The Beliefs, Myths, and Reality Surrounding the Word Hema (Blood) from Homer to the Present by John Meletis, Kostas Konstantopoulos

“…All ancient nations hinged their beliefs about hema (blood) on their religious dogmas as related to mythology or the origins of religion. The Hellenes (Greeks) especially have always known hema as the well-known red fluid of the human body. …”
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« Spirit of the dead, rise up! […] and claim your story ». Représentation de l’esclavage et esthétique de la résistance dans Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Sankofa (1993) was his first important critical and commercial success. The film used Akan mythology—in particular the sankofa bird symbolizing the need for every person to turn to the past in order to face their future—to broach the issue of resistance to oppression. …”
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“I’m Just a Cowboy”: Transnational Identities of the Borderlands in Tommy Lee Jones’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. by Matthew Carter

“…As a problematic in-between space of racial antagonisms, liminal identities, and violence, the borderlands of the American Southwest prove fertile grounds for scrutinising Anglo-America’s national frontier mythology and, therefore, its own sense of history and cultural identity. …”
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Paradoxurile istoricului în Hronicul Vechimei a romano-moldo-vlahilor by Gabriel Mihăilescu

“…On the other hand, we attempted to emphasize an opposite movement against historical criticism, i.e. promoting traditional mythical structures or establishing a new historical mythology of humanistic nature due to which Dimitrie Cantemir is now considered one of the main forerunners of modern nationalism.…”
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Berta Gleizer Ribeiro e as artes das vidas amazônicas by Lúcia Hussak van Velthem, Bianca Luiza Freire de Castro França, José Ribamar Bessa Freire

“…The reflections that follow focus on the approaches to which the anthropologist paid special attention, such as those connected to the study of everyday objects, to Amazonian aesthetics, to the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the upper Rio Negro, and also to ecological issues. …”
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Escrevendo-se na cidade: ExueoGuia afetivoda periferia, de Marcus Vinicius Faustini by Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

“…With this performativemovement, the author contrasts the common tendency to divide the urban spacein center x periphery, city x slum, hill x asphalt. Using the mythology of Afro-Brazilian religions, I analyze how the narrator/actor ofGuia Afetivo da Periferiaincorporates features of the Orixá Exú and consubstantiates the cityphenomenologically.…”
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« Jules Crevaux, l’explorateur aux pieds nus ». Un mythe géographique amazonien by Emmanuel Lézy

“…Nevertheless, the carefull observation of the feet of an amazonian explorer, Jules Crevaux (1847-1882), reveals structures which are common to the covered territory and to a modern mythology. This structures give an unexpected confirmation of the efficiency of the anthropologist’s analyses.…”
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Strike And Power(Lessness) Of The Union by Zoran Stojiljković

“…The aim of this paper is to identify, on the basis of an analysis of the causes, the course and effects of strikes in Serbia over the last three decades, the mechanisms by which society and trade unions have moved from self-management mythology to the defense of whatever wages and “decent, dignified work” as the maximum goal. …”
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La sémantique des noms : taxinomie djihadiste et imaginaire médiéval by Enki Baptiste

“…Jihadist materials, by linking to mythologized past of the call of the Prophet Muḥammad and the first caliphs, exude a medievalist universe imbued with a cyclical reading of the history of conquest, in which jihadists see themselves as the heirs of the Prophet’s companions. …”
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Criminological principles of transitional justice for Ukraine: zones of criminogenic risks by Y. V. Orlov, L. V. Dundych

“…Accent has been placed on the criminogenic significance of competing victimhood, the mythology of postmemory, the desynchronized elements of criminal justice and criminological policy. …”
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Communique Issued at the End of the First International Conference on Community, Trade and Religion in Coastal Yorubaland and Western Niger Delta, Held at Adeyemi College of Educat... by Yoruba Studies Review

“…Over a period of three days, many papers were presented, covering various topics and issues on mythologies, oral traditions, religion, making sense of the Yoruba littoral, economy and intergroup relations in the Gulf of Guinea during the 18th and 19th centuries, trade on the north eastern bank of the Lagos lagoon, history, religion and community formation, moral traditions of the Yoruba and non-Yoruba speaking groups, and many more. …”
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Le « marché aux putains » : économies sexuelles et dynamiques spatiales du Palais-Royal dans le Paris révolutionnaire by Clyde Plumauzille

“…The Palais-Royal enjoys a special place in the urban mythology of the Paris Galant, capital of pleasure and debauchery for European elites in the eighteenth-century. …”
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Remains. On Survivance in Translation and Literary Criticism by Agnieszka Pantuchowicz

“…What I attempt to bring to the fore in this paper are the complexities and intricacies involved in linguistic and artistic mythologies of presenting and articulating the world as simply present and living, at the cost of discursively coffining what remains.…”
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The beginning of image development by the society in the interpretation of A.S. Pushkin's works during his lifetime by D.V. Tumanov

“…The genesis of the mythologization of the biography and creative heritage of A.S. …”
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Od kulturowego pojmowania przestrzeni ku rozważaniom o wieczności. Dyskurs przestrzenny w powieści Brisbane Jewgienija Wodołazkina by Monika Sidor

“…Successive parts of the research are devoted to lieux de mémoire in autobiographical fiction, cultural understanding of the space of the home and places which traditionally create the image of Kiev and the individual mythology of this city. Space perceived in the way modified by culture is a certain frame in which both the hero of Vodolazkin lives and a receiver reads the novel. …”
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De la nuit et de l’obscurité : une étude icono-épigraphique maya by Cédric Becquey

“…In this article, we will see that this approach allows us to get a sense of the great complexity of this concept, which can only be understood by diving into Maya cosmovision and mythology. In fact, it is particularly in its relation with the underworld or the primordial night that this “night” acquires a central place in the power legitimisation strategies of Maya elites.…”
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"Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi by Michel Dufour

“…Minimalist and conceptual, the Yeatsian mountain is reduced to archetypal forms related to the geometry described in A Vision, Yeats’s metaphysical treatise. Rooted in Irish mythology, and rising into a spiritualist ethereal world, the mountain conjoins different symbolic strata, allowing an intellectual and spiritual ascent. …”
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« Never Meet Your Heroes ». Généalogie cinématographique et matrice science-fictionnelle dans The Boys by Thomas Carrier-Lafleur, Baptiste Creps

“…The starting point of this reflection lies in the paradigmatic shift embodied by The Boys, following the cinema of Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 2009 and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016), which consists in proposing a realistic rereading of the mythologies of the superhero, whose traditional model is thus strongly criticized, even deconstructed. …”
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La foule révolutionnaire, l’imaginaire du complot et la violence fondatrice : aux origines de la nation française (1789) by Philippe Münch

“…The conspiracy imaginations actually sustained a dual link with popular violence by constituting, on one hand, an impetus for political action and, on the other hand, a ground for the justification and mythologizing of the storming. This process of legitimization would later provide the founding elements of the first French national narrative.…”
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(Recovering) China’s Urban Rivers as Public Space by Kelly Shannon, Chen Yiyong

“…This article focuses on the revered role rivers in China once held – in cartography, history, mythology, festivals, cities, and everyday life. It reviews and summarizes ‘hydraulic civilization’, taking cognizance of feng shui as it does so. …”
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