Sentences with phrase «mythological stories as»

Ortiz sites the Brothers Grimm and other mythological stories as influences when creating narratives for her haunting work.

Not exact matches

... like scripts thousands years before the bible that talked about virgin births and resurrections after 3 days... and the mythological connections didn't strike you as just another fool's story?

Whether to give some unified, mythological history, as I said, or some picture of the god behind their stories.

The language of religion is always highly metaphorical — we might also say mythological, imaginative, poetical — and it can not be taken as if it were a literal story or something similar to straightforward human discourse.

When the early Jews retold the story to fit it into their own mythological framework, Utnapishtim and his family became Noah and his family and Enki and Enlil were recast as Yahweh.

That aspect of the Orpheus story that we perceive and feel in the summary just as much as in the original is its mythological character.

By «mythological» I refer to the suprahistorical elements in the story which came into being within the Christian community as the only possible way to express this transcendent and redemptive meaning of the event.

NJBob... just a few posts below you opine that telling mythological stories to children, as you decribe them, is tantamount to child abuse... now it appears you're suggesting we CAN tell mythological stories to children as long as we provide proper disclaimers..

And again, through the work of other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the mythological element in the biblical story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.

Although there are some Christians, such as the Creationists in the USA, who insist on the literal accuracy of the biblical account of creation, the majority of Christians would now see the stories as mythological.

There is more of the legendary and mythological in the Majjhima, some quite interesting stories occurring as, for example, that of the conversion of a terrible bandit who thus attained Arhantship, i.e., who attained to Nirvana in this present existence (number 86).

Adults in our society maintain an unspoken pact to preserve the story about these mythological characters as a gift to children.

She holds a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and has authored numerous articles and papers as well as two books: Myths of the Asanas: Stories from the Heart of the Yoga Tradition (Mandala Publishing, 2010) is a wildly popular go - to guide for practitioners who are interested in the stories of the origins of belovedStories from the Heart of the Yoga Tradition (Mandala Publishing, 2010) is a wildly popular go - to guide for practitioners who are interested in the stories of the origins of belovedstories of the origins of beloved poses.

Director Brett Ratner has re-imagined the inspiring mythological adventures of the infamous half - man, half - god in this exhilarating epic, with the awesome Dwayne Johnson as the mighty Hercules in this thrilling story of fearlessness, courage and heroism.

Perfectly portraying women as a gender to be reckoned with, the story presents us with a Wonder Woman (played by Gal Gadot) who leaves her safe mythological environment behind and enters a world of human chaos and war, where her rescuing abilities and good heart are sorely needed.

A lot of people have pointed out the story of this family in particular and the mob in general has superceded the western as the core American mythological story.

Suites of saints, virtues, vices, the signs of the zodiac and the seven liberal arts were also common, as were narrative series that recounted stories from the Bible and other religious and mythological subjects such as the Labors of Hercules, the Flight into Egypt, the Passion of Christ, and the Life of the Virgin.

Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self - mythologized personal narrative served as an undying battery to produce great art works until the end of her very long life, her late stuffed cloth figural sculptures as raw, uncompromising, and young as her early objects and drawings.

More than mere depictions of Ovid's stories, Titian referred to his mythological paintings as «poesie» - the visual equivalent of poetry.

Whilst playing on the mythological story of the same name, Sassoon uses the structure of his domestic space as container for multiple works.

The scope of his genius included portraiture, landscape painting, mythological painting, realistic stories, symbolical representations, tragedy, comedy, satire, farce, men, gods, devils, witches, the seen and the unseen and as was the case with Shakespeare's extravagant genius - an occasional excursion into the obscene.