La scrittura di Calvino assomiglia a quella di Lucrezio in quanto è scrittura cosmica, che intende non solo descrivere l'universo ma anche riprendere alcuni suoi principi fondatori nella loro forma stessa. Una scrittura cosmogonica, "metafora della sostanza pulviscolare del mondo" (Lezioni americane), che concepisce il vuoto come luogo in cui tutto...
Published in Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History
This article investigates the fragments of the Babyloniaca of Berossus on creation. The following aspects are considered: the narrative structure of the book and how the account of creation is introduced, with broader implications for the cultural claims of Berossus and his peers; the relation between Berossus and previous Mesopotamian traditions, ...
Colombia is a multicultural, multiethnic country, it is still inhabited by about 103 Indigenous Peoples, and 65 native languages are also preserved. The objective of the study was to understand the meaning of the game for the Misak Indigenous community of La Marquesa shelter, located in the department of Cauca. The study followed the logic of actio...
Published in Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics
AbstractA mathematical model of the early stage of the formation of interstellar clouds resulting from the interaction of oppositely directed cosmic particle flows and evolution of the clouds into planetary systems is proposed. An important role in the evolution is played by mechanical energy dissipation caused mainly by particle collisions. The si...
Published in Apeiron
Anaximenes is usually considered to be a material monist recognizing transparent atmospheric air as a principle (ἀρχή). In the cosmogonic explanation of the origin of the earth and the heavenly bodies, the Greek term ἀήρ turns out to mean rather ‘opaque damp mist’. However, Not only does it accord with archaic usage, but also with how it was used i...
Les textes zoroastriens de l’Antiquité tardive portent les marques d’un intérêt pour l’ordonnancement du monde animal. Le texte moyen-perse du Bundahišn présente, en son chapitre XIII, une structure théorique de mise en ordre ainsi qu’une énumération des espèces animales. L’analyse de cette structure formée de lexèmes de catégorisation horizontale ...
Starting from a non-dichotomous perspective between culture and nature, a repertoire of eight presumably Muisca chants from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is studied. These chants are in diverse processes of appropriation and reterritorialization by current Muisca communities, which are directly supported by the author. The way to approach this reper...
Published in Trends in Classics
The author of Derveni Papyrus consider that the poem he commentates is like a riddle used by Orpheus to make it understandable to only a few. In our terms, he considers the poem an encoded text that he needs to decode in order to recover its true meaning. So he had to imagine a code in the text that once ‘decoded’ would yield the ‘true’ meaning tha...
Une des caractéristiques des traditions orales polynésiennes tient à l’importance qu’y occupent les récitations généalogiques, dont certaines s’étendent sur plus de cent générations. Celles de chefs ou de groupes sociaux éminents sont souvent enchâssées dans des cosmologies mettant en scène des forces naturelles présentées comme des ancêtres. Inver...
Published in Rhizomata
The aim of this article is to reopen the rather neglected issue of the nature and internal structure of the Sphairos as it appears in Empedocles’ account of the cycle of the cosmos. The Sphairos is generally understood as a result of the mixing of the four elements, or ‘roots’ at the moment of the greatest dominance of Love. Based on an analysis of...
