Sentences with phrase «local mythology»

According to local mythology, they are sacred.

Having interviewed migrants in both cities, Pope.L interweaves their stories with local mythology, poetry, and rhythmic, non-narrative elements in his «whispers.»

The name of Raja Ampat comes from local mythology that tells about a woman who finds seven eggs.

Day 2 — Fraser's Beautiful Beach Side - Stroll along the boardwalk at Eli Creek - Visit the Pinnacle Coloured Sands and learn about the local mythology - Snap a pic at the wreck of the Maheno - Climb Indian Head for Fraser's most spectacular views - Experience Mother Nature's Jacuzzi at the Champagne Pools

The kings are named for local mythology that tells about a woman who finds seven eggs.

Convinced she must serve Ankou, the spirit of death in local mythology, Helene poisons and murders her mother.

For even in the various Buddhist centers of meditation and teaching, Buddhism is amalgamated with various levels of religious consciousness expressed in local mythologies.

Their experience enables them to tell a fairly simple tale of love through local mythologies and taboos in a quite unique and un-patronising tone.

Not exact matches

So, Sabio, speaking of the mythology remark in the comic itself, how do you think local mythoi might have informed Jewish and Christian scriptures, beyond the messiah, angel, resurrection, and virgin birth stuff?

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

In Roman mythology, the three graces represented beauty, charm and creativity — qualities, depending on the eye of beholders, found in abundance in a trio of Democratic challengers to local Republican state senators.

The essential characters are rounded out by Brendan Gleeson's dour sheriff, Oliver Platt's rich and eccentric mythology buff, and Betty White as the colorful local little old lady with a secret or two.

There she meets up with a boring fish - and - game warden (the boring Bill Pullman), a dimwitted local sheriff (slumming Irish actor Brendan Gleeson from Braveheart), and a sarcastic mythology professor (Oliver Platt).

The ending of the preceding Thor movie, Thor: The Dark World, is recapped in a play performed on Thor's Norse - mythology - inspired planetoid, Asgard, with an uncredited Matt Damon as the local ham playing Thor's adopted brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston).

Learn about pirates, sea monsters, and the island's rich mythology, and enjoy time to get to know native Icelanders — from artisans and storytellers to local families and kids.

According to the mythology from the local villagers, the word Sangeh is derived from the root «Sang» that means a determiner for person and «Ngeh» mean seeing or observing.

The room - sized installation of newly - commissioned sculptures traces her explorations into the mythologies, historical accounts, ecologies, and communities of Santa Barbara, CA which unfolded from a series of conversations and excursions with local residents over the course of Hirose's multiple visits to the area.

The sounds and smells, local culture and mythologies surround him, and his paintings now come alive from a new palette inspired by the colours of luscious tropical flowers and the blue - blacks nights.

Inspirations came from Greek and Roman mythology, history, and places, French Neo-classicism, and contemporary graffiti on ancient local walls.

The first edition of the show will be divided into seven sections: Master Figure, Personal Mythologies, Fidelity to Place, Common Language, Art in Action, Street Morphology, and Local Histories of Art.

Director / Curator Mary Reid's counterview of contemporary artistic practice in Winnipeg pleasantly interrupted a reverie of city - centric exhibitions asserting legacies and mythologies of local artists and art production.

In curator David Elliott «s words, Hahn's works engage with «both archetypal and local legends by weaving a common female mythology between them that enters into dialogue with the present».

Her last solo show focused on the mythology of the Deep South and the Civil War, and in addition to large scale drawings and sculptures, she created a weekly program of events to bring those themes to life in the community - with local tours of neighborhoods and cemeteries, guest lectures and workshops.

This does not just speak to local pride, but the much larger mythology of frontier town Texas.

The result is a contemporary pictorial mythology that subtly reminds the viewer of a profound truth: that it is in the flourishing variety of the local that the fate of the world resides.

However, it did not prevent the birth of the local cryptocurrency — auroracoin, whose creator bears the pseudonym Baldur Friggjar Óðinsson derived from Scandinavian mythology.

Ontario, Canada About Blog Melissa is a Canadian, polytheistic / animistic witch, interested in shamanism and pre-christian spiritual practices, journeying to other worlds, sacred crafting, fairy tales, mythology, spell - songs and music writing, working with her Gods and Ancestors, gardening and interacting with the local wights, weaving magick and enchantment into the «mundane».