"It all started with the doubt (perhaps exaggerated) that the Gods do not know how to talk". The author presents the situation and tendencies in contemporary mythological research. The article starts out from the mythos-logos antithesis and from the twofold conception of the myth as both a fabricated and a sacred story. The allopersonages as characters of different names, who function as marker...

A real myth of a hero, moves toward a lion and a subversive dragon, is a story of soul evolution. The hero myth shows a stage in which a child is separated from dependency in order to reach to personal integrity. According to Rumi, permanent presence of journey precursors shows that there is no way to escape and not only heroes but also all humans experience passing from thresholds in order to ...

Reflecting the dangers of irresponsible science and technology, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein quickly became a mythic story that still feels fresh and relevant in the twenty-first century. The unique framework of the Frankenstein myth has permeated the public discourse about science and knowledge, creating various misconceptions around and negative expectations for scientists and for scientific e...

This study examines the news media coverage of the 1999 Columbine school shootings, as a component of a noted crime myth of the juvenile superpredator. Thematic content analysis was conducted on 683 articles selected from print and broadcast media, revealing four themes of coverage, including the identification and description of the victims, details of victims’ deaths, coverage of memorial ser...

It may not seem reasonable to look for diseases in myths. Although myths have their own principles, they do not necessarily follow the rules of the real world. Therefore, diseases and pathologies of myths like diseases of hero or their traumas during battles are not so genuine. However, the major point is that according to some theories of mythology (1), myths can root in realities and if we ar...

C.S. Lewis believed that Jesus Christ embodied, in historical fact, a mythic pattern of dying and rising exemplified by deities such as Balder Osiris. Taken from James Frazer's Golden Bough, an enormously influential work early anthropological scholarship, the idea generalized ‘dying rising’ motif is now substantially outmoded. Resting specifically on resemblance between story Christ, not (unli...

Gods and heroes of Greek myths have been of interest to psychoanalysts, who find them as symbols of human intrapsychic life, evolution, and conflicts. Many of these gods and heroes, like Oedipus, Electra, Eros, and Narcissus, have had their names given to psychological situations, conflicts, and diseases. Freud picked the myth of Narcissus as a symbol of a self-absorbed person whose libido is i...