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The first verses of Genesis have been translated into Swedish and many other languages several times and in quite different ways. The variations presuppose correspondingly distinct images of the very first moments of creation and, in consequence, different spatial coordinates. The article examines the linguistic ground of some of the images, asking questions on the translators’ own creative contribution to our understanding of the Bible. The Swedish monumental Bibel 2000 is the outgoing point of the analysis.

We report the discovery of a two-armed mini-spiral structure within the inner kiloparsec of the E0 LINER/Seyfert 1 galaxy Arp 102B. The arms are observed in H alpha emission and located east and west of the nucleus, extending up to approximate to 1 kpc from it. We use narrow-band imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys, in combination with archival Very Large Array radio images at 3.6 and 6 cm to investigate the origin of the nuclear spiral. From the H alpha luminosity of the spiral, we obtain an ionized gas mass of the order of 10(6) solar masses. One possibility is that the nuclear spiral represents a gas inflow triggered by a recent accretion event which has replenished the accretion disk, giving rise to the double-peaked emission-line profiles characteristic of Arp 102B. However, the radio images show a one-sided curved jet which correlates with the eastern spiral arm observed in the H alpha image. A published milliarcsecond radio image also shows a one-sided structure at position angle approximate to 40 degrees, approximately aligned with the inner part of the eastern spiral arm. The absence of a radio counterpart to the western spiral arm is tentatively interpreted as indicating that the jet is relativistic, with an estimated speed of 0.45c. Estimates of the jet kinetic energy and the ionizing luminosity of the active nucleus indicate that both are capable of ionizing the gas along the spiral arms. We conclude that, although the gas in the nuclear region may have originated in an accretion event, the mini spiral is most likely the result of a jet-cloud interaction rather than an inflowing stream., authorCount :8

The comparison of spatial prepositions in Polish and Swedish is based on the assumption that spatial exponents of different languages represent a common conceptual system, a kind of elementary geometry. The common universe consists of DISTANCE, DIMENSIONS, INTERIOR, EXTERIOR and concepts related to the vertical and to the horisontal axis. The languagespecific distinctions show that each language discovers or stresses somewhat different features of the world referred to. Thus, on the one hand, the repertoire of spatial exponents tends to differ from language to language. On the other hand, there are differences in the semantic structure. Some Swedish prepositions need nouns denoting ringformed, cassetteshaped or bending objects, while Polish prepositions specify objects as full or empty, being in dynamic contact, or surrounded by other objects like islands. Swedish stresses the one- and three-dimensionality of objects more consistently than Polish. External surface of objects and the close adjacency are also differently structured in the languages in question. Some difference in spatial metonymy and metaphors are also pointed out.

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