Mythology of Tamils in Mullaipattu

Beri-Beri in Tamils

I notice also in the same (May) number of the Indian Medical Gazette some editorial remarks alluding to the suggestion of Ross that the cause might be arsenic. Some in this country, where tin is so plentiful, have thought that metal might be the cause. I think that the insolubility of the ore of tin may exclude that idea. With regard to the suggestion of Ross that it might be arsenic, I think t...

The Philosophy of Mythology

Beri-Beri among Tamils in Rangoon

Southern India. Roughly the patients thus classed as Hindus came from two districts, Chittagong and Southern India, but chiefly from the latter place. Those who came from Southern India were nearly all Tamils, and so much so was this the case that I had to choose Tamilspeaking Hospital Assistants to place in such charge of the wards whore these patients were kept for treatment in order that the...

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 ...

Context and Mythology

In this thesis, I will survey some philosophically representative approaches to the problem of the relationship between context and meaning. Starting from G.W.F. Hegel’s discussion of the meaninglessness of indexical terms in the Phenomenology of Spirit, I will investigate Gottlob Frege’s notion of context and the legacy of this notion in the formal sciences of language, showing that this appro...