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Design of small reservoirs and flood protection
Pikna, Martin ; Kozák, Jan (referee) ; Duchan, David (advisor)
The diploma thesis deals with the design of the flood protection of the village Hrušky (Vyškov district). The hydraulic analysis of the water flow on the rivers Litava (river station km 19,460 - 20,928) and Rakovec (river station km 0,000 - 0,638) was done. The hydraulic analysis was performed on the Q5, Q20 and Q100 flows. For analysis was used a 2D numerical flow model in HEC-RAS 5.0.6. Based on results was designed a flood protection including a dry reservoir. The input data for the diploma thesis was the 2013 study „Litava II – přírodě blízká protipovodňová opatření a obnova přirozené hydromorfologie a retenční kapacity toku a nivy v úseku ř. km 16,0 (Újezd u Brna) až ř. km 24,0 (Slavkov u Brna)“. The diploma thesis was processed as a real project in the design office of Regioprojekt Brno, s.r.o.
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Ideology of Czech Christmas
Bečka, Hynek ; Chlup, Radek (advisor) ; Kozák, Jan (referee)
My thesis is about the ritual of Christmas, focusing mostly on modern, Czech Christmas. I start by presenting the radical change which Christmas has gone through since 19th century, and then I proceed to the analysis and interpretation of the contemporary form of the ritual. Based on my own observations of malls and faire markets during Christmas time I discuss the symbols used in those environments, interpretating them with the help of Victor Turner's distinction between the normative and the sensory poles of symbols. I continue with an analysis of gift giving, probably the most important part of whole ritual. Here I rely on the interpretation of James Carrier and several other anthropologists. I show Christmas as a ritual maintaining the relationship between family and commercial world. I also mention other possible themes that concern Christmas, such as their relationship to the modern national state and the various modes in which Christmas may evoke what Victor Turner calls communitas.
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Cunning Tricks in Greek Religious Thought
Procházková, Helena ; Chlup, Radek (advisor) ; Kozák, Jan (referee)
The aim of the present thesis is to introduce different types of cunning intelligence in Greek mythology and their role in the broader context of Greek thought. The subject matter is explored using representative mythic figures and situations. The pivotal problem is the relationship between cunning tricks and both cultural and divine order. The first part is concerned with greek expressions connected to cunning tricks and their possible meanings. The subsequent section deals with the forms of cunning as they can be seen in the charecters of Hermes and Odysseus and considers the way in which cunning tricks can be beneficial to order. A comparison with other cunning characters and myths of origins of rituals follow in the final chapter. It concludes with determining in which context a cunning trick is acceptable. In conclusion it is argued that cunning intelligence bears a culturally constitutive function and may even be beneficial in existing order. However, its positive role is manifested maily in the primordial state of the universe when cultural order is not clearly delimited. Cunning intelligence always remains ambivalent and a paradox. Its ambiguity is most apparent in clearly defined and structured cultural order.
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Religious Legitimisation of the Political Power in Rome in the Point of View of the Ancient Historiographers
Vanča, Matouš ; Antalík, Dalibor (advisor) ; Kozák, Jan (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on techniques used by the politicians of ancient Rome for religious legitimisation of their political power and their status. Its aim is to collect evidence of different forms of this phenomenon which can be found in the works of ancient historians. The initial definition of the topic and field of research, i.e. relations between religious and political spheres in ancient Rome, is followed by a short characteristic of sources (Greek and Roman historiographers and their works). Next three casuistical chapters analyse evidences of particular forms of religious legitimisation of political power. First of these chapters concentrates on the use of religion in political rhetoric; the second and longest one deals with religious prosecution and political blasphemy which can be considered as two of the most interesting phenomena in this topic; the third chapter contains specific examples of how religion was used in the long-term public presentation of concrete political personalities. Before proceeding to the last chapter, there is a short description of the change of situation at the beginning of principate, when old forms of religious legitimisation disappeared and were replaced by different ones. Last chapter focuses on the possibilities of analysis in the field of...
