The Myth of Autonomy

The Position of Myth in Frazer’s Anthropological Theory

George James Frazer (1854-1941), the spiritual father of myth-ritual school, was bred up in the British tradition of empiricism. Believing in the evolutionary process of culture, Frazer mainly focused his attention on explaining such epistemic forms of thought as magic, religion and science. Accordingly, while interpreting the processes through which magic leads to religion and finally evolves ...

The Role of Myth in Art During the Millennia: A critique of Nature in Ancient Art, Marzieh Torajie

The Seven Deadly Myths of "Autonomous Systems"

The Seven Deadly Myths of " Autonomous Systems " department, 1 is a recent US Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force Report on " The Role of Autonomy in DoD Systems. " This report affords an opportunity to examine the concept of autonomous systems in light of the new DSB fi ndings. This theme will continue in a future column, in which we'll outline a constructive approach to design autonomous c...

Psychological Analysis of Kiumarth Myth in the Light of the Personality Psychology of Jung

Mythology allocated a large part, fundamental and effectively to the human mind. The knowledge of mythology in fact recognizes the important infrastructure of ideas, culture and civilization. One of the most common ways to study mythology is to implement psychological ideas in mythology. The result is not only a better understanding of mythology, but also a better understanding of human psyche ...

Place of Prophet Jonah in the collection of Mahmoud Farshchian's works With Joseph Campbell's "Monomyth" theory approach

Abstract   The term "myth" today has a variety of histories, theories and critiques, and has been addressed from various perspectives. "Myth" is a word that is derived from the Latin word historiography (historia), the knowledge gained by the research. The word itself is derived from the Greek historical "histor" meaning "wise man". In general, you can count on myths from three perspectives. ...

Rites of Nakhl-Bardari of Mount Sefid’s Shrines, based on the Myth of Daughter’s Absence

The annual ritual of Nakhl Bardari in the Mount Sefid’s Shrines in the village of Wash involves rich mythical elements. The mythical axis of the ritual is the absence of a number of religious saints in the shrines of olia-allah and Ka’beh Koochak of Mount Sefid, which has a fundamental resemblance to the theme of the “Myth of Daughter’s Absence” in the Iranian plateau. The myth associated with ...