Current understanding of carotid artery disease begins in Ancient Greece. The term carotid is derived from the Ancient Greek karos (κάρος), meaning to stupefy. This first description is ascribed to Hippocrates (ca. 460–370 BC) but defined in the later accounts of Rufus of Ephesus (fl. ca. AD 100), who stated that the term was used because superficial compression of the vessels was known to indu...

There exists today, unfortunately, many therapists who graduated from the “Procrustean School of Psychotherapy” (named after the mythological giant who “accommodated” his captives to the size of his beds). (Hoffman, 1992) They come from all orientations, persuasions and disciplines, and have firm beliefs in their theory of human nature, of the causes of psychopathology and the means to ameliora...

We introduce Claude Lévi Strauss’ canonical formula (CF), an attempt to rigorously formalise the general narrative structure of myth. This formula utilises the Klein group as its basis, but a recent work draws attention to its natural quaternion form, which opens up the possibility that it may require a quantum inspired interpretation. We present the CF in a form that can be understood by a non...

When in search of an explanation for the nature of philosophy, a good starting point is to inquire as to its origins. As is commonly known, Occidental philosophy originated in Ancient Greece as a substitute for mythological and religious explanations. Instead of accepting explanations of the foundations and origins of reality based on the anthropomorphic projections of mythology, the early Gree...

Life and death, generation and corruption are obviously universal experiences of mankind. Man had to deal with these phenomena and search for psychological accommodation to the objective facts. Man, however, has tremendous capacity for imagination and wonder -so it is easy to let our imagination err in the gray zone, especially when it seeks to satisfy our deepest desires. Thus the notions of t...

this paper is an invitation to accept and to apply the senses in the field of ethnographic research of art. i tried to embed the aesthetic dimension of handmade fabrics woven by lümə-dərə community– one of tərəkəmə clans in northwest iran- in their sensual world and make an approach toward understanding it. therefore, i have made a bridge between anthropology of aesthetics and the anthropology ...

Hundreds of years ago, sailors were terrified by the Kraken, a dreadful sea monster capable of sinking ships and with a taste for human flesh. Today we know the legends of this monster were based on sightings of giant squids. This animal belongs to the genus Architeuthis and was the subject of many scientific studies. Despite its enormous size (up to 18m), the giant squid is astoundingly elusiv...