Family Myths, Beliefs, and Customs as a Research/Educational Tool to Explore Identity Formation

This paper outlines a qualitative research tool designed to explore personal identity formation as described by Erik Erikson and offers self-reflective and anonymous evaluative comments made by college students after completing this task. Subjects compiled a list of 200 myths, customs, fables, rituals, and beliefs from their family of origin and then reflected upon the relevance and meaning of such items. The research and instructional tool described in the paper should be of considerable interest to teachers who work to promote self-reflection amongst adolescents as well as case study researchers and therapists who wish to study identity formation and values.

Samurai Son and Exploring Cultural Myths Through Fantasy Fiction

Samurai Son is a story that captures the beauty, wonder and imagination of Japanese legends and mythology with some modern-day sensibilities and morals against the backdrop of medieval Japan. The story blends Shinto religion and stories about the tengu, bird-like wind spirits with a modern plotline in a Japanese fantasy universe. This world is filled with magic, demons, kami (magical spirits), gods and goddesses, samurai, ninja and martial arts.

It's not (only) about Erika Steinbach. Three myths in the German discourse on the resettlements. OSW Point of View, August 2010

The activity of the Federation of Expellees and its chairperson Erika Steinbach, including efforts aimed at establishing the Centre Against Expulsions have been and will continue to be a source of controversy in Germany’s domestic policy, as well as in Polish–German and Czech–German relations. Steinbach has become a central figure in German inter-party conflicts and in disputes with the country’s immediate neighbours. In her efforts to gain more publicity for injustice and suffering in the German past she has resorted to controversial methods and has thus latched onto another stage in the historical debate on the consequences of World War II. This time it is related to and interpreted from the point of view of the German victims. The consequences of the present debate on how Germany suffered during the war do matter and will continue to matter both for Germany itself and for Germany’s relations with its near neighbours. Contrary to popular belief, the debate, still underway and in the shape imposed by Erika Steinbach, is likely to bring some benefit to Poland.

Siedem mitow na temat Kaliningradu = Seven Myths About Kaliningrad. Point of View, July 2002

No abstract.

Multipolar myths and unipolar fantasies. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 60, February 2015

Is the world becoming multipolar or will it remain unipolar? Analysts disagree, but it might be that this does not matter too much and that we better skip polarity terminology altogether.

Sumerian epics and myths /

Reproductions of tables from Nippur belonging to the Babylonian section of the University museum of the University of Pennsylvania. S. N. Kramer has grouped the plates in their present arrangement and has contributed the introductory descriptions of the text. Cf. Foreword.

Orpheus: myths of the world.

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Myths of the Toba and Pilagá Indians of the Gran Chaco,

Mode of access: Internet.

Class myths and culture /

Mode of access: Internet.

An epitaph for vocational guidance: myths, actualities, implications

Mode of access: Internet.

...Un-natural history, or Myths of ancient science; being a collection of curious tracts on the basilisk, unicorn, phoenix, behemoth or leviathan, dragon, giant spider, tarantula, chameleons, satyrs, homines caudati, &e.,

"This edition is limited to 275 small paper copies, and 75 large paper copies."

A hand-book of mythology; the myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, illustrated from antique sculptures.

London edition, 1879, has title: The myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome.

Faded myths.

Mode of access: Internet.