SAH Commons | Lloyd Graham | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/lloydgraham/activity/ Activity feed for Lloyd Graham. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:18:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2119d6e8d09c436985505162ca79e2bb Lloyd Graham edited the blog post New Issue of INCANTATIO journal in the group Magic, ancient and modern https://magic.hcommons.org/2025/08/15/new-issue-of-incantatio-journal/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:21:05 -0400 The delayed 2024 issue of INCANTATIO: An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming is now available, with free fulltext, at https://ojs.folklore.ee/incantatio/issue/view/issue12/16 (released 25 Jun 2025).

]]> 9c77504fb515f29b7bd0c1f8192131d2 Lloyd Graham's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1920852/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:35:51 -0400 0 001dcc2d4f6be526569a4065dc301bb9 Lloyd Graham edited the blog post Free 2025 book on Amazonian sorcery (mostly in English) in the group Magic, ancient and modern https://magic.hcommons.org/2025/02/24/free-2025-book-on-amazonian-sorcery-mostly-in-english/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:13:28 -0500 The publisher is offering free downloads of the newly-published Open Access book Sorcery in Amazonia: A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault, eds. James Andrew Whitaker, Matthias Lewy, and Tarryl Janik […]

]]> 3da0071de230fcfe61b3c7db93c904b9 Lloyd Graham edited the blog post Free Archaeopress book on ancient magic (mostly in Spanish) in the group Magic, ancient and modern https://magic.hcommons.org/2025/02/18/free-archaeopress-book-on-ancient-magic-mostly-in-spanish/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:27:46 -0500 Archaeopress is offering free downloads (for personal use) of the PDF for its 2024 book Magia y brujería en el Mundo Antiguo (eds. José Javier Martínez García & Javier Gómez Marín) at https […]

]]> a84220da20744ebb771215e2109a5928 Lloyd Graham edited the blog post Talks from the International Conference on Amulets 2024 in the group Magic, ancient and modern https://magic.hcommons.org/2025/01/31/talks-from-the-international-conference-on-amulets-2024/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:42:31 -0500 The Program and Abstracts from this conference, held last November, can be downloaded from https://icamulets.wixsite.com/amulets/about-4 .

In addition, many of the talks are available as videos on YouTube, at […]

]]> fe32924f46e67021c49af7beb08e0224 Lloyd Graham's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1909365/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 02:55:12 -0500 0 7f60c31f3f1073d097d533d0130fd515 Lloyd Graham edited the blog post New KC Group: "Magic, ancient and modern" in the group Magic, ancient and modern https://magic.hcommons.org/2025/01/20/new-kc-group-magic-ancient-and-modern/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:15:53 -0500 I have created this group for those interested in the academic study of magic, ritual power and esotericism, including areas of overlap with religion, mythology and folklore.This announcement is slightly delayed […]

]]> 3447729c09df3c2187a609b2766f48ce Lloyd Graham created the group Magic, ancient and modern https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1906712/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:08:49 -0500 0 a1822cfd7b8ae306094a682b14fb14e9 Lloyd Graham created the site Magic, ancient and modern https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1906711/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:40:14 -0500 0 c634f277a2b359803ac153f08c5db0fa Lloyd Graham's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1905113/ Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:50:32 -0500 0 a4d40499ec9873e919eb78ed1043374a Lloyd Graham deposited “Unhappily ever after…”: Three tales with dystopian endings from the Schools’ Collection in Ireland’s National Folklore Collection in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900150/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:10 -0400 Three folktales with unhappy endings were identified via targeted browsing of the NFC Schools’ Collection. The first two stories have here been translated (for the first time) from Irish, while the third – the only one present in two versions – was recorded in English. The first tale is a poignant tragedy; the second has an abrupt and defla…[Read more]

]]> 0 40305c2fe4718926ad2f9f8bb39bcbb0 Lloyd Graham deposited “Paper shoes and thick milk socks:” Some distinctively Irish types of oral colophon used to end folktales in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900149/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:06 -0400 This paper presents three distinctively Irish formulae that a seanchaí (story-teller) can use to signal the end of a folktale. Colophons 1 and 2 are in Irish, Colophon 3 in English; there is little evidence of any of these paradigms jumping the language barrier. Colophon 1, which is a sober and defensive, is strongly associated with Munster.…[Read more]

