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This article focuses on the study of the intermedial adaptations of one of the most recognizable titles of adult bande dessinée in France, Nikopol Trilogy by Serbian-born French author Enki Bilal. After a brief discussion of some of the main categories of adaptation, and their applicability to the intermedial circulations from comics to other media such as cinema, radio, television, literature and video games, the analysis focuses on the intermedial productivity of Bilal’s dystopia. This examination is particularly interesting because of the confluence of multiple media and platforms (museum exposition and picture book, theatre and cinema, digital comics and video games) in which narrative materials are modeled in a variety of mechanisms (illustration, rewriting, transfictionality). Thus the persistence of fictional universe and the interest of the major part of its transpositions.

Over one hundred years have past since Paul Haupt first proposed that the divine name Yhwh is an imperfect hiphil verbal form from the root ... (\"to be\") that means \"he causes to be > he creates.\" In this article, I propose that the Semitic concept of a ... deity, a deity's whose name is formed from this root, began in the East when Enki, the Sumerian god of subterranean waters, acquired the Semitic name Ea. To this day Ea, written ..., is conjectured to derive from the Proto-Semitic root ... (\"to live\"), a hypothesis founded on an old reading of the cuneiform sign ... and its associative vocalic values that were, at the time, based on later Akkadian dialects. It is now known, however, that, prior to the Ur III period, ... was read ... and reflects /ha/. With this refinement in hand it is now possible to show that Ea's name was pronounced either lhayal and/or lhawayl, a third person masculine singular stative or predicative construction of ... . It means \"he is/exists.\" It is feasible, therefore, that the earliest articulation of the West's ... deity was /yahway/, an imperfect yaqtal G-stem. Although this means that /yahwe(h)f qua hiphil is a later development, the subsequent shift to a causative marks a fundamental theological change in the evolution of the Semitic perception of a ... deity's true nature. (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae/symbols omitted.)

From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the dynamic influence of the Greek, Roman, and Arab conquests of the Near East, William McCants looks at the ways the conquerors and those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social and political consequences of empire.

Since its first published editions and translations early in the last century, the Sumerian narrative now known as Enki and Ninhursag has been at the center of claims and controversies over the nature of myth and the relations among the myths of different cultures in the Near East. Dickson reviews earlier interpretations of the narrative and suggests that a number of different but still unified approaches to an understanding of its context and content as myth.

ENKI-DB, es un sistema de información taxonómica y molecular de especies propias de la biodiversidad colombiana, accesible vía Internet. Mediante ENKI-DB se tiene acceso inmediato a toda la información taxonómica y molecular presente en las bases de datos SPICA®, SIB, EMBL y UNIPROT para especies propias de la biodiversidad colombiana exclusivamente. Hasta la fecha el sistema ha logrado enlazar 10 808 registros de especies propias de la biodiversidad colombiana (presentes en las bases de datos SIB y SPICA®), para las que han encontrado 1 976 751 registros molecula­res, 96 337 provenientes de las bases de datos de información proteica (UniprotKb, Uniref y Uniparc) y 1 880 414 de la base de datos EMBL de DNA. Aunque esta información se encuentra presente también, de manera independiente, en cada una de estas bases de datos, a través de ENKI- DB los datos son accesibles desde una sola interfase y de manera integrada y depurada. El sistema permite además realizar alineamientos locales utilizando la implementación del algoritmo BLAST del NCBI. ENKI- DB ha sido desarrollado en su totalidad en PHP y PERL, haciendo uso de las librerías Bio-PHP, Bio-PERL y utilizando la base de datos MySQL como repositorio central de información. ENKI-DB es accesible vía Internet, de manera completamente gratuita y pública en la siguiente dirección: http://bioinf.ibun.unal.edu.co/enkidb/ Contacto: cenbio_nal@unal.edu.co Palabras clave: ENKI, molecular, taxonomía, biodiversidad colombiana, bioinformática.

If all that sounds like a stretch, you can find all the kinky proof you could possibly need in [Enki Bilal]'s Immortal, quite possibly the most bizarre and sexually twisted science fiction movie ever made. Born Enes Bilalovic in Belgrade, Bilal moved to France as a child and entered the comic book industry as an artist. He created a series of Immortal graphic novels that focus on the character of Nikopol -- a glorified resistance fighter who urges humans to resist the desire to make themselves better with artificial parts. Had Bilal been able to use the sex as more than a visual motif, he could have conveyed a lot more than divine coitus. But as it is, Immortal is a messy collage of soft porn and science fiction that'll appeal to 14-year-old boys, insular and forlorn older men and fans of kinky fantasy.

