Reading The Way To The Netherworld
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Reading The Way To The Netherworld
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Author : Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
language : en
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Reading The Way To The Netherworld written by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler and has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Religion categories.
The volume focuses on the various representations of the Beyond in later Antiquity, a period of intense interaction and competition between various religious traditions and ideals of education. The concepts and images clustering around the Beyond form a crucial focal point for understanding the dynamics of religion and education in later Antiquity. Although Christianity gradually supersedes the pagan traditions, the literary representations of the Beyond derived from classical literature and transmitted through the texts read at school show a remarkable persistence: they influence Christian late antique writers and are still alive in medieval literature of the East and West. A specifically Christian Beyond develops only gradually, and coexists subsequently with pagan ideas, which in turn vary according to the respective literary and philosophical contexts. Thus, the various conceptualisations of the great existential unknown, serves here as a point of reference for mirroring the changes and continuities in Imperial and Late Antique religion, education, and culture, and opening up further perspectives into the Medieval world.
The Sungod S Journey Through The Netherworld
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Author : Andreas Schweizer
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Sungod S Journey Through The Netherworld written by Andreas Schweizer and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Schweizer guides the reader through the Amduat, offering a psychological interpretation of its principal textual and iconographic elements. He draws on Jungian archetypes to identify similar expressions about the afterlife in other world cultures.
Travels In The Netherworld
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Author : Bryan J. Cuevas
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-02
Travels In The Netherworld written by Bryan J. Cuevas and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-02 with Religion categories.
In Travels in the Netherworld, Bryan J. Cuevas examines a fascinating but little-known genre of Tibetan narrative literature about the délok, ordinary men and women who claim to have died, traveled through hell, and then returned from the afterlife. These narratives enjoy audiences ranging from the most sophisticated monastic scholars to pious townsfolk, villagers, and nomads. Their accounts emphasize the universal Buddhist principles of impermanence and worldly suffering, the fluctuations of karma, and the feasibility of obtaining a favorable rebirth through virtue and merit. Providing a clear, detailed analysis of four vivid return-from-death tales, including the stories of a Tibetan housewife, a lama, a young noble woman, and a Buddhist monk, Cuevas argues that these narratives express ideas about death and the afterlife that held wide currency among all classes of faithful Buddhists in Tibet. Relying on a diversity of traditional Tibetan sources, Buddhist canonical scriptures, scholastic textbooks, ritual and meditation manuals, and medical treatises, in addition to the délok works themselves, Cuevas surveys a broad range of popular Tibetan Buddhist ideas about death and dying. He explores beliefs about the vulnerability of the soul and its journey beyond death, karmic retribution and the terrors of hell, the nature of demons and demonic possession, ghosts, and reanimated corpses. Cuevas argues that these extraordinary accounts exhibit flexibility between social and religious categories that are conventionally polarized and concludes that, contrary to the accepted wisdom, such rigid divisions as elite and folk, monastic and lay religion are not sufficiently representative of traditional Tibetan Buddhism on the ground. This study offers innovative perspectives on popular religion in Tibet and fills a gap in an important field of Tibetan literature.
