when metaphors kill

David Hyland-Wood @prototypo

November 2015

When Metaphors Kill

SimileA is like B

“Mary is like a seething volcano”

MetaphorA is B

“Bob is a tiger”

Atum

Shu Tefnut

Geb Nut

Osiris Isis Nephthys Set

Atum

air water

earth sky

regeneration throne, protector

death war, chaos

“the complete one”, finisher of the world

TefnutShu

Geb Nut

Osiris Isis Nephthys Set

cleft palate

scoliosis

Köhler disease (mild clubfoot)

Missing bones (hypophalangism)

“More than six-in-ten of the evangelical leaders surveyed (64%) say there is a natural conflict between being an evangelical Christian and living in a modern society, about twice the

portion who say there is no such conflict (33%).”

“Global Survey of Evangelical Protestant Leaders” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (22 June 2011) http://www.pewforum.org/2011/06/22/

global-survey-beliefs/, retrieved 7 Dec 2015.

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Columns https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinou/133982614/ Tinou Bao License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Kanizsa triangle

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Medicine Man Dance Sepia

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Cura en Momos

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Gathering of shamans on Olkhon

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Giza pyramids https://www.flickr.com/photos/gracewong/93631410/ Tommy Wong License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus

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Tutankhamun’s mask (front)

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Tutankhamun’s mask (back)

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Osiris https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_Osiris_edit1.svg Jeff Dahl License: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:GNU_Free_Documentation_License

Anubis https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anubis_standing.svg Jeff Dahl License: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:GNU_Free_Documentation_License

CT scan of Tutankhamun’s mummy

http://blog.education.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/22/new-view-of-king-tut/ "Photograph courtesy the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt, and National Geographic"

Pentecostal service

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Creation Museum photo

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References

Tutankhamun’s genetic disabilities and family history

Zahi Hawass et al, Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family, JAMA, February 17, 2010, Vol 303, No. 7, http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=185393

Quotation regarding evangelical leaders

“Global Survey of Evangelical Protestant Leaders” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (22 June 2011) http://www.pewforum.org/2011/06/22/global-survey-beliefs/, retrieved 7 Dec 2015.

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