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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Supernatural Beings"”.
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Angels and Sub-Divine Supernatural Beings: Their Characteristics, Function, and Relationship to God and Humanity in Deuteronomy-Kings
… to determine the characteristics and roles of supernatural sub-divine beings within these books. Then this data is compared with the angelology of the Second Temple period in order to identify the similarities and the extent of the differences between them.</p> <p>Deuteronomy contains …
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Evidence for the Use of Bufo marinus in the Olmec Shamanic Tool Kit
… on Olmec transformational images has been supernatural beings, such as the jaguar. I suggest characteristics of these supernatural entities have been misinterpreted and are actually based on the Bufo marinus. Furthermore, I propose these characteristics imply the use of bufotinen in order …
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A Study of the Supernatural in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Gothic Literature
… (YA), and specifically to the portrayal of the supernatural in twenty-first-century YA Gothic literature. This thesis fills this gap through close analysis of a selection of YA Gothic novels and by drawing from a variety of interdisciplinary sources, including mythology, folklore, fairy tales, …
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The Duality of Textiles
… been tied to the use of magic, as well as to supernatural beings and the idea of fate. As a result, textiles reflect both the more concrete, mundane aspects of Viking culture, those that are left in archaeological finds, as well as the elements of mythology and magic more difficult to know and …
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Maintaining Untraditional Virginity
Ovid's Metamorphoses contains a world full of supernatural beings, violent confrontations, and scandalous relationships. Many myths contain stories of sexual pursuits, which often involve a god lusting after a young virgin. Those tales establish the fragility of virginity within the poem, …
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
Supernatural Visitation, broadly defined as the narratively bounded appearance of an otherworldly personage (or Visitant) to a human recipient (or Visited), represents a highly widespread and cross-generic literary motif throughout the Late Middle Ages. Although previous studies have considered the …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: the Nat Images of Myanmar
Supernatural beings known as ‘nats’ are widely represented in Myanmar art. Until now they have been a neglected area of research, overshadowed by an academic focus on the country’s Buddhist art and architecture. The research for this thesis analyses why the nats are depicted in particular ways, how …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: the Nat Images of Myanmar
Supernatural beings known as ‘nats’ are widely represented in Myanmar art. Until now they have been a neglected area of research, overshadowed by an academic focus on the country’s Buddhist art and architecture. The research for this thesis analyses why the nats are depicted in particular ways, how …
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Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Contemporary Ceramic Art Practice
… protecting inhabitants, invoking a plethora of supernatural beings from across cultures to assist in this endeavour. Research focuses on a material investigation of these artefacts through the realisation of a large-scale art installation In the House of Ephra and Bahmanduch. Comprising a …
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'How can his word be trusted?': speaker and authority in Old Norse wisdom poetry
… aspects of human life, the natural world and the supernatural realms. But its application depended heavily on the way in which it was passed on and interpreted. This dissertation examines the ways that these poems reflect on the interpretation and value of their own contents as a function of the …
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Communication with the Other World in Romantic Poetry
… poetry is populated – or rather haunted – by supernatural beings coming into contact and often conversing with humans. In doing so, earthly and unearthly interlocutors are faced with the pressing problem of how to communicate across the seemingly unbridgeable distance between their …