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Esoteric sciences --- Folklore --- underworld [doctrinal concept]
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Art --- History --- underworld [doctrinal concept] --- Swanenburg, van, Jacob Isaacsz. --- Naples
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Dutch literature --- hell [doctrinal concept] --- underworld [doctrinal concept]
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Dionysus (Greek deity) --- Dramatists --- Playwriting --- Voyages to the otherworld --- Subterranean voyages --- Underworld, Voyages to the --- Voyages to the underworld --- Voyages, Imaginary
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Die Frasche: Mit Ausgewahlten Antiken Scholien (Kleine Texte Fa1/4r Vorlesungen Und Aoebungen)
Voyages to the otherworld --- Dionysus (Greek deity) --- Playwriting --- Dramatists --- Subterranean voyages --- Underworld, Voyages to the --- Voyages to the underworld --- Voyages, Imaginary
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Satan --- satanic cults --- New York City --- Santeria --- the occult --- the satanic underworld --- spiritualism --- Palo Mayombe
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"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves, with the 'Great Soul' of the sun, into the darkness surrounding us. Here in the illustrations and texts of the Amduat, threats hidden in the depths of our soul become visible as concrete images, an analysis of which remains ever worthwhile: even in the guise of the evil, ominous, or dark side of godhead with which Schweizer concerns himself. The netherworld into which we descend underlies our own world. Creative energies of dreadful intensity are active there, and only death, to which all must surrender, makes us truly alive by offering us regeneration from the depths."-Erik Hornung, from the Foreword The Amduat (literally "that which is in the netherworld") tells the story of the nocturnal journey of Re, the Egyptian Sungod, through the netherworld from the time when the sun dies, after setting in the west, to its rebirth at sunrise in the east. In the middle of the night, in the profoundest depths of the netherworld, this resurrection is made possible by a mystical union of the sun with the mummified body of Osiris, god of the dead. This great mystery of the union between the freely moving soul of the Sungod, longing for the bright and boundless sky, with Osiris's corpse, which is irrevocably bound to the subterranean realm of the dead, evokes the renewal of all life and the restoration of totality.In the Egyptian belief system, the pharaohs and in later times all blessed dead embarked on this same "night-sea journey" after death, ultimately becoming one with Re and living forever. The vision of the afterlife elaborated in the Amduat, dating from around 1500 B.C.E., has been influential for millennia, providing the model for an entire genre of Egyptian literature, the Books of the Afterlife, which in turn endured into the Greco-Roman era. Its themes and images persisted into gnostic and alchemical texts and made their way into early Christian portrayals of the beyond.In The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld, Andreas Schweizer guides the reader through the Amduat, offering a psychological interpretation of its principal textual and iconographic elements. He is concerned with themes that run deep and wide in human experience, drawing on Jungian archetypes to find similar expression in many cultures worldwide: sleep as death; resurrection as reawakening or rebirth; and salvation or redemption, whether from original sin (as for Christians) or from the total annihilation of death (as for the ancient Egyptians).
Voyages to the otherworld. --- Eschatology, Egyptian. --- Subterranean voyages --- Underworld, Voyages to the --- Voyages to the underworld --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Book of that which is in the nether world. --- Amduat --- Amdouat --- Book of what is in the nether world --- Egypt --- Religion.
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Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the sights to be seen and the punishments meted out there, have kept a hold on the popular imagination for millennia. The legacy from doctrinal warnings and the deep-set literary markers that identify a place of suffering and alienation continue to stimulate creative exchange and critical thinking. Such work takes risks: it braves the dark and questions the past.The contributions in this volume reflect on the exigency of hell in the stories that we tell. They consider the transfer and repurposing of motifs across genres and generational divides, and acknowledge the sustained immediacy of physical and psychological landscapes of hell. The essays span a wide chronological range and apply various contemporary critical approaches, including cognitive science, performance studies and narratology. This cross-period analysis is complemented by interviews with three creative practitioners: Jeya Ayadurai, director of "Hell's Museum" in Singapore, the actor Lisa Dwan, who is acclaimed for her dramatisation of Samuel Beckett's late works, and the writer David Almond. From ancient myth and early English sermons to mid-twentieth-century surrealism and current responses to terrorist activities and environmental damage, the literature of hell engages with issues of immediate relevance and asks its audiences to reflect on their cultural history, the meaning of social justice and the nature of embodied existence.
Hell in literature. --- allegory. --- cultural history. --- hell representation. --- historical perspective. --- literary markers. --- metaphorical material. --- religious narratives. --- underworld. --- Voyages to the otherworld in literature.
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Painting --- painting [image-making] --- iconography --- fantasy [imagination] --- grotesques --- underworld [doctrinal concept] --- legendary beings --- fantasies [visual works] --- kunstgeschiedenis, Nederlanden --- fantastische kunst --- schilderkunst --- Flanders
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Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating ""near-death"" experiences have appeared in the past decade. People who have survived a close brush with death reveal their extraordinary visions and ecstatic feelings at the moment they died, describing journeys through a tunnel to a realm of light, visual reviews of their past deeds, encounters with a benevolent spirit, and permanent transformation after returning to life. Carol Zaleski's Otherworld Journeys offers the most comprehensive treatment to date of the evidence surrounding near-death experiences. The first to pla
Near-death experiences. --- Near-death experiences - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Near-death experiences --- Voyages to the otherworld --- Voyages to the otherworld in literature --- Subterranean voyages --- Underworld, Voyages to the --- Voyages to the underworld --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Experiences, Near-death --- Death, Apparent --- Christianity --- Religious aspects --- History of doctrines --- Near-death experiences - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Voyages to the otherworld. --- Christianity.
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