deephistory

	THE DEEP HISTORY OF STORIES CONFERENCE 2007

March 2007 “The Deep History of Stories” abstracts. These abstracts have all been accepted, but it should be noted that a number of participants will only be able to attend if they can secure funding. The conference organiser, Emily Lyle, welcomes comments and queries which should be sent to:e.lyle@ed.ac.uk

Participant	Title - please click on title to read abstract
Nick Allen Oxford University, England, UK.	The Dyu-Heimdall comparison and the Rígsþula
Karen Bek-Pedersen University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK	A myth in folktale clothing?
Yuri E. Berezkin St Petersburg University, Russia	Out-of-Africa and further along the Coast: African – South Asian – Australian mythological parallels
Wim van Binsbergen Leiden, The Netherlands	A new Paradise myth? An assessment of Stephen Oppenheimer's thesis of the South East Asian origin of West Asian core myths, including most of the mythological contents of Genesis 1-11
Grigory Bondarenko University of Ulster (Coleraine), Northern Ireland, UK.	The five primeval trees in Early Irish, Gnostic, and Manichaean cosmologies
Zenia Broch University of Copenhagen, Denmark.	The origins of Devil-worshippers: myth, political identity and the struggle for survival of ethnic minorities in the Middle East.
David Buyaner University of Frankfurt, Germany.	The myth of the bridge of separator: a trace of shamanistic practices in Zoroastrianism
John Colarusso McMaster University, Canada	Indo-European proto-myths: the Storm God, the Good King, the Mighty Hunter
Duan Qing Peking University, Beijing, PR China.	AvalokiteÊvara: a cult of Khotanese Buddhist mythology
Guillaume Ducoeur Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, France	The flood myth in Sanskrit literature
Steve Farmer Palo Alto, CA, USA	Methodological problems in studies of the global distribution of myths
Maxim Fomin University of Ulster (Coleraine), Northern Ireland, UK.	The “Cloth-covering” motif in the stories of early Ireland and early India
Gu Zhengkun Peking University, Beijing, PR China	Taoist and Buddhist myths: between fiction and reality
Barbara Hillers Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA	A Story of East and West: The Gifts of the Little People in Ireland and Japan
Alvard Jivanyan Yerevan State University, Armenia.	The spread of spinners' tales in the Christian Near East: stories of speech initiation
Trudy S. Kawami Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York, USA.	The lion and the bull at Persepolis: Iranian myth or political symbol?
Victoria Kryukova Peter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia	Gates of the Zoroastrian paradise
*John Leavitt* Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada	Linguistic methods and depth of focus in comparative mythology
Emily Lyle University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK	The narrative treating the loss and recovery of the young goddess
Kenneth Lymer Museum of London Archaeology Service, London, UK	The Light Fantastick: rock art, visions and the myth of solarism in Central Asia
Licia Masoni University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.	What does the Clever Girl have to say about history?
Kazuo Matsumura Wako University, Tokyo, Japan.	Gender bias in Indo-European mythology?
Dean Miller Chicago, USA	Legends of Hair: Tracing the Tonsorial Story of Indo-European King and Hero
Louise S. Milne Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.	Mermaids and dreams
Armen Petrosyan, National Academy of Armenia,Yerevan, Armenia	*The Dānu-s and the Hner(t)-s*
Daniel G. Prior Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.	Iranian mythology and the Eurasian folklore environment: testing the limits of comparative reconstruction
James R. Russell Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA	The sense of no ending
Adela Sandness St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada	“Having Beautiful Wings”: On fire, water and the principle of life in the Rg-Veda
Robert A. Segal University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK	Are hero myths monolithic?
John Shaw University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK	Variants of a Gaelic eschatological folktale, Celtic cosmology and Dumézil's “three realms”
Shi Yang Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China	Myth as sacred local history: mythology among Mangyan Filipino indigenous people
Hanna Spychalska University of Wrocław, Poland.	Typical types of motifs in the recently collected mythological folktales from the Kurpiowski Green Forest versus the international motif-index of folk-literature
Maria Magdolna Tatàr Oslo	The myth of Epona in Eastern Europe
Sarolta Tatar Director of Exhibitions for the European Workshop Cultural Association, Hungary.	The chariot of Artemis
Yaroslav Vassilkov Russia	The verbal formula “undying fame” and its visual parallels
Eric Venbrux Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands	Throwing coins, rings and other valuable objects into the water: a philological and anthropological study of an ancient ritual gesture and its accompanying stories
Andrew Wiseman University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.	Birds of a Feather: The Tale of the Eagle of Lochtreig
Michael Witzel Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA	Slaying the dragon across Eurasia
Nick Wyatt University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.	Chasing the dragon
Hitoshi Yamada Tohoku University, Sendai/Japan.	Mythical little people in Taiwan: do they imply the existence of Negritos?
Nataliya Yanchevskaya Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA	How a bear becomes a serpent: towards more certainty in reconstructing Old Slavic mythology

Andrew Wiseman University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Birds of a Feather: The Tale of the Eagle of Lochtreig

Andrew Wiseman
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.