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Asian martial arts and films functioned as mythic models which inspired Black and brown youth in the making of ‘urban warriors,’ and later the Wu-Tang Clan.
Nos Galan Gaeaf on October 31 in Wales is steeped in folklore and tradition.
A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating wryness and quiet beauty.
Many ‘myths’ are authentic memories of human pasts, told by people who passed down precise accounts of their history.
From Ancient Mesopotamia to Shakespeare to Arnhem Land, humans have been telling tails of mermaids for millennia.
Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier – sometimes scarier – sides of love.
The idea of virgin birth has been part of Christianity since the start, but its significance has shifted over time.
Like all members of the category of ‘fey’, or the beings of the preternatural world, including fairies, elves, and pixies, goblins are renowned for being tricksy. In other words, best avoided.
Instead of displaying myths, Samburu rock art reveals real-life stories and is made as a leisure activity.
Enormous, scaly, fire-breathing dragons have fascinated civilizations for centuries. A scholar who studies monsters explains their power and appeal.
The ‘Disneyfication’ of fairies has helped us forget their darker origins.
From Fiji to France to Central Australia, stories abound of lands lost beneath the sea. Some are likely founded on millennia-old memories of coastal submergence, offering us clues today.
People tell tales to explain what they see – centuries later, scientists try to map handed-down myths onto real geological events.
China’s space culture is unique and deeply rooted in the country’s traditions.
‘WandaVision’ reimagines stories from Egyptian and Greek mythology, as well as Buddhist tradition.
His life’s work was asserting the humanity and history of the Bantu people, while proposing that the soul was able to bring knowledge of the past and of the future into the present.
Is making sense of a story more important than getting at its truth? Looking at the treatment of myth in ancient Greece may help us navigate what is true, and whether that matters.
Authors sometimes put deeper meanings into their stories, but really, it’s the reader who decides.
An ad alluding to the vulva is sparking controversy, but there are few objections to phallic symbols. What explains this difference in treatment?
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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PhD student, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor of Research, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
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Emeritus professor of biology, UCL
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PhD Candidate - Classics, University of Newcastle
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Head of the Marketing Innovation and Distribution Program at EMLV, Pôle Léonard de Vinci
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Assistant Professor, Film; Department of Theatre, Film & Communication Arts, Whittier College
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Professeur d'histoire ancienne, Université de Lorraine
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Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
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Lecturer in Fine Art, Printmaking, RMIT University
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Professor and Tutorial Fellow in English, University of Oxford