Heavy Metal Pulp The Bloodstained Man
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Author : Christopher Rowley
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-06-08
Heavy Metal Pulp The Bloodstained Man written by Christopher Rowley and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-08 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Presenting Heavy Metal Pulp, a new line of novels combining noir fiction with fantastic art featuring the theme, story lines, and graphic styles of Heavy Metal magazine. Following the explosive events of book one, Pleasure Model, Detective Rook Venner, Mistress Julia, and Plesur are on the run from the government troops trying to kill them and from a shadowy group that wants to capture Plesur alive for its own purposes. What secrets have been implanted in Plesur's head—and why are they worth killing for? Caught between these two powerful rivals, the trio hides out in the lawless New Jersey territory. Betrayed by gang members looking to collect the bounty on Plesur's head, the three are separated, and Rook and Mistress Julia find themselves in mortal danger. Julia, given as a prize to a gang member, finds herself in chains, but not without her own means of fighting back. Rook, forced to fight for his life in the gang's bloodthirsty gladiatorial games, must stay alive long enough to rescue Plesur, but time is running out. The Bloodstained Man is a fast-paced, adrenaline-filled ride through a future where pleasure has a price, and Plesur holds the key to a secret that could rock the country to its very core. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Myths Of The Underworld In Contemporary Culture
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Author : Judith Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-11
Myths Of The Underworld In Contemporary Culture written by Judith Fletcher and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld. Covering a range of genres - including novels, comics, and children's culture, by authors such as Elena Ferrante, Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, A. S. Byatt, Toni Morrison, and Anne Patchett - it reveals how an enduring fascination with life after death, and fantasies of accessing the world of the dead while we are still alive, manifest themselves in myriad and varied re-imaginings of the ancient descent myth. The volume begins with a detailed overview of the use of the myth by ancient authors such as Homer, Aristophanes, Vergil, and Ovid, before exploring the ways in which the narrative of a return trip to Hades by Odysseus, Aeneas, Orpheus, and Persephone can be manipulated by contemporary storytellers to fit themes of social marginality and alterity, postmodern rebellion, the position of female authors in the literary canon, and the dislocation endured by refugees, exiles, and diasporic populations. It also argues that citations of classical underworld stories can disrupt and challenge the literary canon by using media - such as comic books, children's culture, or rock music - not conventionally associated with high culture.
Netherworld
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Author : Robert K. G. Temple
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2002
Netherworld written by Robert K. G. Temple and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
The extraordinary discovery of the Underworld of the ancient Greeks. We tend to think of ancient stories of visits to the Underworld by Odysseus, Orpheus and Aeneas as being poetic fictions, but Robert Temple shows here that in fact, the Ancients believed the Underworld to be a place that actually existed. It was maintained by a college of priests who would prepare, through ritual fasting, prayer, animal sacrifice, bathing and solitude, whoever wished to meet the shades of the dead. The candidate would then be led through the entrance to the Underworld, a dark, terrifying place, far underground, where after a series of ordeals and apparitions, they would finally meet with the ghosts of the dead. All these features recur in the ancient stories. Recently Robert Temple heard that a 1962 archaeological expedition had actually discovered the entrance in Italy.This is the amazing story of what he found when he was finally allowed to make his own descent into the Underworld - the River Styx, false doors, a snake pit and carved invocations to the Goddess of the Underworld, all revealed for the first time since ancient times.
Gilgamesh Enkidu And The Netherworld And The Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle
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Author : Alhena Gadotti
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-08-08
Gilgamesh Enkidu And The Netherworld And The Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle written by Alhena Gadotti and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-08 with History categories.
Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.
Gilgamesh Enkidu And The Netherworld And The Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle
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Author : Alhena Gadotti
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-08-08
Gilgamesh Enkidu And The Netherworld And The Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle written by Alhena Gadotti and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-08 with History categories.
Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.
Wechat Group In Nether World
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Author : Bu YiTaiBai
language : en
Publisher: Funstory
Release Date : 2020-10-07
Wechat Group In Nether World written by Bu YiTaiBai and has been published by Funstory this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-07 with Fiction categories.
College student Li Rui, because the cell phone given to him is not the most expensive Apple 8, his girlfriend despised and broke it. Unexpectedly, a blessing came from misfortune. A WeChat group that was able to communicate with the Underworld appeared on his phone. From then on, Li Rui's world was different. Beautiful teachers, pure school beauties, charming doctors, and hot young women. Without saying a word, they would fight a dozen! The second generation rich next door was very arrogant and despotic? Let him kneel down and sing a hymn today! He didn't even need to see blood to kill, he just needed to greet Ox-Head and Horse-Face! To talk about life with the Messenger with his arms around his shoulders, and the King of Hell, this was what you called 'awesome'! And to see how Li Rui would be able to save lives with just his medical skills and become the spokesperson of the Underworld through the WeChat group!
The Nether World
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Author : George Gissing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
The Nether World written by George Gissing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Fiction categories.