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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Cosmogony"”.
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The language of cosmogony: literary experimentalism and metaphor in Plato’s Timaeus and Augustine’s Confessions.
Literary critical discussions of cosmogony usually examine ideas and assumptions about authorship and poetic creation which are formed in light of inherited models of the world’s creation. Far less attention has been paid to actual representations of the world’s creation, the literary theory and …
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Commedia
… is a poetry manuscript focused on etymology and cosmogony viewed through stock characters from traditional Commedia dell'arte improvisational theater. The text focuses on the characters ability to dream a new world into reality, pulling from the traditions of several ancient creation myths …
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A Diachronic Analysis of the Use of Scripture in the Variant Versions of the Apocryphon of John
… is nonetheless the basis for the Apocryphon's cosmogony and anthropogony. It is argued that the Apocryphon's uneven treatment of the Bible is the result of a development of the text in the midst of a dispute with other early catholics.</p>
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Traditional Gods and Civic Religion in Plato’s Later Dialogues
… I discuss the place of traditional gods in the cosmogony of the Timaeus. I argue that the dialogue preserves only a few elements of the conventional religious language and, in general, challenges the beliefs based on the religious tradition. Nonetheless, the dialogue follows the tradition …
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Pae ora, policy and Māori leadership
… and kaupapa Māori theories: Māori cosmogony, Polynesian and Māori pūrakau and te reo Māori specific to the indigenous people of Aotearoa, and Eastern and Western Polynesia.
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Land, People, Space, and Place: Constructing a Decolonized Reparative Understanding of the Biblical Creation Myth Through Dialogue Between the Hebrew Bible and Haudenosaunee Creation Stories
… primarily because it was rooted in the biblical cosmogony (Gen 1-3), which, too, they considered superior to that of the Haudenosaunee. Thus, the author set out to investigate the settlers’ claims about the biblical creation myths (Gen 1:1-2:4a and Gen 2:4b-3:24) and to construct a decolonized, …
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The Sidereal Visions of Kant, Humboldt, and Einstein: An Introduction to German Cosmological Prose
… the still current "nebular hypothesis" of cosmogony, suggested systematic replication on a galactic scale, and also predicted planets beyond Saturn. In the mid-nineteenth century, Alexander von Humboldt synthesized contemporary knowledge of the natural world in a consciously aesthetic …
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Goethe's Urfaust and the Enlightenment: Gottsched, Welling, and the "Turn to Magic"
… (1652-1727) cabbalistic work he finds a cosmogony rich with images, images that he borrows and transforms in creating his own new Faust mythology. In Welling, Goethe finds the counterpole to Gottsched, whose image-rich language provides Goethe with inspiration to respond to the poetic …
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Analyse thematique de quelques contes Nkundo-Mongo
… themes within the tales, among which we find cosmogony, magic, customs, initiation, rituals, conflicts between generations, conflict resolution, ect. The fourth chapter deals with the structure of the NKUNDO-MONGO tales. The work by Denise Paulme on the morphology of African tales was our …
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The Drama Of Collaborative Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Hollywood Film Making-Of Documentaries
… and ritually repeats and re-actualizes the cosmogony. As historic patterns, filmmakers converse in history with filmmaking predecessors, traditional industry practices, and present collaborators. Through their various roles as fans, critics, and memorialists, filmmakers renovate and …
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The Poetics of Geography in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… extend throughout the poem, which begins with cosmogony and ends with poetic immortality underpinned by the spaces of the Roman empire. In Ovid’s verses we find expansive views of the oikoumene and detailed journeys through its spaces; we find place names from the mythological to the …
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Empedoclean Elegy: Love, Strife and the Four Elements in Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti
… Ovid has the god Janus describe an Empedoclean cosmogony that encourages us to interpret subsequent features of the poem against the background of an Empedoclean cosmos: in this light, the centrality in the poem of Mars and Venus (i.e. the months of March and April) and its interest in the …
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The content and stable isotopic composition of carbon in spherical micrometeorites
… micrometeorites are of fundemental importance to cosmogony, because they may provide the only means, at present, to directly study cometary material, and sample a far less biased cross section of the asteroid belt than conventional meteorites.<br></br><br></br>A static gas source mass spectrometer …
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Nietzsche's eternal recurrence of the same : the effect of logic abridgement, contradictions and inconsistencies
… I will illustrate that the recurrence doctrine's cosmogony is unworkable and that if it were workable, it would negate self-reflection on the grounds that selfreflection cannot find its cause in eternal recurrence of the same. Thus, when the cosmology is shown to be impossible, any expected …
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The Tongan traditional history Tala-E-Fonua : a vernacular ecology-centred historico-cultural concept
… past historically. In chapter two, the Tongan cosmogony and cosmology are explicated in terms of the Tongan creation myth, ta la tu pu ’a , where the local and regional origin of the concept is further traced in terms of the enforced divine power transference amongst the three principal …
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The Tongan traditional history Tala-E-Fonua : a vernacular ecology-centred historico-cultural concept
… past historically. In chapter two, the Tongan cosmogony and cosmology are explicated in terms of the Tongan creation myth, ta la tu pu ’a , where the local and regional origin of the concept is further traced in terms of the enforced divine power transference amongst the three principal …
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Reconstituting a World: Constructing a Cube
The following is an exploration into the composition and construction of a marine research laboratory situated on a remote sea cliff off the coast of Norway. The settlement is composed as a model of the world. Located at the chaotic boundary of earth, sea and sky, the <br />construction acts …
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Realizing the Human Unity with the Universe by way of Letting Go and Emptying: Martin Heidegger and the Zhuangzi at the Crossroads of Being and Dao
The scholarship that surrounds the relation or comparability of Martin Heidegger’s and Asian thought asks questions of comparability and influence, but the body of literature that has been produced over the last several decades has failed to fully engage Heideggerian and any particular Asian …
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From the Harmony of the Spheres to Spherical Harmonics : The Potential of Wave-Based Morphogenetic Processes for Musical and Architectural Composition
Architecture is to space what music is to time: this brief sentence summarizes the deep, intriguing and intimate relationship that architecture and music have maintained all along history, especially in the Western world. It also reflects the cosmological roots of this connection, which translates …
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