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	Anthropomorphism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthropomorphism in the form of personification consists of creating imaginary persons who are the embodiment of an abstraction such as Death, Lust or War.
		Anthropomorphism is a well established device in literature, notably in books for children, such as those by C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, Roald Dahl and Lewis Carroll, which involve characters such as Peter Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and the fantastical talking animals of The Chronicles of Narnia.
		Using anthropomorphized caricatures or projecting human qualities on conceptual entities or inanimate objects in reasoning is also known as committing a pathetic fallacy (not a pejorative term).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthropomorphism (1791 words)

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		Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art.
		Issues which come under discussion include: problems of identification and definition; the question of gender; the status of personifications in relation to the gods; the significance of personification as a literary device; the uses and meanings of personification in different visual media; personification as a means of articulating place, time and worldly power.
		The papers reflect the enormous range of contexts in which personification occurs, which in turn indicates the ubiquity of the phenomenon as a pattern of thought in the ancient Greek world.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /classics/emma/person.html (290 words)

	personification poems - GRML Wed Aug 9 11:54:14 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Anthropomorphism is also referred to as personification, or prosopopeia.
		Anthropomorphism is important in many traditions of magic.
		Anthropomorphism, as personification, consists of creating imaginary persons.
	grmlbrowser.com /mini-sites/p/personification-poems.asp (461 words)

	00-02sta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While the iconography of personification has been thoroughly examined in Shapiro's excellent book,[[1]] Stafford's work is the first to integrate literary sources, iconography, epigraphy, theology and archeology in nearly forty years.
		Not until long after worshipping personifications became a religious practice in antiquity did a useful definition of the term even appear.
		The pattern of a deified personification appearing first literature and then in cult while by no means universal is not atypical.
	www.classics.und.ac.za /reviews/0002sta.htm (1467 words)

	Anthropomorphic Personification
		Numerous interactions with spiritual and transdimesional realms and entities have been recorded, as has an overabundant history of evidence spanning centuries and cultures of the direct and visible personification of specific beings.
		For the average mortal, with little or no psychic discernment, anthropomorphism is essential to the learning and understanding process.
		The personification of an entity lies in the realm of physics that mankind has not yet the ability to comprehend, let alone measure.
	themystica.com /mystica/articles/a/anthropomorphic_personification.html (377 words)

	#TL05AB: Anthropomorphism And Related Phenomena
		According to Guthrie, anthropomorphism can be described as "attributing human characteristics to nonhuman phenomena." Thinking in terms of "mother nature." Talking to a car or computer as if it can understand you and respond to your spoken messages.
		I suspect that for most people, unless the mechanisms of anthropomorphism are brought to their attention with a report such as this, semantic anthropomorphism is effectively unconscious and involuntary.
		An aspect of anthropomorphism in that a human condition is projected as a "thing" which is mistakenly assumed to exist by itself.
	www.buildfreedom.com /tl/tl05ab.shtml (8841 words)

	The Discworld Homework Files: Reaper Man
		In contrast to Death, who as an anthropomorphic personification does not have any significant sense of embodied self but must become embodied in his life in the mortal world, Windle must learn how to use the body that his independent self has taken for granted for all his life.
		His trials and tribulations also serve to emphasise the fundamental interconnectedness of the biological and social being; as a previously disembodied personification he has had no need for a personal name, but as a newly embodied person his person must have a name; society in the form of Miss Flitworth insists upon it.
		As a new Death is not yet arising from the belief of humans, the excess life-force begins to spill over from the undead into totally new organisms.
	www.kew1.demon.co.uk /homework/rm.html (504 words)

	Disc Personalities
		He has evolved since the dawn of man from the sacrificial swine hunted to bring back the sun, to a grisly butcher who delivered meat to good children, to his current form.
		The personification responsible for frost, especially the patterns found on the window panes.
		Lately he has taken to artistic variation, attempting big eyed puppies and the like since he was told that although the intricate "ferns" were nice, they lacked soul.
	www.angelfire.com /ut/angusville/personalities.html (3817 words)

