Distinguishing between myth and science is subtle, for both seek to understand the things around us. The characteristic style of mythic thinking is to place special emphasis on a selective conjecture, based typically on the initial observation or recognition of a phenomenon, which is thereafter given privileged status over alternate interpretations. Concepts in geoscience are quite commonly myt...

“naive imagination is like a dark glass that prevent the shining lights entering the heart, but when is ripe enough become a clear glass that points those lights.” (ghazali, the niche of lights, p.73) iranian philosopher and educator, abu hamid ghazali (1058-1111 a.d.) is the author of more than seventy books and essays on philosophy, education, mysticism, ethics, jurisprudence and dialectica...

This paper proposes a journey through some of the many novels written by Honoré de Balzac, through the mythic constitution of his world, his epic, which summons up the same recurrent circle of figures: his “human comedy” will offer surprising insights for a better understanding of the crimes of the powerful.

Study of the varied metaphorical levels of the Book of Mormon continues to yield new insights into the message and meaning of that book. Several prominent typological readings of aspects of the Book of Mormon have been published, but despite calls for such an effort, little inquiry into its possible archetypal levels, or what has been called “the mythic dimension” of the book, has yet been unde...

Yamashita’s use of mythic verism in Tropic Orange and a reimagined doppelgänger trope I Hotel depicts the ir/real nature taxonomy identity Asian America other minority groups being constituted beyond mainstream or conventional understanding idea US nation-state as built upon discursive technologies amnesia misinterpellation subject history its Other.

myths show the layers of human being's collective unconsciousness and include a  nations' symbolic and mysterious conceptions. banugoshasbnameh is a mythic verse book including mythic functions. in banugoshasbnameh, banugoshasb is a warring and heroic archetype. her functions remind the glory of   women's role in agricultural era, the era which is famed for its matriarchy and in ...