Праздник Дуаньу считается одним из трёх больших традиционных праздников китайского народа. История праздника насчитывает более 2500 лет. В 2009 г. праздник вошёл в список нематериального культурного наследия ЮНЕСКО. Традиции и обычаи включают состязание гребле на драконьих лодках, плетение пятицветных браслетов, ароматные мешочки от злых духов болезней, развешивание над входной дверью стенах ве...

As part of the Darwin celebrations in 2009, the Natural History Museum in London unveiled TREE, the first contemporary artwork to win a permanent place in the Museum. While the artist claimed that the inspiration for TREE came from Darwin's famous notebook sketch of branching evolution, sometimes referred to as his "tree of life" drawing, this article emphasises the apparent incongruity between...

one of the most important tekyes in iran and one of the most important islamic buildings in kermanshah province is the mo’aven-ol molk tekyeh. this building is located in historical context (barzeh damagh district) and related to the late qajar period. based on the present situation, the space of this tekye has been formed of four parts: courtyard entrance, hoseiniyeh, zainabiyeh and abbasiyeh....

The paper presents a review of advancements and problems geroscience, fledgling interdisciplinary area in biomedical research on ageing the life expectancy man. author provides historical, religious, literary, mythological, scientific, socio-psychological foundations premise conventional present-day assumptions about human long healthy life. A dramatic increase longevity socio-economic activity...

BACKGROUND It is well known how often psychiatric patients report religious experiences. These are especially frequent in schizophrenic and epileptic patients as the subject of their delusions. The question we pose is: are there differences between this kind of religious experiences and those we find in religious texts or in the mythological tradition? RESULTS An overview on famous mythologic...

Hadis/Sünnet malzemesi farklı açılardan çalışmalara konu edilmektedir. Bunların bir veçhesini de kültür odaklı etütler oluşturmaktadır. Teknik hadisçiliği gözetmekle beraber, onun dışında noktaya odaklanan bu yaklaşımlar, hadisin içtimaî etkisini irdelemektedir. Bu çalışma, uydurma hadislerdeki mitolojik unsurları mezkûr yöntemle ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. Kur’an ve sahih sünnet/hadis, çalışman...

The names of lands and waters, the people are a mirror culture, customs, beliefs,worldview certain people. Among them, anthroponyms valuable heritage in study history language, culture nation. Literary main branch anthropo-nymics that requires important research. Especially among medieval Turkic inscriptions have survived to present day, there characters both literature. article dealswith role ...