]]> 0 8eae1539bc8304977d0dec836092537e Lloyd Graham deposited A magical Irish-language folktale: A first translation and analysis in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900148/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:02 -0400 This paper provides a translation, structural analysis and commentary for an Irish-language wonder-tale in Ireland’s National Folklore Collection; the story describes the marvel-laden adventures of Neart (“Strength”), the only son of a southern Irish king. The complex yet coherent tale consists of eight largely independent narrative modules split…[Read more]

]]> 0 0148197686a7cbe367a20d4328a0e1f6 Lloyd Graham's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900067/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:44:13 -0400 0 6a2d7f2a4883a03cf85df885d9af5eb4 Lloyd Graham deposited “Unhappily ever after…”: Three tales with dystopian endings from the Schools’ Collection in Ireland’s National Folklore Collection https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900066/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:25:01 -0400 Three folktales with unhappy endings were identified via targeted browsing of the NFC Schools’ Collection. The first two stories have here been translated (for the first time) from Irish, while the third – the only one present in two versions – was recorded in English. The first tale is a poignant tragedy; the second has an abrupt and defla…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ed9097a1135ff4b461d46e275abdbcb Lloyd Graham deposited “Paper shoes and thick milk socks:” Some distinctively Irish types of oral colophon used to end folktales https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900065/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:10:16 -0400 This paper presents three distinctively Irish formulae that a seanchaí (story-teller) can use to signal the end of a folktale. Colophons 1 and 2 are in Irish, Colophon 3 in English; there is little evidence of any of these paradigms jumping the language barrier. Colophon 1, which is a sober and defensive, is strongly associated with Munster.…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c910b8056d3461a563116e239fca30a Lloyd Graham deposited A magical Irish-language folktale: A first translation and analysis https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900063/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:56:59 -0400 This paper provides a translation, structural analysis and commentary for an Irish-language wonder-tale in Ireland’s National Folklore Collection; the story describes the marvel-laden adventures of Neart (“Strength”), the only son of a southern Irish king. The complex yet coherent tale consists of eight largely independent narrative modules split…[Read more]

]]> 0 22f5978aebfe03feb67fcdbadfeef253 Lloyd Graham's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899988/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:26:04 -0400 0 501c2a9dcf54451a31fe839a1f6275e1 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group Monsters and Monstrosity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895889/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:51 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb3a7e4699aa2517f6d482b4a1cc3dd5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895888/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:46 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 c50b4331cc6bc9004d1ebb9f7696d1a5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895887/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:45 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3fd02fd2d13370238516d1687ff58d5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895886/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3fd02fd2d13370238516d1687ff58d5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group Alchemy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895885/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 da9e750e714d81593c74b36ff1e8c2cd Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Medieval Mediterranean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895884/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:28 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d665c4cd1aced1fadab66623df55066 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895883/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:25 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d665c4cd1aced1fadab66623df55066 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895882/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:25 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5e609fcfe0d8906d2a2298a8fbbf3a7 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Byzantine Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895881/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:20 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e44d51780b62d0af606152f25f6eb38 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895880/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 e67cc1c3ae3f31d86a42d1bcc3be4366 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895807/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 02:11:32 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb8e4035af4c66549e8c1b749c6fa791 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895804/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:45:14 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 240488728ff74bc51aaa755175e9d6fe Lloyd Graham's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890035/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:30:54 -0400 0 28ce479c87b7bac9aa1e24de51e0fa2a Lloyd Graham deposited From Egyptian barque oracles to Artificial Swarm Intelligence via the Ouija (or wDA?) board in the group History of Games and Play https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889912/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:25 -0400 Ancient Egyptian barque oracles had a recent counterpart in the phenomenon of “table-turning”, an occult process experienced in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist séances. The séance table’s small-scale successor, the Talking Board, ensured that oracular locomotion persisted throughout the Twentieth Century; its best-known embodiment – the Ouija boa…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a94d50dedeeee064d4c9d0f345c2cf0 Lloyd Graham deposited From Egyptian barque oracles to Artificial Swarm Intelligence via the Ouija (or wDA?) board in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889911/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:24 -0400 Ancient Egyptian barque oracles had a recent counterpart in the phenomenon of “table-turning”, an occult process experienced in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist séances. The séance table’s small-scale successor, the Talking Board, ensured that oracular locomotion persisted throughout the Twentieth Century; its best-known embodiment – the Ouija boa…[Read more]

