If such a mytheme is set into action as ritual, it is usual to see a pair of sacrificial children laid in the earth to encourage the green growth.

The mytheme of the Judgement of Paris naturally offered artists the opportunity to depict a sort of beauty contest, with three beautiful female nudes trying to appease a male judge, but the myth, at least since Euripides, rather concerns a choice among the gifts that each goddess embodies.

The mytheme of Endymion being not dead but endlessly asleep, which was proverbial ( the proverb-Endymionis somnum dormire, " to sleep the sleep of Endymion ") ensured that scenes of Endymion and Selene were popular subjects for sculpted sarcophagi in Late Antiquity, when after-death existence began to be a heightened concern.

The unitary mytheme, by contrast, is the equivalent in myth of the phonemes, morphemes, and sememes into which structural linguistics divides language, the smallest possible units of meaning within a language system.

This idea is somewhat disputed by Roman Jakobson, who takes the mytheme to be a concept or phoneme which is without significance in itself but whose significance might be shown by sociological analysis.

Lev Manovich also uses the terms seme and mytheme in his book, The Language of New Media to describe aspects of culture that computer images enter into dialog with.

He can foretell the future, but, in a mytheme familiar to several cultures, will change his shape to avoid having to ; he will answer only to someone who is capable of capturing him.

Danaë was childless and to keep her so, he imprisoned her in a bronze chamber open to the sky in the courtyard of his palace: This mytheme is also connected to Ares, Oenopion, Eurystheus, etc.

In the study of mythology, a mytheme is the essential kernel of a myth — an irreducible, unchanging element, a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways —" bundled " was Claude Lévi-Strauss's image — or linked in more complicated relationships, like a molecule in a compound.

Claude Lévi-Strauss, who gave the term wide circulation, wrote, " If one wants to establish a parallel between structural linguistics and the structural analysis of myths, the correspondence is established, not between mytheme and word but between mytheme and phoneme ".

The term " mytheme " is analogous to, if not virtually the same in " signification " ( a favorite term of Roland Barthes, another famous structuralist ) as " meme ", a word coined by Richard Dawkins in his book, The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ).

Yet Janda ( 2010 ) considers the connection with " foam " genuine, identifying the myth of Aphrodite rising out of the waters after Cronus defeats Uranus as a mytheme of Proto-Indo-European age.

The decipherment of Hittite mythical texts, notably the Kingship in Heaven text first presented in 1946, with its castration mytheme, offers in the figure of Kumarbi an Anatolian parallel to Hesiod's Uranus-Cronus conflict.

Alternatively, the derivation pēnē and lepō ( λέπω ), " peel ", because of the shroud-unweaving mytheme, has been suggested.

The mytheme of Garuda carrying off an elephant that was battling a Crocodile appears in two Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata ( I. 1353 ) and the Ramayana ( III. 39 ).

They were exposed on Mount Cithaeron, but, in a familiar mytheme, were found and brought up by a shepherd.

In the catabasis mytheme, heroes — such as Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, Dante, Dionysus and Psyche — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.

Hippolytus mytheme: Iole, daughter of the king of Oechalia, was beloved by Heracles, sacked her city, killed her family, and took her away by force as his concubine.

For the mytheme of a woman taking revenge on the man who does not answer her feelings by falsely accusing him of sexual abuse, see also Phaedra, Stheneboea, Tenes, Phoenix and Eunostus.

Robert Graves suggested that Aphrodite had been substituted for Artemis in this retelling of the mytheme of the eponymous Erymanthus.

The mytheme of Heracles contesting with Apollo for the tripod appears in vase-paintings older than the oldest written literature.

The version of the Golden Legend did not relate how Erasmus fled to Mount Lebanon and survived on what ravens brought him to eat, an interesting pre-Christian mytheme.

Control of the government -- such control as there was and such government as there was -- passed into the hands of Joseph Mobutu, chief of staff of the Congolese army.

