This book of empirical studies analyzes examples of televisual shared universes since the 1960s to understand how the nature of televised serial...

Televisual Shared Universes by Princess  O'Nika Auguste aka The Jamet Scholar

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Televisual Shared Universes

This book of empirical studies analyzes examples of televisual shared universes since the 1960s to understand how the nature of televised serial narratives and network corporate policies have long created shared storyworlds. While there has been much discussion about shared cinematic universes and comic book universes, the concept has had...

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A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology

Greek mythology is simply swarming with strange and wonderful characters: mortals, gods, demigods, nymphs and monsters – so many, in fact, that it can be tricky to recall who is who exactly.

A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology offers a one-stop compendium of more than a hundred of these characters.

This guide organises the population of Greek...

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From A Dark Place

From A Dark Place is an autobiographical collection of poetry with a lot of darkness; there are constant glimmers of light and hope. The glimmers of light within the darkness illustrate lucidity and resilience. The collection is not overwhelmingly dark but has soft images that demonstrate hope and light. The collection leaves the reader with...

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Writing

The title says it all; the essay is re-examining consent in the Gospel of Luke and Xena: Warrior Princess.

This essay is about the Magi Motif in Hercules the Legendary Journeys and Xena : the Warrior Princess.

Myths and Monarchs: The Divergent Legacies of Puduhepa and Sammu-Ramat

Have you heard of Puduhepa and Sammu-Ramat? If not, you should know that they were two of the most powerful queens in the Ancient Near East. Although they lived centuries apart and belonged to two entirely different civilisations, both of these remarkable women wielded immense power and successfully navigated male-dominated royal hierarchies. In my essay for Historians Magazine, titled "Myths and Monarchs: The Divergent Legacies of Puduhepa and Sammu-Ramat", I compare and contrast their...

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I took part in this conference, presenting my talk, She Who Paints His Eyes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg1V9uLWOCI

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Wrote this years ago and found it on MySpace.

Summary

Just some ramblings about Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast.

When I was younger, I loved reading fairy tales and watching the Disney versions of them. In fact, I still enjoy them. Some of my favourites were Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Frog Prince, Thumbelina, and, of course, Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella.

As I grew older and continued reading and watching television, however, I began to notice something interesting. Out...

Was God Ever Imagined as a Woman? Asherah, the Divine Feminine, and the

What if the Bible itself contains traces of a much more complicated understanding of the divine one in which God can be described as a mother, compared to a woman searching for something precious, and even imagined as a mother hen gathering her children beneath her wings?

And what if, behind the biblical condemnation of goddess worship, there lies the memory of an older religious world in which Yahweh may have been worshipped alongside a female divine figure known as Asherah?

These questions...

The Council of Nicaea (325 AD) addressed the divinity of Christ and formulated the Nicene Creed. The Council of Laodicea (~363 AD) made an early list of Bible books but excluded Revelation. The whole New Testament canon was officially set at the Council of Carthage in 397 AD.

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