In The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell recounts a curious phenomenon of animal behavior. Newly hatched chickens, bits of eggshells still clinging to their tails, will dart for cover when a hawk flies overhead; yet they remain unaffected by other birds. Furthermore, a wooden model of a hawk, drawn forward along a wire above their coop, will send them scurrying (if the model is pulled backward, how...

In Greek archaic literature and philosophy, Eros, the god of love desire, has numerous origin stories, which lead to different understandings his nature. These extend both orthodox heterodox texts within economic canon, whose definitions interest rearticulate mythological subtext desire. What might have happened if Western world had not discarded passions in its quest for material progress?

the old, rich and popular tradition of verbal story telling by narrators has been prevalent among all indo-europeans, especially aryans who were living in the iranian plateau, in the eastern parts of iran and khorasan. this tradition of oral narration has kept fiction and also historical events and has transmitted them to us. the writer of this article tries to evaluate this tradition and analy...

ABSTRACT This article discusses the importance of storytelling and plotting in Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006). novel follows a father his son who, after devastating global disaster, move through an ashen landscape desperate search for food, while attempting to evade roaming bands cannibals. In this meaningless postcatastrophic world, insists on creating meaning himself as has been created mi...

In this cover image, mythological stories are used to depict the content of article number 2200336 by Xintong Xu, Shuangchen Ruan, and co-workers. Sun Wukong is represent a scientific researcher. The six-sided cauldron represents hexagonal prism-shaped aluminophosphate (AFI) crystal, while mouth pore channel AFI crystal. Through mouth, selenium molecular chains introduced sky beam light. Sunlig...

The article focuses on Greek and Latin interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphs its similarity possible relation to the classical art memory (almost lost) methods mnemonics. first part points differences between view script written sources, based mostly mythological stories about origin(s) writing. next briefly explains ancient hieroglyphs, focusing Horapollo’s Hieroglyphica other sources. third ...