Metaphors of winter natural phenomena in Lithuanian and Russian poetic texts by Birutė Jasiūnaitė, Jelena Konickaja

“…The similarity consists in the fact that subject metaphors are most often utilized in poetic texts, as well as anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and biomorphic metaphors. The differences are explained by the lack of metaphors in one of the systems that are presented in the other one, for instance, in Lithuanian poetry there are no metaphors of ‘frost’ as smoke and ‘ice’ as mica, while Russian poets do not use metaphors, such as ‘a winter phenomenon of nature’ is a means for lighting, or ‘icicles’ are a clock that is characteristic of Lithuanian poetry. …”
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Eastern Tales for Western Readers: A Combination of Traditions within D. Mamin-Sibiryak’s Legends by Tuliakova, Natalia, Kuznetsova, Ekatarina

“…His artful employment of linguistic and poetic devices such as foreign words, alien names and realias, zoomorphic metaphors and similes, as well as concepts and sets of values not typical of European mentality, misled his contemporaries into thinking that he had published some collected folk material. …”
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Reflection of religious motives in the heroic epic «Manas» by A. A. Bakirov

“…The article presents the totemic beliefs on the example of the zoomorphic goddess Ak-Bugu very vividly. It tells how Ak-Bugu (literally, the Holy Deer-girl) feeds baby Semetei with her milk, and his mother seeing it,perceived it as a good sign. …”
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SIMILARIDADES E DIFERENÇAS GRÁFICAS NAS CENAS DE CAÇA NA ÁREA ARQUEOLÓGICA SERRA DA CAPIVARA by Daniela Cisneiros, Leonardo de Morais Borges

“…With the objective of identifying similarities and graphic differences in hunting scenes, the present research started from the thematic and scenographic analysis of the elements (zoomorphic and antropomorphic) contained in the scenes. …”
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¡Caiatunar, caiatunar!: Pervivencia de ritos de fertilidad prehispánica en la clandestinidad del Loa (norte de Chile) by Lautaro Núñez, Victoria Castro

“…In this text some agrarian rituals of prehispanic origin were identified, and studied from an interdisciplinary perspective that considers archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic approaches. Zoomorphic icons with a regional distribution, symbols of good augury for fertility and a successful harvest, were identified. …”
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Interaction of comparative struc­tu­res and their elements in modern russian prose by Natalia A. Nikolina, Zoya Yu. Petrova, Natalya A. Fateeva

“…The most frequent semantic classes of metaphors and similes used in interaction contexts are anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and culinary images. In addition to them, mechanistic (including computer), scientific and theat­rical metaphors and similes have been identified. …”
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Mixed martial arts discourse as a variety of sports martial and interactive discourses by Alexeyev, Alexander Borisovich

“…In the process of the analysis, zoomorphic, hunting, criminal, etc. metaphors have also been considered. …”
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Chronology of the Burials with Animal-Style Horse Harness from the Prikubansky Burial Ground by Natalya Yu. Limberis, Ivan I. Marchenko

“…The pairs of cheekpieces are gamma-shaped, the round shaft swells to figure 8. Its zoomorphic plaques show the stylized horns and heads of deer, wolf and griffin. …”
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Horse frontlets and cheek-guards of the 4th — early 2nd centuries BCE from monuments of Stavropol Upland by Prokopenko, Yu.A.

“…These include: (a) two elongated trapezoids found near Aleksandrovsk, (b) an openwork rectangle-shaped frontlet of the Stavropol hoard, punctured with rows of triangles, with rectangular projections along the end margins, and (c) zoomorphically shaped plate-like chanfrons and cheek-guards of the same hoard. …”
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From Ukrainian linguocultural space. Хмара (Hmara) by Оксана Модестівна Гурова

“…Among the secondary nomination units that denote cloud, attention should be paid to the zoomorphic images which are closely connected with the myths that are fundamental to archaic cultures and are condensedly represented in the mythologems of the sky serpent, sky cow and sky horses. …”
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Encouraging the expression of the unspeakable : influence and agency in a robotic creature by Knouf, Nicholas A

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East-central Florida pre-Columbian wood sculpture: Radiocarbon dating, wood identification and strontium isotope studies by Ostapkowicz, J, Schulting, R, Wheeler, R, Newsom, L, Brock, F, Bull, I, Snoeck, C

“…The dates for three large zoomorphic carvings recovered from the St. Johns River at Hontoon Island place them between ca. …”

The Rock Art Of Kinta Valley,Perak, Malaysia by Saw, Chaw Yeh

“…Both ST 1 and ST 2 can be found at rock shelters or caves and represented by coloured rock art depicting geometric shapes and zoomorphic figures. The other three sub-traditions are made up of black rock art, with an occasional depiction of white rock art. …”
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Entre dos mundos: los grabados al aire libre de Pena Bicuda de Loureiro (Teo, Galicia, España) = Between two worlds: prehistoric open-air petroglyphs from Pena Bicuda de Loureiro (... by Ramón Fábregas Valcarce, Carlos Rodríguez Rellán, Jorge Guitián Castromil, Xoán Guitián Rivera

“…Otherwise, it is by no means frequent that a decorated stone, located </em><em>away from the coastline, should show a relatively high number of zoomorphic representations (mostly deer), a number of them apparently in close association with the idol-like motif. …”
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Fauna-inspired fashion through the English language glass by Alla Belova

“…Playfulness of animal-inspired fashion items is conveyed via humorous names and naming components. Zoomorphic accessories give rise to new portmanteau words. …”
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Okovi noriško-panonske ženske noše, odkriti pri Mačkovcu pri Žužemberku by Sonja Petru

“…Dennoch wieder.gibt elie zoomorphe Ornamentik klar den Konzept keltischer Kunst, elie man in cliesem Fali als clekorativ und zweiclimensionell betrachten kann und sich auch das figurale Motiv der gemeinsamen Ausdrucksidee unterordnet. …”
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Ancient Kyrgyz writing (from ancient times to the 10th century A.D.) by Kulzhamal Dzhamankulova

“…The author also explores ornaments at the burial grounds of Sagly-Bazhy II, Kazylgan, Kokel; reveals the semantics of geometric, plant, zoomorphic patterns. The narrative character of the patterns, historicity, realism and musicality of Kyrgyz ornaments are noted. …”
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Rock Art Conservation and Geotourism: A practical example from Foum Chenna engravings site, Morocco by Mohamed Abioui, Lhassan M Barki, Mohammed Benssaou, Abdelkrim Ezaidi, Nezha El Kamali

“…The majority of engravings which depict riders associated with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic representations, also, importantly, the numerous rock inscriptions recounting a scriptural tradition and reflecting the historical beginnings of Libyan writing, were today revitalized to transcribe the Tamazight language. …”
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Automatization and reborn of the characters in Jerzy Sosnowski’s The Aglaja Apocryph by Molnar Angelika

“…The study of plant, zoomorphic components, musical elements and artefacts related to the images in question leads to the discovery of parallelisms between different parts of the book, in which several readings of the same story of a woman and a man collide: who is a predator and who is a victim; who is a machine and who is a human; who is the creator and who is the creation? …”
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Study of a Newly Discovered Microliths and Rock Art Site, Badedev Rakseha at Panna District of Madhya Pradesh, India by Devideen Patel, Yogambar Singh Farswan

“…In rock paintings, themes are most dominantly zoomorphic figurine, human figurine, handprints, and geometric and non-geometric design. …”
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