The poet Nikolai Kliuev (1884–1937) has fascinated and provoked to polemics successive generations of Russian readers, attracting to this day treatments that range from the hagiographical to the denunciatory. In his own lifetime he elicited strikingly diverse reactions from those who came into contact with him or who read him. In many cases, those reactions, both hostile and favourable, sprang ...

In all cultures, human hair and hairdo have been a powerful metaphor. Tracing back the importance and significance of human hair to the dawn of civilization on the Indian subcontinent, we find that all the Vedic gods are depicted as having uncut hair in mythological stories as well as in legendary pictures. The same is true of the Hindu avatars, and the epic heroes of the Ramayana, and the Maha...

Writers of stories for both print and screen have a deeply ingrained tendency to construct stories for an audience to experience the finished work in a fixed linear fashion. Although there are starting to be some examples of fixed non-linear multimedia works, viewing a cinematic story must always be linear, as a linear sequence of pictures and sounds conveying some meaning. However, it should b...

The term "psyche" and its derivatives - including "Psychology" and "Psychiatry" - are rooted in classical philosophy and in mythology. Over the centuries, psyche has been the subject of discourse and contemplation, and of fable; it has also come to signify, in entomology, the order of Lepidoptera. In the current surge of research on brain and mind, there is a gradual transition from the psyche ...

В результате семантического анализа материалов селькупского фольклора, верований, обрядов, изучения пищевых предпочтений и запретов было выявлено несколько древних религиозных идей, сделавших пищу самым действенным магическим средством на селькупском мифологическом поле. Среди них представления о съедении умершего человека, пересекающего границу земного потустороннего миров, животным-предком, п...

The Woven Stories is a tool for writing stories collaboratively. In order to represent the written stories adaptively, we need to construct description about the content of the stories and the relative information between di erent stories. The formal presentation of Woven Stories is called StoryML and it can be used for adaptive content representation of the stories.