Search for dissertations about: "Number symbolism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words Number symbolism.

  2. 1. The building blocks of sound symbolism

    Author : Niklas Erben Johansson; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sound symbolism; Iconicity; typology; language evolution; lexicon;

    Abstract : Languages contain thousands of words each and are made up by a seemingly endless collection of sound combinations. Yet a subsection of these show clear signs of corresponding word shapes for the same meanings which is generally known as vocal iconicity and sound symbolism. READ MORE

  4. 2. The crown of Arsinoë II. The creation and development of an imagery of authority

    Author : Maria Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arsinoë; crowns; Ptolemaic; reliefs; Egyptian art; Egyptian religion; symbolism; female pharaohs; Hathor; God s wife; Edfu; Philae; Dendera; relative scaling; relative placement; concepts of time; post-colonial theory;

    Abstract : This study deals with a unique crown that was created for Queen Arsinoë II. The aim is to identify and understand the symbolism that is embedded in each pictorial detail that together form the crown and how this reflects the wearer’s socio-political and religious positions. READ MORE

  5. 3. Poiski Rusi nevidimoj. Kitezskaja legenda v russkoj kul'ture. 1843-1940

    Author : Irina Karlsohn; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian literature; the Kitezh legend; myth; Old Believers; N. Rimsky-Korsakov; symbolism; А. Bely; the Petersburg myth; the myth of Holy Russia; N. Kliuev;

    Abstract : This doctoral dissertation examines the legend of the invisible city of Kitezh, its development and the role that it played in Russian culture between the years 1843 and 1940. It was during this period that the original folk legend was discovered by the Russian intelligentsia and transformed into a new myth about Russia. READ MORE

  6. 4. Dream Experience - Phenomenology meets Cognitive Neuroscience

    Author : Lennart Karlsson; Filosofiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophical logic; dream symbolism; neuroscience; delusional states; visual awareness; lucid dreaming; Phenomenology; dreaming; Teoretisk filosofi; logik;

    Abstract : This treatise examines what I call the ‘traditional view’ on the phenomenology of dreaming. According to this view, dreams are experienced in more or less the same way as waking reality – that is, our experience of “being-in-the-dream” is very much like our experience of “being-in-the-world”. READ MORE

  7. 5. Nut - The Goddess of Life in Text and Iconography

    Author : Nils Billing; Saphinaz-Amal Naguib; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Egyptologi; Ancient Egyptian religion; goddess; mother; water; space; ontology; Pyramid Texts; horizon; tree goddess; Egyptologi; Egyptology; Egyptologi; Egyptology; Egyptologi;

    Abstract : This study delineates the basic characteristics of the ancient Egyptian goddess Nut as expressed in funerary texts and iconography. The goddess is treated as conceptual in character (Begriffsgottheit), i.e. as an animate expression for the ideas that the ancient Egyptians associated with the sky: space and water. READ MORE