Sentences with phrase «mythology through»

Works like Voyage to Crete and Cupid and Nymph reflect Nakian's filtering of ancient mythology through modern aesthetics and his ability to give classical figures new life and sensuality by channeling elements of Abstract Expressionism.

This depiction of personal mythology through charged objects is shared with De Chirico and is taken up by contemporary artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Sophie Calle.

He references nature, literature, classical history and mythology through poetic, gestural painting and abstracted sculptures.

In her first solo museum exhibition, Oakland - born artist Sadie Barnette maps identity construction and personal mythology through the FBI file amassed during her father's years as a Black Panther.

Your god is a compilation of many other gods and mythologies through ancient history.

Not exact matches

His struggle to become the god of war was often told through fighting off hordes of monsters (based in Greek mythology), often in small arenas — you enter an area, the exits are sealed, and you must fight your way through groups of enemies until they're all dead and you can progress.

Scandinavian mythology also runs through film, which features trolls, runes and staves churches.

Rohr, who has also written «Quest for the Grail,» a book on mythology, says people have learned these hard lessons for centuries through myth.

Future children could be paraded through it by guides who say «Look children, as late as 2011, many people in America still believed in Middle Eastern Bronze Age mythology.

I believe the same rationalization that leads one to recognize the well - intended, but mistaken, attempts to explain the world through ancient mythologies also leads one to realize we must work together and help one another.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

Given that God does not make mistakes, it has to be that God WANTED us to see at the very onset how God's Word was constructed: To relay spiritual truths through true stories, history, mythology, prophesy and parables.

The recreation of Australians is permeated by a highly stylized mythology of contest through such things as mediated news, sports and drama, videos, fun parlours, and computer games.

Important to note here that we are not saying as they do in Greek mythology, for example, that the god Zeus seduced such and such a maiden and through an act of intercourse a half - divine, half - human child was conceived.

The rationale of sacrifice in general may of course throw some light on the theory of the atonement, but even so, what a primitive mythology it is, that a divine Being should become incarnate, and atone for the sins of men through his own blood!

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.

Bultmann, on the other hand, tries to avoid this threat to the kerygma, not by denying the influence of its environment, nor by a naïve dogmatism which the study of the History of Religions has rendered obsolete, but by penetrating through the temporary framework of mythology to the permanent truth behind it.

If we tried to use it as such a vehicle would not the Biblical material burst through the very form of the modern mythology?

In macho mythology, women stand for a feared weakness, passivity and vulnerability which must be purged and exorcised from the male psyche through the rituals of war.

Our continuation of the «intellectual activity» of the prophets and of the early church, responding to the suspicion of a Marx, a Nietzsche, or a Freud, takes us through the «speculative Good Friday» which declares that the God of the transcendental illusion, the God of «dogmatic mythology» is indeed dead.

Stone recognized that the late Sixties really were a time of living mythology, of god - creation, and he wanted his film to both take us through that, and indeed make us complicit in it.

Because each generation has, in a sense, to pass through all the stages of human evolution, both biologically and culturally, there is always a tendency for men to revert to mythology.

Today, that function is performed for many by television — through shared ritual, stereotypes and consistent mythologies.

Indeed, we experience the strange spectacle that, after passing a certain point, this absoluteness again became relative through the introduction of a Bodhisattva mythology.

Despite this, from Manfred von Richthofen through his arch-enemy Snoopy and on to Maverick, the mythology around flying aces and their swooping, diving, duels in the sky has invested the notion of the «dogfight» with an unshakeable glamour, and the sense that here is a feature of war that can perhaps be viewed as unambiguously fun.

Quantum Manby Lawrence M. Krauss (W. W. Norton) Though far from the first biographer to take on Richard Feynman, Krauss admirably interweaves parallel tales of the brilliant physicist, the womanizer, and the celebrated wit — and cuts through Feynman's self - mythology.

Focusing the lasers of science on controversial subjects can cut through mythology, cultural biases, and obfuscation, and this month's cover story is no exception.

