A blend is typically conceived as a systematic integration of conceptual spaces by a single cognitive agent for a particular pragmatic purpose. We consider here an interesting class of ‘macro’ blends that involve multiple cognitive agents, each of which contribute different spaces to the integration. Mythology is one such ‘macro’ type of blend, since rich mythic pantheons such as that of Hellen...

At a time when superstition and deities were thought to be responsible for health and disease, Hippocrates of Kos emerged as a rational thinker assigning disease to natural causes. His insights, which principally arose from what may be considered almost compulsive examination and comparison, formed the basis of Hippocratic Medicine. There are still unresolved questions regarding the authenticit...

I this paper, the author underlines that epigraphic material and monuments mentioning ancient cults as patrons of seafaring and seafarers in Istria – which would correspond to numerous coastal settlements and ports, villas and landing places – are scarce. It is assumed that the supreme Roman sea deity Neptune was worshipped in the temple on the capitolium in Poreč, and in the residential mariti...

Many tendencies in social perceivers’ judgments about individuals and groups can be integrated in terms of the premise that perceivers rely on implicit theories of agency acquired from cultural traditions. Whereas American culture primarily conceptualizes agency as a property of individual persons, other cultures conceptualize agency primarily in terms of collectives such as groups or nonhuman ...

Spirituality" has often been framed in social science research as an alternative to organized "religion," implicitly or explicitly extending theoretical arguments about the privatization of religion. This article uses in-depth qualitative data from a religiously-diverse U.S. sample to argue that this either-or distinction not only fails to capture the empirical reality of American religion, but...

see how the fate of the goddess had evolved following the eradication of her raison d’etre. Attendants at the shrine informed me that she continues to function, but as the goddess of chickenpox. In Bengali, the word for smallpox is also used for the spring season—boshonto, pronounced “bawshontaw”—an association that arises from the seasonality of smallpox epidemics in Bengal prior to the eradic...

Jaguars carry deep cultural and spiritual significance throughout the Americas, from sports mascots to their associations with Indigenous deities veneration as a vulnerable charismatic megafauna. Though thought be extinct in US for much of twentieth century, they maintain small but powerful presence along US/México border region. The continued viability these jaguar populations is severely thre...

The article deals with the representation of popular religiosity in work artists Jorge Hidalgo Pimentel and José Emilio Leyva Azze. From engraving, painting, drawing sculpture, both have recreated deities, various symbolic elements, orality, among other aspects that are part social imaginary Cuba. text chooses representative works stages which assume theme greater permanence within their work. ...

As India faced multiple waves of the pandemic, religious responses arose to accommodate and make sense situation. In face uncertainty, disease death, people turn not just towards medical sciences but also religion. The emergence a new Hindu goddess, Corona Mātā/Coronavirus Mardhinī encapsulates people’s fear, faith, devotion. Although goddess is new, tradition goddesses ancient. Indian Subconti...

The spirit-writing (fuluan 扶鸞 or fuji 扶乩) movement was a response to modern crises in the domain of Chinese popular religion. From nineteenth century, cults sprang up throughout China and became national religious trend. These were centered around moral reform promoted through aimed reorient traditional values. This article focuses on how conceptualized as jie 劫 by means spirit-writing, expound...