Insects in the Choctaw Emergence Mythology

Spawning salmon and the phenology of emergence in stream insects.

Phenological dynamics are controlled by environmental factors, disturbance regimes and species interactions that alter growth or mortality risk. Ecosystem engineers can be a key source of disturbance, yet their effects on the phenologies of co-occurring organisms are virtually unexplored. We investigated how the abundance of a dominant ecosystem engineer, spawning sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus n...

The Plant in the Mythology

Plants played an important role in the mythology of Baltic tribes. The plants are mentioned in the sources of religion and mythology, mythological sagas, fairytales, proverbs, believes and magical rituals. In the written sources the worshiping of natural objects as well as phenomenons (sky-lights, earth, fire, water, thunder, plants, animals and even rocks) are often mentioned. The worshipings ...

The Philosophy of Mythology

The Mythology of Game Theory

Non-cooperative game theory is at its heart a theory of cognition, specifically a theory of how decisions are made. Game theory's leverage is that we can design different payoffs, settings, player arrays, action possibilities, and information structures, and that these differences lead to different strategies, outcomes, and equilibria. It is well-known that, in experimental settings, people do ...

the creation of adam in manichaean mythology

kephalaia, counts to the important sources of manichaean. it is written in coptic by the christians of north africa, which have converted to this faith. mani is called in this book “the apostle” and sometimes “the enlightener”. each chapter resembles to christ sermons. the disciple asks a question, and he gets the answer from the apostle. this is what each chapter is normally based on. creation...