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Deadly Banquets in Old Norse Literature
Nováková, Barbora ; Kozák, Jan (advisor) ; Antalík, Dalibor (referee)
The purpose of this study is to presents set of motifs (main characters, events, typical features etc.) that are connected witch deadly banquets in Old Norse literature. It should provide the reader with a basic overview about the function and depiction of banquets in this culture and help him understand why these inverted feasts occur in Old Norse myths so often. The interpretative framework is comprised of fenomenological theories of Mircea Eliade and psychological interpretations of myths represented by works of C. G. Jung and Joseph Campbell. With a help of these theories is the deadly banquet interpreted as a depiction of Otherworld.
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Veles: Slavic deity in comparative perspective
Šebetovská, Michaela ; Lemeškin, Ilja (advisor) ; Kozák, Jan (referee)
VELES SLAVIC DEITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Bc. Michaela Šebetovská ABSTRACT The thesis deals with Slavic god Veles. The emphasis is put on primary textual sources about him. With regard to their fragmentary nature, there is a need to make use of comparative material. Informations about other Indo-European gods and beings from Slavic folklore similar to Veles are used as well. The purpose is not only to understand isolated functions, but also connections between them. This seems as the best way how to gain the idea of the whole character of Veles as the Slavs before Christianity could see it.
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Sacrifice and initiation in the myths of Ódinn
Kozák, Jan ; Chlup, Radek (advisor) ; Antalík, Dalibor (referee) ; Starý, Jiří (referee)
This dissertation deals with the interpretation of four myths from early medieval Scandinavia, in which the main role is played by the god Óðinn. All four myths narrate how he achieved a state of permanent increase of his numinous knowledge. Based on the fact that the outcome of all of the narratives is the acquisition of the Mead of Poetry (or its equivalent), they can be percieved as "four reports on the same event". The analysis of myths itself has been executed in two steps: firstly the separate inquiry of the two more central myths and introduction of the other two followed by thorough analysis of the four together. All four myths demonstrate to a certain degree a presence of motifs and structures associated with the religious phenomena of sacrifice and initiation. By the means of said analysis the study reviews the systematic relations of the sacrificial and initiatory structures and postulates a common core which is subsequently named "monomyth".
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Navajo Ritual Healing
Galovič, Roman ; Chlup, Radek (advisor) ; Kozák, Jan (referee)
In this paper I deal with two traditions of ritual healing in Navajoland, namely with the traditional Navajo ritual healing and the peyote healing of Native American Church. I introduce them in three dimensions when I consecutively describe a cosmological framework, a social organization and a specific example of a ritual. At the core of my analysis is the grid & group method that was developed by Mary Douglas, when I look for the correlations between cosmological notions and social structures, and the ways they are established by the ritual. This way I point out how the colonial oppression weakened community ties and created ground for the growth of Native American Church in Navajoland, because NAC is able to offer existential answers for life in such a desolate space. However this does not mean that the Traditional Navajo healing was wiped out by colonialism, and both traditions continue to exist side by side and are quite often combined by particular patients. I offer a way to interpret this medical plurality when I fuse Mary Douglas' method with certain traditional Navajo notions and psychological analyses by Friedrich Nietzsche. In this view, every person would be permanently situated in socially and phenomenologically heterogenic space, and particular healing traditions would heal different social...
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Water Symbolism in Christianity and Islam according to Mircea Eliade
Bajerová, Adéla ; Lyčka, Milan (advisor) ; Kozák, Jan (referee)
In his book, Patterns in Comparative Religion (1996), the Romanian scholar Mircea Eliade deals with comparative religion in terms of their repeating structures of phenomena. These "symbolisms" are systems of hierophanies, or manifestations of the sacred, that are binded together by one element. The contents of symbolism is determined by the meanings of individual hierophanies as well as the structure between them. According to Eliade this structure is mutually transferable among religions. The aim of this thesis is to verify whether or not is this theory valid by means of analysis and comparison of hierophanies in two religions. Since in Patterns in Comparative Religion Eliade pays greater attention to archaic religions, this thesis tries to apply his theory on two living religions. We will verify the validity of water symbolism in Christianity, whose symbolism is partially addressed in Eliade's book, and Islam, which isn't mentioned in the chapter on water symbolism at all.
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