The Irish Volunteers — the smaller of the two forces resulting from the September 1914 split over support for the British war effort — set up a " headquarters staff " that included Patrick Pearse as Director of Military Organisation, Joseph Plunkett as Director of Military Operations and Thomas MacDonagh as Director of Training.

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

* 1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner ( later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation ).

Mario Vázquez Raña, a Mexican media magnate, with a nominal American minority partner, Houston real estate developer Joseph Russo, purchased UPI out of bankruptcy for $ 40 million, losing millions during his short tenure, and firing numerous high level staff.

When Joseph set his walking staff on the ground to sleep, it miraculously took root, leafed out, and blossomed as the " Glastonbury Thorn ".

Joseph Swetnam, writing in 1615, distinguishes between the " quarterstaff " of in length and the " long staff " of.

By 1930, Maranzano ’ s chief aides were Bonanno ( as underboss and chief of staff ), Tommy Lucchese and Joseph Magliocco.

It has been suggested by Joseph Campbell that the symbol of snakes coiled around a staff is an ancient representation of Kundalini physiology.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

Joseph is said to have arrived in Glastonbury and stuck his staff into the ground, when it flowered miraculously into the Glastonbury Thorn.

J. D. Webster, later General Webster and chief of staff at the Battle of Shiloh, and Dr. Charles H. Ray of Galena, Illinois through Horace Greeley convinced Joseph Medill of Cleveland's Leader to become managing editor.

In 1911 he enrolled at the St Petersburg Polytechnic, and also joined the editorial staff of Pravda, the underground Bolshevik newspaper of which Joseph Stalin was editor.

* Another member of the production staff appeared in the film as well: associate producer Paul Jones appeared as " Dear Joseph ", the late husband of " Miz Zeffie ", in a photograph in which the man's expression changes.

Four Nobel laureates are currently among its staff – Sir Andre Geim ( Physics, 2010 ), Sir Kostya Novoselov ( Physics, 2010 ), Sir John Sulston ( Physiology and Medicine, 2002 ) and Joseph Stiglitz ( Economics, 2001 ).

According to a historical marker on U. S. Highway 278 west of Conyers, Major General Joseph Wheeler of the Confederate States Army and part of his staff were captured by Union troops pursuing Jefferson Davis on May 9, 1865.

Poster for the WPA stage adaptation of It Can't Happen Here, October 27, 1936 Written with the goal of hurting Long's chances in the 1936 election, Lewis's novel outfits President Berzelius Windrip with a private militia, concentration camps, and a chief of staff who sounds like Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

On May 24, 1862, during the pursuit of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston up the Peninsula, when Gen. Barnard and his staff were reconnoitering a potential crossing point on the Chickahominy River, they stopped, and Custer overheard his commander mutter to himself, " I wish I knew how deep it is.

In 2002, The Van Riebeeck Society published Sir Graham Bower's Secret History of the Jameson Raid and the South African Crisis, 1895 – 1902 ( Edited by Deryck Schreuder and Jeffrey Butler, Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, Second Series No. 33 ), adding to growing historical evidence that the imprisonment and judgement upon the Raiders at the time of their trial was unjust, in view of what has appeared, in later historical analysis, to have been the calculated political manoeuvres by Joseph Chamberlain and his staff to hide his own involvement and knowledge of the Raid.

In addition to other posts, Hodgkins served as aide de-camps on Illinois Governor Joseph W. Fifer's staff, holding the rank of Colonel.

Greendale's plan was designed between 1936 and 1937 by a staff headed by Joseph Crane, Elbert Peets, Harry Bentley, and Walter C. Thomas for a site that had formerly consisted of of farmland.

The Joseph Addison tragedy was performed by the staff officers for a “ very numerous and splendid audience ,” including many officers and several of their wives.

praecox ), which flowers both in December and in spring, were formerly highly valued in England, on account of the legend that the tree was originally the staff of Joseph of Arimathea.

Union General Joseph Hooker ( seated 2nd to right ) and his staff, 1863.