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A Study on the Goddess Demeter in The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (<데메테르 찬가>에 구현된 '어머니 데메테르'의 특성과 그 신화사적 위상)

  • Jeong, Jinhee
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.51
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    • pp.73-101
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    • 2018
  • This essay deals with The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, a aetiological myth about the Eleusis Mysteria. The narrative of the hymn shows how Demeter, the goddess of grain, became the deity of the Mysteria. In the hymn, Demeter is characterized as a mother: She is the mother of Persephone and the motherlike nurse of Demophone. As the mother of Persephone and Demophone, the roles of are nursing and mediating. She care her children and linked the earth and the world below, the heaven of gods and the earth of mortals. Demeter the deity of the Mysteria by a mother. The and the maternity of Demeter is connected with patriarchal politics. Demeter in the hymn is not so much the goddess who derived her character from The Great Mother as the goddess who had been characterized the influence of Greek-patriarchy.

Study on the Material Characteristic of Baekeuikwaneum (the White-Robed Buddhist Goddess of Mercy) Wall-Painting of Bogwangmyungjun in Wibongsa, Wanju (완주 위봉사보광명전 백의관음벽화의 재료학적 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Young Sun;Lee, Sang Jin;Choi, In Sook;Jin, Byung Hyuk;Lee, Hwa Soo
    • Journal of Conservation Science
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.55-65
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    • 2014
  • On this studyed, the Wibongsa BoGwangMyungJun BaekEuiKwanEum wall-painting was conservation of Scientific research ahead. This study carried out Grain size analysis, SEM-EDS, XRD, P-XRF, FT-IR and ultrasonic exploration for wall-painting. As a result, walls layer used to mineral particles size was mixing the medium-texture and fine texture. painting layers pigments used to base paintings was ocher, white pigments was hobun, red pigments was suckganju, green pigments was suckruk. Also BackuiKannon wall-painting walls damage reason of that was long-term physical shocks. painting layers damage was include detachment or powders. it is affected by temperature and humidity. Therefore in the future conservation of wall-paintings through scientific analysis based on such data, conservation processing is performed through the preservation and enhance the stability of the paintings as a basis for the conservation of management can be utilized.