]]> 0 051f6a5f48dfdee7015e3e1a3fb13d23 Lloyd Graham deposited From Egyptian barque oracles to Artificial Swarm Intelligence via the Ouija (or wDA?) board in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889910/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Ancient Egyptian barque oracles had a recent counterpart in the phenomenon of “table-turning”, an occult process experienced in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist séances. The séance table’s small-scale successor, the Talking Board, ensured that oracular locomotion persisted throughout the Twentieth Century; its best-known embodiment – the Ouija boa…[Read more]

]]> 0 e955975c936ee155b8f44ace8fcb7e6d Lloyd Graham deposited From Egyptian barque oracles to Artificial Swarm Intelligence via the Ouija (or wDA?) board https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889855/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:21:06 -0400 Ancient Egyptian barque oracles had a recent counterpart in the phenomenon of “table-turning”, an occult process experienced in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist séances. The séance table’s small-scale successor, the Talking Board, ensured that oracular locomotion persisted throughout the Twentieth Century; its best-known embodiment – the Ouija boa…[Read more]

]]> 0 e403c7319e30d2cdee53f46d3aaacae1 Lloyd Graham's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889633/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:28:50 -0400 0 85d51b0fa4fa931f56e740d8d5cfacab Lloyd Graham's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888933/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:06:26 -0400 0 1aa7c4ffed8f762accc819485fd36fa2 Lloyd Graham deposited “Nessie”: An uncannily apt name for a serpentine water-monster in the group Monsters and Monstrosity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878839/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:01:32 -0500 The fabled water-monster of Loch Ness has been designated a member of the putative genus Nessiteras and is referred to affectionately in media reports by the feminine diminutive “Nessie.” This paper points out that, by pure serendipity, such Nessi- appellations recall the name of the Slavic nežit of eastern and central Europe and the Latin ness…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc1484e59741fb2ae2dd1a4112eb0bae Lloyd Graham deposited “Nessie”: An uncannily apt name for a serpentine water-monster in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878838/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:01:29 -0500 The fabled water-monster of Loch Ness has been designated a member of the putative genus Nessiteras and is referred to affectionately in media reports by the feminine diminutive “Nessie.” This paper points out that, by pure serendipity, such Nessi- appellations recall the name of the Slavic nežit of eastern and central Europe and the Latin ness…[Read more]

]]> 0 3cfe80f6ab3e0daa9c5ba8a9d7a0badf Lloyd Graham deposited “Nessie”: An uncannily apt name for a serpentine water-monster https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878793/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:04:36 -0500 The fabled water-monster of Loch Ness has been designated a member of the putative genus Nessiteras and is referred to affectionately in media reports by the feminine diminutive “Nessie.” This paper points out that, by pure serendipity, such Nessi- appellations recall the name of the Slavic nežit of eastern and central Europe and the Latin ness…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe05d131dbf615e3d88817711a4e04d0 Lloyd Graham deposited Cultural similarities between Ancient Egypt and Byzantium in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874106/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:01:42 -0500 This paper is intended as a joint tribute to the scholarship of Egyptologist Erik Hornung and Byzantinist Cyril Mango, both of whom recently passed away. Byzantine traits with obvious parallels in ancient Egyptian culture abound in Cyril Mango’s introduction to ‘The Oxford History of Byzantium’, and yet – both there and elsewhere – one looks in va…[Read more]

]]> 0 583841f4b8e693f6dbe639291041c6b8 Lloyd Graham deposited Cultural similarities between Ancient Egypt and Byzantium in the group Byzantine Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874105/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:01:38 -0500 This paper is intended as a joint tribute to the scholarship of Egyptologist Erik Hornung and Byzantinist Cyril Mango, both of whom recently passed away. Byzantine traits with obvious parallels in ancient Egyptian culture abound in Cyril Mango’s introduction to ‘The Oxford History of Byzantium’, and yet – both there and elsewhere – one looks in va…[Read more]

