Browsing: Mythology

A mythological study of the unity between divine genealogy and cosmic formation, showing how the births of Gaia, Uranus, Pontus, and the Ourea simultaneously construct the structure of the world.

A mythological study of Eros and Eris as opposing yet interdependent forces of union, desire, separation, conflict, generation, and cosmic becoming in Greek thought.

Zeus’s battle with Typhon represents the struggle between an ordered but plural cosmos and an anti-cosmic force whose power must be bounded rather than completely erased.

De Morgan’s Cadmus and Harmonia accompanies a mythological reading of Cadmus’s music, Typhon’s desire, Zeus’s restored tendons, and Harmonia as the principle connecting difference into cosmic order.

Asclepius and his serpent-entwined staff embody the ancient relationship among healing, bodily renewal, medical knowledge, mortality, and the dangerous attempt to overcome death.

Rubens’s depiction of Odysseus and Nausicaa accompanies a philosophical reading of Odysseus as a figure of multiple identities, narrative continuity, masking, adaptability, and survival.

An anthropological study of Taştepeler examining secondary burial, skull and bone selection, defleshing, fire, architectural deposition, and the social reconstruction of death.

Modified and selectively deposited skulls at Taştepeler illuminate Neolithic practices involving defleshing, perforation, possible suspension, ritual display, architectural placement, and communal memory.

Primary and secondary burials reveal how Neolithic communities at Taştepeler treated bodies, selected bones, organized mortuary space, and maintained relationships between death, architecture, and memory.

A representation of Isis with Horus, highlighting motherhood, divine protection, magical power, and the Egyptian belief in rebirth and life after death.