	Personification - Personification Stock Photo Images. 218 Personification pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Personification is giving human qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics to inanimate Therefore, we have a good example of personification.
		Personification is an historically ancient subject, as some here will is too restrictive -- in fact even some personification characters
		Check to see if you know what personification is. Click on the stanzas that you think are examples of personification.
	www.findouthome.com /?q=personification (260 words)

	Personification Poems - Inspirational Poems - www.poems.foodweb.be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		personification sappho poems: thetermpaperssite.com- the only term paper site, research paper site, book report site...
		More free term paper abstracts about "personification sappho poems"can be found on...
		Poets use personification to help their poems come to life.
	www.poems.foodweb.be /inspirational-poems/personification-poems.html (371 words)

	eDivination - Psychic, Occult and Mystical Dictionary.
		If such occasions ever took place, it was only as elaborate fantasies in the minds of the theologians, demonologists and witch-hunters themselves.
		In the Judeo-Christian tradition, Satan, from the Hebrew word for 'adversary' (connoting the idea of opposition), is the personification of evil and all that is hostile to God and his will.
		In the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) the translation of 'satan' is given as 'diabolos' meaning 'Devil'.
	www.edivination.com /dictionary/s.html (715 words)

	Terry Pratchett Mort Reviewed by Rick kleffel
		That said, 'Mort' is also an excellent introduction to one of the most beloved characters in Discworld, Death.
		Pratchett does more in 'Mort' than have fun with a familiar anthropomorphic personification.
		Having created Death as an Anthropomorphic Personification, Pratchett succeeds at turning him into a character with whom the reader can sympathize, no small feat when speaking of the Grim Reaper.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/pratchett-mort.htm (610 words)

	Cry Havoc! and Let Slip the Spawn of War
		She was an anthropomorphic personification of war, after all.
		For nine months, soldiers all over the world found that life had become more disconcerting than usual; weapons turned into ice cream, battlefield geography rearranged itself overnight, generals awoke in their tanks instead of their beds, and entire squadrons disappeared, never to be heard from again.
		Pepper just gritted her teeth and tried to find enough samosas to satisfy a pregnant anthropomorphic personification's cravings.
	thewritegirls.populli.net /carmarthen/spawn.html (716 words)

	FictionPress.Com Story : Moira Rose's Drunken Ramblings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		also, there are several personal references in Rose's "drunken rambling" that are best ignored- such as the bits about dream and aeric, and "nobody in particular" as an anthropomorphic personification.
		At the moment, she has long red hair, dozens of bird-wings of the same color, vampire fangs, elfin ears, and horns...
		"You know why I'm what i am?" Rose demands of nobody in particular- not meaning the anthropomorphic personification, but genuinely, she isn't talking to anybody.
	www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=784781 (1377 words)

	Spaced Out Forum -> Discworld
		It is a fact that although the Death of the Discworld is, in his own words, an ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION, he long ago gave up using the traditional skeletal horses, because of the bother of having to stop all the time to wire bits back on.
		After the first five/six you could probably flip around the series but you will lose track of the various 'inventions' that are introduced in various novels as well as the development of some leading characters if you head too far forwards.
		Any of the City Watch books which can be read as a series on their own, really.
	www.spaced-out.org.uk /forums/index.php?showtopic=9357 (1209 words)

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		Omni, the Balseraph Demon Prince of Anthropomorphic Personification "The World is many things to many people- and many people to many things." It seemed like such a good idea at the time, really.
		Oddly, they are forbidden from harming their other creative element: destroying a Brownie for its Essence causes dissonance equal to the amount of Essence gained.
		Roughly one and a half to two feet tall, they retain the basic rectangular brownie shape and the dark chocolate color (though occasionally a Blondie is encountered), but have powerful arms and legs, a fully-articulated and nearly human face (near the top of their rectangular bodies), and a pair of brown or fl feathered wings.
	www.sjgames.com /innomine/articles/new/digests/2002/2703.txt (7308 words)

	Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Real Name: None - she has many names and no real name, since she is the anthropomorphic personification of an abstract concept.
		History: When the first creature in the universe was born, and hence able to die, Death was there.
		Death is one of the Endless, the personifications of certain universal truths in the DC Universe.
	www.internationalhero.co.uk /d/death.htm (192 words)

	GGAP
		Thank you for you for applying for a Gift Giving Anthromorphic Personification.
		The chosen Anthromorphic Personification should have a liking for (tick all that apply):
		Please tick this box if you do not wish your information passed to other companies whom we feel offer services in which you would be interested [ ]
	www.mercianeclectics.dsl.pipex.com /urp/ggap.html (455 words)

	Morpheus, Lord of Dreams
		Real Name: None - he has many names and no real name, since he is the anthropomorphic personification of an abstract concept.
		He goes by many names, but none of them is truly his.
		He is the personification of stories, of ideas, of dreams, and he is one of the Endless, a group of beings who are both greater than gods, and less too.
	www.internationalhero.co.uk /d/dream.htm (887 words)

	bloomfield.me.uk \| Entry \| Fifty words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I’ve always been a fan of anthropomorphic - giving human characteristics to non-human things (ie animals, furniture etc).
		Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to use it at school -I described the character Death from the Terry Pratchett novels as an “immortal anthropomorphic personification” - a description that Mr P uses himself.
		Unfortuantely, glebe is described by Dictionary.com as “A plot of land belonging or yielding profit to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.” I assume this was sultry as in nice weather, not sexually arrousing.
	www.bloomfield.me.uk /entries/002274.htm (976 words)

	Spaced Out Forum -> Halo:the film
		Alex Garland as the writer was never a rumour, it was a press release from Microsoft and Bungie the whole way.
		I heard he was directing, but then again the person who told loves video games and lord of the rings, but is film illiterate.
		The only remotely interesting Halo related news in recent days is that a Halo character will be appearing in DOA4.
	www.spaced-out.org.uk /forums/index.php?showtopic=10744 (1130 words)

	I really like books by Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He's an anthropomorphic personification, as are War, Famine, Pestilence, and a milkman named Ronnie.
		Okay, maybe The Last Continent is a bit much for some people.
		The Hogfather is an anthropomorphic personification like Death.
	www.bedford.net /teep/pratchett.htm (1156 words)

	My Sandman Page
		It is, in my opinion, the best comic series ever written, although in fairness I don't read many comics.
		It tells the story of Dream, or Morpheus, an anthropomorphic personification, and his family (Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium who once was Delight).
		Here are some Death and Book of Magic quotes.
	www.netsoc.tcd.ie /~teleute/Sandman.html (78 words)

	Who's Who in the JLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		F T F O I: put short: Masochrist might NOT be dead.
		F T F O I: that and the JLS appears to have been sold out as a "Real World 7" Nikki Tyr: So he can be the anthropomorphic personification in the box in the thought experiment.
		F T F O I: well, wherever Masochrist might be, that's not our root problem.
	urbangeek.net /JLS/volume02/jlsv2_6.html (420 words)

	[ELFWOOD] SF&F Art / Theresa L. Barrow / 'True Nature' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In my own mixed up little mind, death is a job done by many individuals.
		It can't all be done by one anthropomorphic personification in a fl cowl with a scythe.
		You've got to have a little division of labour here and there.
	elfwood.lysator.liu.se /art/b/a/barrowth/bwtruenature.jpg.html (471 words)

	Digital Spy Forums - Doctor Who The Saturn Pit Bbc1
		The Black Guardian is an anthropomorphic personification of the forces of entropy and chaos, the counterpart of the White Guardian, a personification of order.
		The two Guardians balance out the forces in the universe, although the Black Guardian seems to desire to upset the balance in favour of chaos and evil while the White Guardian prefers to maintain the status quo.
		So either of the guardians could return at any time?
	forum.digitalspy.co.uk /board/showthread.php?t=389887 (920 words)

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