when metaphors kill
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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
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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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