The almost indescribable new live-action/CGI retro-futuristic fable by Parisian graphic novelist [Enki Bilal] is an all-you-can-eat Egyptian mythology-meets-cryo-genetics gumbo about a girl with blue hair who cries blue tears near the beginning of the 23rd century somewhere in the vertical levels of gloomy New York City. Even more compulsively arty than this season's other immortal, the Montreal-shot vampire fest Immortel, Bilal's opus borrows heavily from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Luc Besson's The Fifth Element and the upmarket comic strip's own rich legacy of pan- historical gobbledygook, while remaining compulsively watchable for the duration. Color Photo: Graphic-novelist-turned director Enki Bilal's film Immortal mixes Egyptian mythology and sci-fi into a whacked-out cinematic stew.; Photo: Scene from the French animated vampire film Immortel.

The almost indescribable new live-action/CGI retro-futuristic fable by Parisian graphic novelist Enki Bilal is an all you can eat Egyptian mythology-meets cryo-genetics gumbo about a girl with blue hair who cries blue tears near the beginning of the 23rd century somewhere in the vertical levels of gloomy New York City. Even more compulsively arty than this season's other Immortal, the Montreal-shot vampire fest Immortel, Bilal's opus borrows heavily from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Luc Besson's The Fifth Element and the upmarket comic strip's own rich legacy of pan- historical gobbledygook, while remaining compulsively watchable for the duration.

ENKI-DB, es un sistema de información taxonómica y molecular de especies propias de la biodiversidad colombiana, accesible vía Internet. Mediante ENKI-DB se tiene acceso inmediato a toda la información taxonómica y molecular presente en las bases de datos SPICA®, SIB, EMBL y UNIPROT para especies propias de la biodiversidad colombiana exclusivamente. Hasta la fecha el sistema ha logrado enlazar 10 808 registros de especies propias de la biodiversidad colombiana (presentes en las bases de datos SIB y SPICA®), para las que han encontrado 1 976 751 registros molecula­res, 96 337 provenientes de las bases de datos de información proteica (UniprotKb, Uniref y Uniparc) y 1 880 414 de la base de datos EMBL de DNA. Aunque esta información se encuentra presente también, de manera independiente, en cada una de estas bases de datos, a través de ENKI- DB los datos son accesibles desde una sola interfase y de manera integrada y depurada. El sistema permite además realizar alineamientos locales utilizando la implementación del algoritmo BLAST del NCBI. ENKI- DB ha sido desarrollado en su totalidad en PHP y PERL, haciendo uso de las librerías Bio-PHP, Bio-PERL y utilizando la base de datos MySQL como repositorio central de información. ENKI-DB es accesible vía Internet, de manera completamente gratuita y pública en la siguiente dirección: http://bioinf.ibun.unal.edu.co/enkidb/ Contacto: cenbio_nal@unal.edu.co Palabras clave: ENKI, molecular, taxonomía, biodiversidad colombiana, bioinformática.ENKI-DB is a taxonomic and molecular integration system for Colombian species which is available on the internet. This system provides users with immediate access to all taxonomic and molecular data present in SPICA®, SIB, EMBL and UNIPROT databases for all Colombian species. To date, our system has been able to link 10,808 Colombian species (SIB and SPICA® databases) to 1 976 751 molecular entries, 96 337 from UniprotKb, Uniref and Uniparc and 1,880,414 from the EMBL DNA datábase. Although this information is also available on each datábase independently, ENKI-DB allows users to reach all that integrated information through one interface. We have also integrated the NCBI-BLAST programme with the ENKI-DB system which allows users to run pair-wise comparisons on the same ENKI-DB web interface. ENKI-DB has been developed with Bio-PHP and Bio-PERL and uses MySQL RDBMS as backup. Availability: http://bioinf.ibun.unal.edu.co/enkidb/ Contact: cenbio_nal@unal.edu.co Key words: ENKI, molecular integration system, taxonomy, Colombian biodiversity, bioinformatics.

(STF) - From turn of the century Russia through the turmoil of post WW2 Europe, where the map was carved out between East and West and Yugoslavia fell under Communism, [Enki Bilal]'s eye is unflinching in probing Europe while his heart rests on its future. From The Hunting Party to Dormant Beast, from turn of the century Russia through the turmoil of post WW2 Europe, where the map was carved out between East and West and Yugoslavia fell under Communism, Bilal's eye is unflinching in probing Europe while his heart rests on its future. Lot F2-39, Sunway Pyramid Megamall, Bandar Sunway, Selangor. Tel 03 5822661 Fax: 03 9833129 email: cheahyl@pc.jaring.my comiccor@tm.net.my