Through careful analysis of young patients exhibiting radiosensitivity and inherited SCID of B and T lymphocytes, Despina Moshous and colleagues discovered a new DNA repair gene two years ago and named it after the Greek goddess Artemis, a guardian of young children and small animals (1). The same group has recently analyzed several patients with hypomorphic Artemis mutations, and their results...

The relationship between the Greek goddess Athena and her father Zeus, together with the competitive hostility she displays towards other females, is presented as illustrating some previously neglected aspects of triangular developmental conflicts in the little girl. Literature on "the Oedipus complex in the female" is reviewed and discussed. The mythological early histories of both Athena and ...

Finding the mechanism that will make us live a long and healthy life is the goal of medical research. How appropriate that Klotho, the Greek goddess of life, is involved in vascular disease. Klotho is one of the Greek Moirai, the goddesses of fate who controlled the ultimate destiny of man: death. Klotho spins the thread of life, Lakhesis measured the thread of life, and Atropos cut the thread ...

Introduction Witchcraft ideation is common in Nepal, among many third world countries and many popular healers practise there, including the jhankri or spirit medium, the tantrik or healer practised in tantrism and the deuta, a healer possessed by a mother goddess, Hartimata 1. Spirit possession is a recognised phenomenon in Nepal and carries no connotations of psychiatric disease. Actual or pr...

Finding the mechanism that will make us live a long and healthy life is the goal of medical research. How appropriate that Klotho, the Greek goddess of life, is involved in vascular disease. Klotho is one of the Greek Moirai, the goddesses of fate who controlled the ultimate destiny of man: death. Klotho spins the thread of life, Lakhesis measured the thread of life, and Atropos cut the thread ...

J. B. Harley notes that 'maps as an impersonal type of knowledge tend to "desocialize" the territory they represent; they foster the notion of a socially empty space'. Focusing on twentieth-century India, this paper considers an alternate tradition of mapping territory in which the nation is cartographically presented to its subject-citizens not as 'empty social space', but as 'Mother India', t...

ABSTRACT To reduce the risks associated with production of gladiolus flowers in climatic conditions southwestern Paraná, Brazil, this study characterized growth, development, and floral stem quality plants cultivated under different-colored shade nets mulching four growing seasons. The cultivar ‘White Goddess’ was grown beds without soil. Three individually stained black, silver red all 35% sha...

fairy tales are stories in which metaphysical, paranormal and mysterious events take place and there is no exact time and place; everything is spiritual. the lorestanian story of “daughter of daal” is a tale of the “mythical birth” of a girl from an egg and her being raised by daal (phoenix) in the cave of a caucasus-like mountain. daughter of daal is snared by a hireling hellcat’s deceit, but ...