Religious people talk about things that cannot be seen, stories that cannot be verified, and beings and forces beyond the ordinary. Perhaps their gods are truly at work, or perhaps in human nature there is an impulse to proclaim religious knowledge. If so, it would have to have arisen by natural selection. It is hard to imagine how natural selection could have produced such an impulse. There is...

The objective of this paper is to automatically annotate images of gods and animals in decorations on classical Greek vases. Such images often require expert knowledge in labelling. We start from a large dataset of images of vases with associated brief text descriptions. We develop a weakly supervised learning approach to solve the correspondence problem between the descriptions and unknown ima...

mythe in the nations are approciat as imaginary and holly stories.these stories that moved from one generation to other  have such deep conection and graft with religious thought and natural phenomenons ,that is the human,s interpretation views and cultural removed  of death and second life.otherwise these stories like ebullient source have aparticular role to mauntain the values,religions and ...

Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Description The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who ...

The five contributions of this volume are a selection of the papers presented at the panel Meet the New Gods, Same as the Old Gods? Formulary, Ritual, and Status in Hellenistic Ruler Cult, hosted by the 8th Celtic Conference in Classics, Edinburgh, June 25-28, 2014. The call for papers had a dual purpose, which I could figuratively resume as «zooming in» on the fine-grained linguistic and pragm...