Le contexte alchimique des Noces Chymiques by Didier Kahn

“…The myth of Christian Rosencreutz developed at a time when the number of fictitious authors of alchemical treatises, self-styled disciples or precursors of Paracelsus, increased considerably. …”
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Barn Owl (Tyto alba) by Jason M. Martin, Richard N. Raid, Lyn C. Branch

“…Their ghostly appearance and blood-curdling shriek have led to their incorporation into folklore and myth and have earned these birds a variety of nicknames, including "ghost owl" and "monkey-faced owl." …”
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Les cours d’eau dans les incantations chamaniques des Indiens yucuna (Amazonie colombienne) by Laurent Fontaine

“…They recall, explain and situate the origin of every natural element referring to some particular extract of history or myth, considered with its consequences in everyday life. …”
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Coloniality and tourism: the fabric of identities and alterities in India by Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud

“…This contribution seeks, on the one hand, to question the processes by which tourism in India has become a political instrument, facilitating the rewriting the national myth by erasing the stigma of colonization while reifying the West, and on the other hand, to show, from intermediate situations – the Indian diaspora and Indian domestic tourism - how hybridizations are forged in which post- and decolonial paradigms act on identities.…”
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El discurso sobre la identidad mestiza en la historiografía finisecular mexicana de la arquitectura by Johanna Lozoya

“…This text points out that the myth of the mestizo identity in architecture can´t support itself nowadays, when multiple identitary forms expressing throughout the nation shows that though it was imagined homogeneous in the XXth century, Mexico is considerably multicultural.…”
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De l’os, de l’ennemi et du divin. Réflexions sur quelques pratiques funéraires tupi-guarani by Olivier Allard

“…By underlining the importance of bone in Tupi-Guarani myth and ritual, this article seeks to demonstrate that bone is not a neutral substance, and that the different ways of treating it allow us to distinguish two major axes structuring various funerary rites. …”
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Our Illnesses by Anath Ariel de Vidas

“…Examining the Teenek nosology and particularly the divination methods that the Teenek use to locate the origin of their particular misfortune, allows us not only to understand their etiology but also to analyze its symbolic structure. Through the myth of origin, this structure relates the concepts of disease prevalent in this group to their regional conflictual multiethnic context. …”
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Les femmes et le confit politique nord-irlandais à l’écran : images d’une population exclue ou victime dans le film Maeve ? by Cécile Bazin

“…As the film explores the myth of Mother Ireland, this article analyses the images that tackle the political question linking it to the gendered nature of power and historical discourse.…”
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ИМЕНА-МИФОЛОГЕМЫ В БЕЛОРУССКИХ МАСС-МЕДИА: ПРАГМАСТИЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ by Ирина Ратникова

“…Vilna is one of the most important Belarusian mythologems which represents the myth about the Golden Age of Belarus. The author does research into the Vilna concept in the field of a cognitive semantic paradigm. …”
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Миф Левиафанa в творчестве Андрея Звягинцева (на материале фильмa „Левиафан”) by Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak

“…The article focuses on an interpretation of Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film Leviathan in the context of the Leviathan myth. The film was inspired by the Book of Job and the philosophical treatise called Leviathan or The Matter, Form and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil written by Thomas Hobbes in 17th century. …”
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Le pays normand. Paysages et peuplement (IXe-XIIIe siècles) by Mathieu Arnoux, Christophe Maneuvrier

“…The devastation and depopulation of the Norman countryside taking place when Rollo settled in Rouen probably originate from a historiographic myth created by Dudo of Saint-Quentin to servethe history of the recent Norman dynasty. …”
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¿Primos o hermanos? Nacionalismo, integralismo y humanismo cristiano en la Argentina de los años sesenta by José A. Zanca

“…In the 1930’s, that rejection was expressed by the «myth of the Catholic nation». Furthermore, these interpretations consider Council Vatican II as a «rearrangement» rather than as a radical change. …”
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Révolution tunisienne et Internet : le rôle des médias sociaux by Romain Lecomte

“…While we attempt to analyze how the use of Internet may have been a catalyst specifically for the protest movement born in Sidi Bouzid, our article warns against certain popular analyzes promoting the myth of the “e-revolution” and social networks as the trigger, while at the same time ignoring where and how the revolution was born and led for the most part. …”
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Finlande-Québec au temps d’une décennie PISA : regards croisés de deux systèmes éducatifs by Guy Pelletier

“…The paper uses a number of examples to illustrate the myth or problematic of looking at only the results of PISA scores as a means to value or valorise a system of education.…”
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Images du corps nikkei à São Paulo by Helena Prado

“…By considering a few common expressions from popular language and by examining recorded discourse, it aims to analyse what is presented as obvious: the body designated as “Japanese” in Brazil, one that is foreign, different and excluded from the body representations at work in the “national myth”.It will therefore be a matter of identifying the phenotypical markers at play, and showing what directly follows from them, namely a series of representations “naturally” associated with the Nikkei ethnicity, having to do with norms of aesthetics and social behaviour, with moral and intellectual values, and with collective and individual practices expected from Japanese Brazilians.…”
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Eko-teologia jako forma chrześcijańskiej diakonii wobec stworzenia by Cezary Naumowicz

“…The concept of a triune God helps to dispel the myth of our unilateral relationship of dominion over nature. …”
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Des-reterritorialização: percursos possíveisdo romance afro-brasileiro recente by Paulo C. Thomaz

“…To Haesbaert, the immanent aspect ofmultiterritoriality in individual lives and in different human groups has beendepreciated by the “myth” of deterritorialization. Instead of a simplisticuprooting dispossession, there would be a permanent process of, a spatiallydiscontinuous and highly complex repossession. …”
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Barn Owl (Tyto alba) by Jason M. Martin, Richard N. Raid, Lyn C. Branch

“…Their ghostly appearance and blood-curdling shriek have led to their incorporation into folklore and myth and have earned these birds a variety of nicknames, including "ghost owl" and "monkey-faced owl." …”
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Historical Policy of Kazakhstan in the Space of Russia’s Southern Border: Identity, Discourse, Commemoration Using the Example of the Astrakhan Region by Mikhail A. Volkhonskiy, Akhmet A. Yarlykapov

“…Currently, this myth is being actively replicated within the framework of the historical policy pursued by the Kazakh authorities.…”
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Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen by Salvatore D’Onofrio

“…This sort of pantomime, little known among other Indians of the lowlands, is related to myth by virtue of the canonical manner in which it unfolds and of the connexions it establishes with other aspects of Ayoreo culture: body painting, hunting, shamanic powers, ritual activities. …”
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