the domain of the study of myths and its evaluation in literary criticism has always been in the process of development. however, myth critics sometimes put theme, symbol, and motive into one structure so that what is considered as a theme in one case can considered as a myth, in another. nevertheless, there is a vast difference between these words, atlthough there is no consensus among the cri...

Myth 1: Tobacco is only an issue for affluent people and affluent countries. Fact: Within individual countries, tobacco consumption and tobacco-related disease burdens are generally greatest among the poor. Smoking is declining among males in most high-income countries. In contrast, it is increasing in males in most lowand middle-income countries and in women worldwide. In China and Russia, smo...

Posthumanism is a myth. This does not mean to say that it constitutes a narrative devoid of any foundation, inspired by mere fantasy, far from it. The myth, as shown by Ries, Eliade and Lévi Strauss on several occasions, is based on something real and true, and appeals to conceptual structures that keep it away from a mere scientific report: having had to do with the essence of things, it does ...

this article aims to show that the recent story of zahhak is in fact a re-modeling of the creation myth. this theory is proved through the comparison of the structural elements of the zoroastrian myth of creation with the story of zahhak from the shāhnāma. for this purpose, initially, a summary of the creation myth is presented in three parts. then, it is concluded that the triple division of z...

BACKGROUND Nylon teeth myth is a belief of associating infant illnesses with bulges on infants' alveolus that mark the positions of underlying developing teeth and that it is necessary to treat the condition mainly by traditional healers to prevent infant death. The traditional treatment often leads to serious complications that may lead to infant death. Although the government instituted educa...

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...