British biographer Holmes» passion for the topic comes through in this rich and often entertaining chronicle of intrepid vertical explorers who risked (and in many cases lost) their lives lifting human flight out of the realm of mythology and into the air.

Jung's unique and broadly influential approach to psychology emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy.

Roving through philosophy, mythology, and the spiritual lives of great scientists, Frank offers a heartfelt olive branch to players in both camps.

It was through Campbell's seminars on the mythology of India that Leslie received her first exposure to Sanskrit, the language of sacred sound, ancient Indian texts, and of Yoga.

When her father (Sean Bean) is kidnapped, she must return to Silent Hill to rescue him and stop the mysterious Order of Valtiel by combining the two halves of the Seal of Metatron and wading through a whole lot of similarly meaningless mythology.

With a subtle, yet engrossing mix of comedy, intrigue, conspiracy, betrayal, mythology, magic, sadness, rage, joy and excitement wrapped up in a wonderfully charming oriental package, there are considerably worse ways of investing the 20 - 25 hours it'll take you to play through first time around.

A journey through four great mythologies, Loki allows the player to take - on the role of one of four heroes: a mighty Norse warrior, a fierce Greek fighter, a powerful Egyptian sorcerer or a skilled Aztec shaman.

In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.

Together, they will journey through a world full of Norse Mythology, which is an attempt to differentiate this sequel from the rest of the trilogy.

goes through the standard motions of regurgitating the plot and then having the cast and crew foam on about how much they loved the process and the mythology and on and on.

His latest film, The Ornithologist (2016), is a quasi-western shot in anamorphic widescreen that follows one man's bird watching trip that takes him through the pressures of nature, mysterious cultural rites, and a bricolage of mythologies that in turn transform him.

Through the allegorical traditions of werewolf mythology, the message of White's sacrifice is shown to fall on unlistening ears and unseeing eyes.

When Alex Proyas» Paradise Lost fell through, he turned his attention to a different mythology, and his Gods Of Egypt have been assembling at Summit Entertainment ever since.

And there is something like the heft of classical mythology in the resolution of their tale: in how the film is nearly a three - hour Mexican standoff between the three as they shuffle through betrayals and deceits and cheats and being horrible to those they love in the name of that love.

«You look back through the history of mythology and it's always, «She was so beautiful that wars were fought,» «He was so strong that he took down entire armies with his bare hands.»

I get the central conceit, separating the public personae of Bob Dylan into distinct pseudonymous characters — Christian Bale as the folksinger Dylan, Marcus Carl Franklin as the pre-fame ramblin» Dylan, Heath Ledger as the international media star Dylan, etc. — and through them exploring the myth of Dylan by converting it into mythology.

An epic story that begins 1000 years prior takes you through villages and dungeons and places you as the wandering samurai Shiren alongside figures straight out of Japanese mythology.

I'm anxious for its sequel to arrive on Switch so I can continue my adventure through this Norse mythology - inspired land.

An Inuit legend passed through centuries of oral tradition that demonstrates a very particular peculiarity of world mythology, Atanarjuat, seen one way, is a classic banning fable — thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife and possessions, thou shalt not murder.

Deakins is given the keys to the kingdom here and every moment of Jesse James looks like mythology pulled through a cinematic loom, often leaving the edges of the frame lanolin - indistinct as they trail off into history.

Under «The Evolution of Spider - Man» you'll find Josh Dreck & Eric Matthies's 25 - minute «Spider - Man: The Mythology of the 21st Century,» an excellent primer on the origin of the character and his various transmutations over the years delivered through interviews with a few of the good men who drew him, such as John Romita («The Norman Rockwell of Marvel,» says Todd McFarlane, meaning it as a compliment) and his same - named son.

Even more exquisitely strange than its stylized predecessor, Chad Stahelski's John Wick: Chapter 2 sends Reeves» artist - of - death on an Orphic journey through the criminal underworld; Derek Kolstad's script expands on the original's internal mythology with plenty of deadpan wit.

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.