]]> 0 357b5f6e0ae480816f0c6b39c56d1e26 Lloyd Graham deposited Cultural similarities between Ancient Egypt and Byzantium https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874081/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:08:06 -0500 This paper is intended as a joint tribute to the scholarship of Egyptologist Erik Hornung and Byzantinist Cyril Mango, both of whom recently passed away. Byzantine traits with obvious parallels in ancient Egyptian culture abound in Cyril Mango’s introduction to ‘The Oxford History of Byzantium’, and yet – both there and elsewhere – one looks in va…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b5672dc57201ac771d31bbbed54da77 Lloyd Graham deposited Patriarchal Blood Rituals and the Vampire Archetype in the group Ritual Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869562/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:00:20 -0500 Correspondences can be identified between (on the one hand) androcentric cosmogonies, ancestral misogyny and tribal blood rituals, and (on the other) the classical paradigm of vampirism, especially in its literary and on-screen flowering. Specifically, the initiatory culture-hero and the archetypal vampire both confer a haematologically-mediated…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d7cf6cceb4983ff9dd183e1cc9e86a1 Lloyd Graham deposited Patriarchal Blood Rituals and the Vampire Archetype in the group Monsters and Monstrosity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869561/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:00:17 -0500 Correspondences can be identified between (on the one hand) androcentric cosmogonies, ancestral misogyny and tribal blood rituals, and (on the other) the classical paradigm of vampirism, especially in its literary and on-screen flowering. Specifically, the initiatory culture-hero and the archetypal vampire both confer a haematologically-mediated…[Read more]

]]> 0 0122084ca1176435ca92e8175f577f51 Lloyd Graham deposited Patriarchal Blood Rituals and the Vampire Archetype in the group Indigenous Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869560/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:00:09 -0500 Correspondences can be identified between (on the one hand) androcentric cosmogonies, ancestral misogyny and tribal blood rituals, and (on the other) the classical paradigm of vampirism, especially in its literary and on-screen flowering. Specifically, the initiatory culture-hero and the archetypal vampire both confer a haematologically-mediated…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa4bb31b5896acb37bb49ab664827373 Lloyd Graham deposited Patriarchal Blood Rituals and the Vampire Archetype in the group Horror https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869559/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:00:06 -0500 Correspondences can be identified between (on the one hand) androcentric cosmogonies, ancestral misogyny and tribal blood rituals, and (on the other) the classical paradigm of vampirism, especially in its literary and on-screen flowering. Specifically, the initiatory culture-hero and the archetypal vampire both confer a haematologically-mediated…[Read more]

]]> 0 238242c87cd8ce7b84290d6daed80ed0 Lloyd Graham deposited Patriarchal Blood Rituals and the Vampire Archetype in the group Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869558/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:00:03 -0500 Correspondences can be identified between (on the one hand) androcentric cosmogonies, ancestral misogyny and tribal blood rituals, and (on the other) the classical paradigm of vampirism, especially in its literary and on-screen flowering. Specifically, the initiatory culture-hero and the archetypal vampire both confer a haematologically-mediated…[Read more]

]]> 0 30d7bcf54b51fb68fd34f3f21a1f40b7 Lloyd Graham deposited Patriarchal Blood Rituals and the Vampire Archetype https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869546/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 21:44:52 -0500 Correspondences can be identified between (on the one hand) androcentric cosmogonies, ancestral misogyny and tribal blood rituals, and (on the other) the classical paradigm of vampirism, especially in its literary and on-screen flowering. Specifically, the initiatory culture-hero and the archetypal vampire both confer a haematologically-mediated…[Read more]

]]> 0 21af4f06c087caa3be2ebaed2b85910e Lloyd Graham deposited Counterparts of ancient Egyptian maat in other cultures in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868891/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 03:00:36 -0500 This paper surveys potential counterparts of the ancient Egyptian concept of mAat (maat) from other cultures and summarises such cross-cultural studies as have already been completed. Its scope ranges from antiquity to the present day and across Europe, Africa, the Near East, India, China, Australia and the Americas. Paradigms that appear to…[Read more]

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