The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother

The Goddess is all around us: Her face is reflected in the burgeoning new growth of every ensuing spring; her power is evident in the miracle of conception and childbirth and in the newborn’s cry as it searches for the nurturing breast; we glimpse her in the alluring beauty of youth, in the incredible power of sexual attraction, in the affection of family gatherings, and in the gentle caring of loved ones as they leave the mortal world. The Goddess is with us in the everyday miracles of life, growth, and death which always have surrounded us and always will, and this ubiquity speaks to the enduring presence and changing masks of the universal power people have always recognized in their lives. Such power is the Goddess, at least in part, and through its workings we may occasionally catch a glimpse of the divine.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1094/thumbnail.jp

Gods, Heroes, & Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain

The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer\u27s belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths.In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles\u27 unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote The Wife of Bath\u27s Tale in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology.Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology. [From the publisher]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1066/thumbnail.jp

Developing a Membership and Assimilation Process for Summerlin Community Baptist Church, Las Vegas, Nevada

One of the cultural traits of the twenty-first century America is mobility. For various reasons of work, retirement, or military service, people are on the move. Las Vegas is no exception to this rule. What was a boomtown in Las Vegas from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century came crashing to a halt. Various churches across denominational lines lost 30 percent of their congregants and finances. As Las Vegas continues its slow climb out of the economic downturn, churches have to learn how to adapt and make first-time guests long-term members. It is with this cultural context in mind that this project has been developed

Archaeological Data and Small Projects: A Case Study from the Pyla-Koustopetria Archaeological Project on Cyprus

A case study in how small projects use digital tools

Introduction to an Open Community Infrasound Dataset from the Actively Erupting Sakurajima Volcano, Japan

Active volcanoes are significant sources of seismic and acoustic radiation. Extensive work has shown that infrasound is an effective tool to study and monitor active volcanoes. Infrasound is now a regular tool utilized by volcano observatories to aid in volcano monitoring and hazard mitigation. Infrasound‐based studies are able to provide important information on eruption dynamics and to develop quantitative models of volcanic eruptions. In addition, volcanoes provide excellent acoustic sources for atmospheric propagation studies and can be used to infer atmospheric dynamics and structure (see Johnson and Ripepe, 2011; Fee and Matoza, 2013 for recent reviews on volcano infrasound). The number of infrasound sensors and studies is also increasing rapidly, including those deployed as part of the USArray Transportable (seismic) Array. Lastly, seismic and acoustic records provide complementary information on both volcanic and nonvolcanic sources and elastic wave propagation in the Earth and atmosphere (Arrowsmith et al., 2010)

Isolator:state of print

Isolator is a papercraft head, 45 x 45 x 45 cm. Isolator was created for State Of Print. It was designed and produced by David Lyons, Ken Fee and Cat Forsyth from Abertay University and Paul Harrison from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. It is based on Hugo Gernsback’s Isolator Helmet designed in 1925 and represents an ‘alternate history’ strand in the State of Print.State Of Print is an artist collective and an artistic investigation. State Of Print asks the question ‘What is essential to making a state?’ Much in the spirit of Plato’s assertion that a philosopher should be king, our answer is ‘art (with an emphasis on printmaking)’ is essential to the identify of a state.  <br/

A serological investigation of caseous lymphadenitis in four flocks of sheep

A double antibody sandwich ELISA developed by ID-DLO, Lelystad to detect Corynebocterium pseudotuberculosis infection was used on 329 sheep from four pedigree Suffolk flocks in which clinical cases of caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) had occurred. At subsequent necropsy, typical CLA lesions were seen in 133 sheep, and the diagnosis was confirmed on culture. Lesions were most commonly seen in lungs (n = 46), parotid lymph nodes (n = 44), prescapular lymph nodes (n = 38) and mediastinal lymph nodes (n = 31). The sensitivity of the ELISA test for detecting culture-positive sheep was 0.88, while the specificity of the test was 0.55. The antibody ELISA detected 87.5 per cent of sheep that had CLA lesions restricted to internal organs only. It was concluded that the ELISA test has a valuable role in detecting sheep with both clinical and subclinical CLA