЗІЇ ОЛЕКСІЯ ДОВГОГО

The article analyzes peculiarities of interpretation of the myth «garden» of Oleksii Dovhiy’s lyrical hero and the nature of its lingual expression. During the research it was found out that within the anthropocentric approach in linguistics special attention was paid to the study of the peculiarities of lingual reflection of the worldview by the individual. Based on a review of linguistic research on the subject, it was concluded that the linguistic worldview is a way of reflecting reality in the human mind through the lens of the lingual and cultural-national features of a particular lingual collective. The problems of structure of the concept were investigated within the defined problems. The peculiarities of correlation of concept components are found out. During the analysis of concept it is proved that «mythologema» is a kind of continuation of the concept and is presented in the literature at the level of associations with mythical realities, allusions and reminiscences. A study of Oleksii Dovhiy’s poetic language showed that the myth «garden» is one of the most spread in the author’s language. Having studied the linguistic peculiarities of the expression of this myth and its correlative images, we have proved that it is interpreted by Oleksii Dovhiy’s lyrical hero as a certain otherworldly, as an ideal locus, as well as a harmoniously ordered universe.

Kindly Terror and Civic Fury: Eumenides and the Language of Myth

Abstract In the conclusion of Aeschylus's Oresteia, Athena declares that deinon—typically translated “fear” or “terror”—should be held at the heart of the polis for all time. This move is allegorized by the enshrining of the Erinyes (or Furies) in the Athenian Acropolis. This has been interpreted variously as a charter for political absolutism, a justification of the repression of matrilineal relationships, or as an expression of the often paradoxical manifestation of divinity in Greek tragedy. This article argues that deinon is an example of Aeschylus's use of a mythical mode of thought that rational discourse cannot easily access. To elaborate the meaning of Athena's deinon, I examine its shifting role in the Oresteia, alongside that of the Erinyes, and find modern analogues in the ideas of the sublime and the uncanny. In these concepts, post-Enlightenment reason theorizes paradoxes that were inherent properties of mythical reality to the archaic mind. By exploring the correspondences between these ancient and modern terms, I demonstrate how Aeschylus unites mythical and political thought in a performance of myth that expresses and accommodates the logical anomalies of human experience.

Game Spirituality: How Games Tell Us More than We Might Think

While we often see games as less serious or at least less transcendental than religion there is reason to believe that games can evoke similarly meaningful narratives that allow us to learn a great deal about ourselves and our world. And games do so often using the same symbolic and metaphorical mechanisms that generate meaning in religious experience. In this paper, I explore some of the ways in which game myths—the myths created from and through games—generate meaning in our lives. People experience myths in games very similarly to how they might in religion. I first explain what myth means in contemporary literature and then show how the very make up of games opens them to a mythical reality. I highlight two ways in particular. I will argue that the inefficiencies within games promote a deep engagement with the world, and this gratuitous nature provides a system for creating myths and actualizing mythical potential.

Emulación decorativa y cerámicas ancestrales. Posibles fuentes de inspiración de las alfareras meseteñas de la Edad del Bronce

This paper explores decorative resemblances between Neolithic and Chalcolithic ceramics and pottery in the Cogotas i style –Later Bronze Age–. A diachronic approach from the Early Neolithic allows tracking a series of recurring ornamental motifs and techniques throughout later prehistory: comparable geometric themes, the deployment of stab-and-drag –Boquique– and excision techniques and smearing of white inlays. In order to account for such analogies, a suite of options is assessed: mere coincidence, independent innovation, trans-cultural endurance of craftwork procedures. The most likely hypothesis considers a revival of such technological decisions by potters in the second millennium bc; they did so fully aware of their alien character. Such pottery features were used to elaborate a symbolic code displayed on vessels, whose transmission and faithful reproduction were of crucial importance. Ancient potsherds were used as prototypes by potters, and might have been understood as part of ancestral, esoteric or mythical realities. Such cultural preference is consistent with the habitual handling of relics and anachronistic or exotic things. The lifestyles of these people facilitated their encountering of remains from their past, either removing soil (to cultivate and pit-digging) on the same settings occupied by their predecessors, or visiting and altering old megaliths and tumuli, caves and ditched enclosures.

Mythical Homes and Violent Realities: Reading Gujarat in M. G. Vassanji's A Place Within

In this essay, I read M. G. Vassanji's travel-memoir A Place Within: Rediscovering India, as a diasporic traveler's personal journey and search for the self, and as a political critique of postcolonial India. I argue that as Vassanji, a diasporic traveler removed from his original homeland by many generations and geographies, searches for his roots seeking affirmation of his mythical memory, and as he tries to come to terms with the differences between the imagined and the real Gujarat, he represents the angst of the diasporic subject. Finally, this paper explores how Vassanji uses the travelogue not only as a way of recording his cultural memory, but as a means of challenging simplified visions of India's past.

Światy mityczne, światy logiczne. Odmienne wizje w twórczości Studia Ghibli

The following essay outlines the differences in Studio Ghibli’s creative strategies by pointing out not only constructions of the various universes, but also other topics and ideas on the structure and plot of the texts. The author distinguishes the two worlds in Ghibli films, falling into either of the two categories: a mythical reality or a logical reality. The first category relates to the miraculous events and the wide variety of vivid characters; these are mainly found in the works of the studio’s founder, Hayao Miyazaki. The logical realities, on the other hand, are characteristic of the works of Isao Takahata, Miyazaki’s best friend. Takahata creates stories populated with everyday, down-to-earth characters, set up in a more or less contemporary Japanese reality.

Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern MelodyGraulich and Nicolas S.Witschi, Editors. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi, Editors. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.Deadwood, South Dakota, occupies a space both real and imagined in the history of the American West. It was founded illegally as a mining camp during the 1876 gold rush in the Black Hills, which had been granted to the Lakota in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. Present-day Deadwood, with its well-maintained historical district and prestigious place on the National Register of Historic Places, is far removed from the rough-and-tumble frontier camp of the 1870s. Yet, it is precisely the haunting presence of the Old West and the notoriety of some of its illustrious inhabitants, in particular Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok, that make Deadwood's mythical reality overwhelm it as historical metaphor.The 2004-2006 HBO television series, Deadwood, feeds off the frontier mythology and history surrounding Deadwood but steers clear of the romanticism and patriotic fervor of the classic western. Deadwood is a prime example of a postwestern in the sense that it reassesses and in some ways parodies the generic conventions and restrictions of conventional cinematic and literary western narratives. From the beginning of the series, Deadwood raised eyebrows with graphic depiction of sex and violence. It quickly gained a strong following of viewers attracted to its complex characters, heavy dialogue brimming with profanity and philosophy, and its revision of the conventional frontier narrative.The latest installment in the University of Nebraska Press's Literature and the Postwestern series, Dirty Words in Deadwood, explores the television series not only as cinematic and literary narrative but also offers a well-rounded contextualization of its genesis and colorful creator David Milch. Milch has worked as a teacher, assisted Cleanth Brooks, R. W. B. Lewis, and Robert Penn Warren in writing college textbooks on literature, and published poetry and fiction. But he is best known for his contributions to television and has received several Emmy Awards for his work on Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue. Dirty Words in Deadwood opens with an interview with Milch by Nathaniel Lewis, the son of R.W. B. Lewis. In response to Lewis's prompts, Milch elaborates on his vision of collective identity-we're all members of one body (15)-and the spectral presence of the past in American literature. …

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Historical metaphors and mythical realities in Spike Lee’s <it>When the Levees Broke</it>

In many of Spike Lee’s films, jazz is a medium of cultural transformation, enabling African-Americans and other ethnic and racial groups to understand the cultural legacies on which their collective identity depends, by reconciling them for better or worse to their common history as citizens of the United States. The recurrent theme in all of Lee’s films is the cultural consequences of excluding African-Americans from that history, especially given their enormous influence on it, and the losses and distortions that necessary follow from such exclusions. In When the Levees Broke (2006), his four-part television documentary about the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, Lee transforms this theme into a powerful story of individual and collective cultural rebirth through jazz. In this essay, I want to offer some initial thoughts on how Lee connects this story with the dominant historical metaphors and mythical realities of nationhood in the United States, especially those that identify jazz with the themes of displacement, homelessness and homecoming.

IBook – a New Medium?

EXTENDED ABSTRACT:On January 19th 2012 Apple launched iBooks®2 for iPad® - a new application for downloading digital content to the iPad - and the new software (iBooks Author®) which allows creating and publishing digital content using the .iba digital format and all-new iTunes® application offering access to a variety of digitised educational content. Our aim was to test the attractiveness of the new Apple releases and the effect of a relatively easy access to the world market of digital content on the promotion of Slovenian cultural heritage. We added three books to the iTunes digital collection which might be of interest to the general public: a re-edition of a scientific monograph by Andrej Pleterski: Mythical Reality of the Carintian Dukes' Stones (Mitska stvarnost knežjega kamna) in Slovenian and German version and a non-fiction iBook by Benjamin Štular: Ljubljana in the Middle Ages. Archaeological Research (Srednjeveška Ljubljana. Arheološke raziskave). The digital version of the Andrej Pleterski's book was chosen for the actuality of the topic in Slovenia and Austria. People and politicians in Carinthia were annoyed by the book contents as it was published by the Regional Museum in Klagenfurt in December 2011. While the science in this book is sound it has been abused to meet the current needs of some of the Carinthian politicians. The incident was polemically reflected in the main Slovenian newspapers, too. The non-fiction iBook was selected because of the attractiveness of the theme, besides a lot of multimedia content had already been created and could be easily published to Apple's iBookstore. All three iBooks were posted to iTunes® less than three weeks after the release of the iBooks Author application to create digital content. We wish to present our experience with the applicability of the new medium, users' feedback and access statistics. Guidelines for Apple licenses are presented. The applicability of the new medium and its impact on the popularisation of the Slovenian cultural heritage was evaluated on the basis of the usage statistics in the first two months.

WHAT IS “MYTHIC REALITY”?

Abstract. The topic of the March 2011 symposium in Zygon is “The Mythic Reality of the Autonomous Individual.” Yet few of the contributors even discuss “mythic reality.” Of the ones who do, most cavalierly use “myth” dismissively, as simply a false belief. Rather than reconciling myth with reality, they oppose myth to reality. Their view of myth is by no means unfamiliar or unwarranted, but they need to recognize other views of myth and to defend their own. Above all, they need to appreciate the grip that any belief aptly labelled myth has—a grip that holds at least as much for a false belief as for a true one.