A comparative Anthropology and traditional music of the Berber and galician-portuguese peoples. A cultural approach between the West, PreIslam and north African Islam
José Carlos Rios CAMACHO
Original title: Antropologia comparada e música tradicional dos povos berbere e galego-português. Um achegamento cultural entre o Ocidente, o Pré- Islão e o Islão norteafricano
Published in Relations between History and Literature in Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Anthropology, Berber, Galician-Portuguese, Music, Myths.
The intentions and the short account of this anthropologic preliminary essay are the result of our work about some directs observations of the social and cultural-musical realities at the Moroccan Rif in the second semester of the 1990 year. At the same time, we attempt to give some general notes about the Ancient-Medieval History, literature (the legends and myths) and the cultures of the Berber and Galician-Portuguese peoples, based in a vast Atlantic culture which will spread out the entire quadrant from Galicia-Ireland-Britain to the north-African Rif.
The "cinocephalus" and the "úlfheðnar": the representation of the wolf-warrior in the Historia Langobardorum (VIII century) and in the Egils saga (c. 1230)
Renan Marques Birro and Jardel Modenesi Fiorio
Original title: Os Cynocephalus e os Úlfheðnar: a representação do guerreiro canídeo na Historia Langobardorum (séc. VIII) e na Egils saga (c. 1230)
Published in The chivalry and the art of war in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Icelanders, Lombards, Middle Ages, Myths, War.
The allegorical interpretation of myths: from origins to Plato
Loraine OLIVEIRA
Original title: A interpretação alegórica de mitos: das origens a Platão
Published in Manifestations of the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Allegory, Interpretation, Myths, Philosophical discourse, truth.
The aim of this paper is to present some of the main aspects of allegory understood as hermeneutical practice. Allegory takes as certain that the text to be interpreted possesses some truth content. At the same time that the first allegorical interpretations of Homer and Hesiod appear, there also appear harsh criticisms of their poems. Such criticisms can be grouped under two main headings: the demythologization of the cosmos and the immorality of gods. Plato has behind him two centuries of disputes about the meaning of the poems, and clearly stands against allegorical practice, even though he does not abandon myths. What happens is that he displaces the truth content of the text: truth is not to be sought in poetry anymore, but in philosophical discourse.
