Mythology
Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. The main characters in myths are usually gods, demigods, or supernatural humans. Stories of everyday human beings, although often of leaders of some type, are usually contained in legends, as opposed to myths. Myths are often endorsed by rulers and priests or priestesses and are closely linked to religion or spirituality. Many societies group their myths, legends, and history together, considering myths and legends to be true accounts of their remote past. In particular, creation myths take …
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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 5 April 2024 English
In The Cancer Plot, Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman examine the striking presence of cancer in Marvel comics. Engaging comics studies, medical humanities, and graphic medicine, they explore this disease …
seen as the key protagonist in a vast cycle of mythology that has evolved to express and mediate [the] … lematic for upsetting both the paradigm of Norse mythology and Marvel’s long-term story. Indeed, both readers … Thors, for example) with death as part of their mythology: there can be other iterations of a character …
CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 5 March 2024 English
to the amount of cops on the street, were drawn from the city’s rapidly City dwellers’ relationship to the to the cost of rent, policy makes and growing unhoused population. …
to Los inconsistent with the neighbourhood’s mythology. Angeles. High notes: “It was no coincidence that …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 2 March 2024 English
Award-winning author paulo da costa meditates on fatherhood, place, and memory during a trip to his childhood home in Vale de Cambra, Portugal. During an extended stay in his childhood …
still agape from their encoun- ter with living mythology, this time tangible. The shock-induced paralysis …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 27 February 2024 English
Tony Vicar is wrestling against the ordinary patterns his life has fallen into, until dark secrets and a dangerous woman from the past threaten to upend it all.After the devastating …
laugh-out-loud funny. This is quintessential Canadian mythology. — Rob Baker, guitarist of The Tragically Hip …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 14 February 2024 English
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada’s settler colonial …
aside the necessary deconstructions of that mythology, it is important to underscore what scholars …
ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 30 January 2024 English
Add to this the killings of thousands in each of the conflicts in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Yemen; the civil war in Sudan, with at least 9,000 killed and another 5.6 …
historian Stephen Pyne frames it “we are watching mythology become ecology – it’s a slow-motion Ragnarök.”13 …
CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English
One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …
Journal, vol. 9, no. 1: 24. 23 The Hydra of Greek Mythology was “a gigantic water-snake-like monster with … https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hydra-Greek- mythology, accessed 22 May 2023. 24 U.S. Army Special Operations …
IRC: Queen's Industrial Relations Centre · 14 December 2023 English
The Certificate in Organized Crime Prevention Foundations program, offered in partnership by the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department at Queen's University and Queen’s IRC, provides vital knowledge and skills to …
how gangs migrated to cyberspace ■ Delve into mythology, mimetics, and beyond Module 13: Case Study: Organized …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 8 December 2023 English
The development of the Canadian criminal justice system has been central to the dispossession of Indigenous populations and the safeguarding of colonial relations of power. Through the mechanisms of surveillance, …
all her peoples will never be free. Canadian mythology claims (1) that the problems faced by Black people … and polit- ical refugees. Primarily, Canadian mythology on the Underground Railroad rewrites a vicious … impact present life↔death conditions, and US mythology on “the past being the past” falls apart. In the …
Wilson Center Canada · 27 October 2023 English
In a moment where bilateral regulatory mistrust threatens to dismantle many of the financial ties built-up over the last three decades, understanding the mindset of the Chinese regulator becomes all …
Claiming the South China Sea with a New National Mythology: Hainan Island and the South China Sea in China’s … Claiming the South China Sea with a New National Mythology: Hainan Island and the South China Sea in China’s … a scholarly context, to counter this mainland mythology of continuous Chinese dominance in the region … Claiming the South China Sea with a New National Mythology: Hainan Island and the South China Sea in China’s … a scholarly context, to counter this mainland mythology of continuous Chinese dominance in the region …
