Il mito di Prometeo riscritto by Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska

“…This article aims to examine the presence and meaning of the myth about the Titan in one of the works of Giacomo Leopardi La scommessa di Prometeo basing on both ancient and earlier Italian literary tradition in depicting the deity. Leopardi, well familiar with ancient and contemporary culture, rewrites the myth in the way to express his vision of human life. …”
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Palakesi obiugri mütoloogiast IV by Aado Lintrop

“…Next, the article concentrates on the most popular deity - World Surveyor Man. In the third part, besides the last mentioned Lord of the Underworld, Sacred Town Elder and Kazym River Mistress are treated. …”
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Être affecté : petite phénoménologie de la « prophétie » charismatique (et de ses conséquences) by Philippe Gonzalez

“…Coupling a phenomenology of religious experience to a pragmatist approach, we will examine the political consequences, for the national community, of this advent of the deity.…”
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Northernmost distribution of five tree species to the Western Ghats from the sacred groves of Pune District, Maharashtra, India by A. Kulkarni, M.N. Datar, U. Awasarkar, A. Upadhye

“…Sacred Groves are the forest patches dedicated to a local deity, which have been conserved since centuries and play a very important role in conserving many threatened plants as well as animal species. …”
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Actual problems of Ukrainian religious science. Until the age of 25, the Department of Religious Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine by Anatolii M. Kolodnyi

“…She is subjected to doctrinal deity and ritual-religious interpretation, through their own institutionalized structures are included in different spheres of human life, sacralizing them. …”
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Maritime and Island Culture Along the Kuroshio Current by Hyekyung Hyun

“…This special thematic section includes papers on sea deity beliefs, pork food culture, and place naming on islands along the Kuroshio Current, with special focus on Jeju (Korea), Zhoushan Archipelago (China), Green Island (Taiwan), and the Ryūkyū Islands (Japan).…”
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The Fulcrum of Experience in Indian Yoga and Possession Trance by Frederick M. Smith

“…The &#8220;inner organ&#8221; (<i>antaḥkaraṇa</i>) in the Indian philosophical school called Sāṃkhya is applied in two different experiential contexts: in the act of transcendence according to the path of yoga explored in the Yogasūtras of Pata&#241;jali (ca. 350 CE) and in the process of identity shift that occurs in possession by a deity in a broader range of Indian cultural practices. …”
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What is it like to be a god? A philosophical clarification of instances of divine suffering in the Psalter by Jaco W. Gericke

“…By paying attention to what is presupposed in language about negative divine emotions, the nature of mental anguish in the life of a deity is elucidated from examples in the text in which Yhwh is said to have states of mind involving anger, hate, compassion, jealousy and grief.…”
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The Genitive Case on Altares from Asia Minor indicating a Boundary Inscription by Ebru Akdoğu Arca

“…Proceeding from this evidence, Akdoğu Arca assumes that even small altars mentioning a deity in the genitive case served as boundary markers. …”
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Petra – Holy City from the Perspective of Art, Architecture, inscriptions and Other Features by Eyad Almasri, Firas Alawneh

“…And, while some of them have written about Nabataean religion, only few of them mentioned information about the holiness of the city; specifically, if it was worshiped as a deity. The aim of this study is to fulfil a gap in Nabataean religion in general and, in particular, re-examine the status of Petra in their religion. …”
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The Dreadful Dance of the Goddess: Creativity and Mimesis in a Possession Cult of Assam by Irene Majo Garigliano

“…The dance of deodhās reproduces to some extent the character and iconography of the possessing deities, but is not limited to that. Through the use of his body, each deodhā actively interprets this shared image of the deity, dancing in a singular way. …”
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Arca Ganesa Di Daerah Kuala Muda [NB1912.G35 A532 2005 f rb ]. by Nagu, Ananthan

“…I chose sculpture of Ganesa as my research material because Ganesa is a Hindu deity which has a unique form. …”
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Presocratic poetics: Parmenides, Empedocles and literary form by Mackenzie, K

“…I argue that Empedocles' fragments come from a single poem which seems to invert this narrative pattern: instead of a mortal leaving the familiar world to meet a deity, a deity comes to the familiar world to meet with mortals. …”

The Sacred Landscape of Central Asia in the Achaemenid Period by Xin Wu

“…Textual and artefactual evidence confirms the coexistence of various belief systems in Bactria and Sogdia, with the Achaemenid form of Zoroastrianism (or Mazdeism) among the practiced religions. The deity of the Amu Darya/Oxus River held widespread reverence. …”
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Godard and Sound: Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard by Albertine Fox by Caitríona Walsh

“…Enfant terrible, celluloid deity,and self-construed “composer” of film, Jean-Luc Godard requires scant introduction in any undertaking that concerns the on-screen arts. …”
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The River Wharfe and Verbeia, Celtic Goddess by Andrew Charles Breeze

“…The pagan Celts worshipped rivers as goddesses; the Wharfe is a formidable stream, liable to dangerous floods; the name hence indicates a female deity regarded with awe, whose name survives to this day on a Roman altar in Ilkley Museum. …”
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Passions au miroir: Hugo et Garibaldi dans la solitude de l’Histoire by Marco Nuti

“…Being an undefined figure of man, equidistant from deity and humanity, the warrior hero represents the Human Community. …”
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Fear and Ethics in the Sundarbans. Anthropology in Amitav Ghosh’s "The Hungry Tide" by Alessandro Vescovi

“…This paper investigates the worship and the myth of the sylvan deity Bonbibi, and of her counterpart, the demon Dakshin Rai. …”
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PERUBAHAN PANDANGAN ONTOLOGI PADA WAYANG MASA ISLAM DAN PRA ISLAM by Nurhadi Siswanto

“…The changes occur due to difference concept of Deity’s thought in Islam and Hinduism. The Islam belief that does not recognize the concept ‘dewa’, it is not eliminating the existence of ‘dewa’ in various puppet stories, but instead desecrated it. …”
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On the Differences between Han Rhapsodies and Han Paintings in Their Portrayal of the Queen Mother of the West and Their Religious Significance by Xiaoyang Wang, Shixiao Wang

“…This paper argues that there exist two Queen Mothers of the West (Xiwangmu) in the Han era (206 BC–AD 220): one worshipped as a goddess of longevity and immortality by people from the upper class; the other worshipped by the ordinary people as a seemingly omnipotent deity with divine power over both the immortal world and the mortal world. …”
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