In this paper, I analyse relations between humans and nonhuman entities, including deities and machinery, linking the concepts of dividual persons and substance-codes (Marriott 1976) with transactional networks (Appadurai and Breckenridge 1976) and the ideas of hybrid and limited networks discussed by Strathern (1996). In būta (spirit) rituals in the coastal area of Karnataka, people enter into...

These seven specialized circumventricular structures of the mammalian brain represent windows with individual­ ized structural characteristics permitting intimate contact between blood and cerebrospinal fluid, neurones and spe­ cialized ependyma-glia. These "Seven Windows of the Brain", like the seven lucky deities of Japan, may each have a specific patron of body brain function which they serve.!

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2017.01.012 The first record of hand pollination was in a relief from an Assyrian dynasty, 800 BC, now preserved in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In the relief, shown in Figure 1A, two winged deities gingerly fertilize a date palm tree by using a male flower. Nearly 3,000 years later, pollination has been automated. In this issue of Chem, Chechetka et al. de...

Abstract In this article I argue that the graphic images of gods in divinatory codices are composed signs different semantic values which encode particular properties. All them contribute to creating identity god. However, these elements not only shared by deities, but even differ between representations same Analyzing Xipe Totec, one best-studied deities and oldest Mesoamerica, elaborate a hyp...

Literature helps us to know about a country, people, beliefs, professions and races but it doesn’t give clear idea folklore. Folklore literature is storehouse of what human society has experienced learned. At beginning man lived his life according wish. The only source for him nature they worshipped nature. From that many festivals, beliefs sacrifices are formed. They separated worshipping as m...