Праздник Дуаньу считается одним из трёх больших традиционных праздников китайского народа. История праздника насчитывает более 2500 лет. В 2009 г. праздник вошёл в список нематериального культурного наследия ЮНЕСКО. Традиции и обычаи включают состязание гребле на драконьих лодках, плетение пятицветных браслетов, ароматные мешочки от злых духов болезней, развешивание над входной дверью стенах ве...

As part of the Darwin celebrations in 2009, the Natural History Museum in London unveiled TREE, the first contemporary artwork to win a permanent place in the Museum. While the artist claimed that the inspiration for TREE came from Darwin's famous notebook sketch of branching evolution, sometimes referred to as his "tree of life" drawing, this article emphasises the apparent incongruity between...

BACKGROUND It is well known how often psychiatric patients report religious experiences. These are especially frequent in schizophrenic and epileptic patients as the subject of their delusions. The question we pose is: are there differences between this kind of religious experiences and those we find in religious texts or in the mythological tradition? RESULTS An overview on famous mythologic...

Hadis/Sünnet malzemesi farklı açılardan çalışmalara konu edilmektedir. Bunların bir veçhesini de kültür odaklı etütler oluşturmaktadır. Teknik hadisçiliği gözetmekle beraber, onun dışında noktaya odaklanan bu yaklaşımlar, hadisin içtimaî etkisini irdelemektedir. Bu çalışma, uydurma hadislerdeki mitolojik unsurları mezkûr yöntemle ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. Kur’an ve sahih sünnet/hadis, çalışman...

shahnameh, composed in the 10th century by ferdowsi, is one of the most significant classics of the world. it is about heroic tales of ancient persia. the contents and the poet's style in describing events takes the reader back to ancient times and makes him/her feel the events. ferdowsi worked for thirty years to complete this crown jewel of persian literature. publius vergilius maro know...

fairy tales are stories in which metaphysical, paranormal and mysterious events take place and there is no exact time and place; everything is spiritual. the lorestanian story of “daughter of daal” is a tale of the “mythical birth” of a girl from an egg and her being raised by daal (phoenix) in the cave of a caucasus-like mountain. daughter of daal is snared by a hireling hellcat’s deceit, but ...