The narration about the embracing of Islamic Creed by non-Muslims is often an essential episode in many Malay chronicles. In «Tale Merong Mahavangsa» (Chronicles Kedah kingdom), this a separate episode. This kind "framed story", with dramatis personae such as Sheikh Abdullah Yemeni and his fellow traveller antagonist Iblis, chief evil spirits. Before Sheikh’s eyes, unfolds series episodes where...

Many animal species, including some social hymenoptera, use the visual system for navigation. Although the insect compound eyes have been well studied, less is known about the second visual system in some insects, the ocelli. Here we demonstrate navigational functions of the ocelli in the visually guided Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti. These ants are known to rely on both visual landma...

This article examines the role of language as a key metaphor and medium occult sociality among contemporary Western astrologers. I argue that ‘symbolic language’ attributed to celestial objects patterns informs everyday speech acts reinforces shared commitments authority astrological tradition, in relative absence conventional structures belief belonging. At same time, flexibility versatility h...

We present the first high-resolution maps of Rayleigh behavior in clear and cloudy sky conditions measured by full-sky imaging polarimetry at the wavelengths of 650 nm (red), 550 nm (green), and 450 nm (blue) versus the solar elevation angle thetas. Our maps display those celestial areas at which the deviation deltaalpha = /alphameas - alphaRyleigh/ is below the threshold alphathres = 5 degrees...