This project charts the development of a brand inspired by the symbol of three rabbits with interlocking ears. The process documented in this book details the evolution of the brand, charting its history and the deciphering of its language. The symbol is explored through a colle…
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This investigation’s goal is to explore the Reinterpretation and Historical Illustration of scenes from ancient civilizations, particularly the famous scene of the Psychostasia, from the civilization of Ancient Egypt. The aforementioned scene addresses the mythological moment of…
In his novels on India, Rushdie finds it necessary to employ the mythical mode which accommodates the deeply religious as well as the secular side of the nation. Especially in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh, the Hindu gods dance through his pages, taking on the myt…
Scholars have scrutinized Gwendolyn Brooks, Eudora Welty, H.D., Margaret Atwood, and Louise Glück individually and collectively, in various combinations, for their use of classical myth and feminist revisionary processes. Historically, these writers studied Latin or Greek at a t…
America is a country long haunted by its pseudoinnocence, by its blinding prolonged naiveté. We are a culture that closes our eyes to all that is too painful to see, persuading ourselves that we have escaped, that we are neither interdependent nor vulnerable, or that we are vict…
This thesis asks the question whether and to what extent Osun in the New World is the same as the Osun of the Old World. My argument is that the selected Yoruba myths studied in this dissertation prove that Osun in the Old and the New Worlds is the same divinity as the Osun of t…
The Greek word for soul is psyche, which also translates as breath, the divine breath that animates all living things. Birds, as animal guides in myth, serve as a powerful connection to the soul; the very nature of a bird's movement is to swim in the divine breath, air. If, as t…
This study concludes that the book of Ezekiel was not an amalgam of visions and oracles compiled with no particular literary strategy but rather is a purposeful literary work, which betrays the compiler's rhetorical intent. The book of Ezekiel shows a masterful literary mind beh…
Bali, known as Island of the Gods, is where day and night, light and shadow, and visible and invisible realms are of almost equal measure. Art and religion are intertwined and create an ethos of reverence and relationship between matter and spirit. Like the process of weaving—in…
In H.D's lyric epic, Helen in Egypt, Helen of Troy experiences a phenomenological transformation in the brazier of the heart, which burns both on the beach of her new home in Egypt and in the depths of her psychic life. I have envisioned a process by which Helen psychologically …
Although Victorian England was a strongly shame-based culture, no book-length study explores the nineteenth century understanding of shame or its influence in the oeuvre of a major Victorian novelist. Because George Eliot and her partner George Henry Lewes worked at the crux of …
The purpose of this multi-method single-case study was to examine the application of Joseph Campbell's Heroic Journey model as a means of professional identity creation in the life of Walt Disney. Walt Disney was an entrepreneur, cartoonist, filmmaker, inventor, studio head, and…
This dissertation inquires into the experience of self-transcendence that results in compassionate living. This awareness engenders a sense of belonging, a cosmological vision in a social narrative in which individuals are members of the community and become caretakers of the ec…
My thesis involves an examination of the first written text of ancient China’s pre-dynastic period. The Dao De Jing of LaoTse presented a fully developed system of philosophical thought that would influence all future writings of Traditional Chinese culture. LaoTse is said to ha…
Epic Explorations in Opera-The Hero’s Overture, is an original inquiry into the mythic patterns found in stories as they relate to six operas in this analysis. Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffman, Gounod’s …
This study in biblical theology proceeds from a basic curiosity: why do the foundational literature of many religions, Jewish and Christian ones in particular, enshrine stories of highborn individuals who (for one reason or another) are alienated from their inherited context of …
Kyrgyzstan experienced a very critical moment during a transition from the Soviet Union state into new independent republic. Despite being rooted in the rich history of great civilizations and cultural traditions, there was an urge for the new national identity, which would unif…
Religion is a part of the general culture, and people can choose to engage with it on various levels. Because we live in a media culture, popular media, including entertainment media, is where many people encounter religion. Entertainment media that uses religion to create its n…
Any media that is targeted toward children should bear in mind how impressionable young children are. The intention of this study was to examine the portrayal of gender roles and other values in Hindu mythology from the perspectives of adults who work with children. Data was col…