The ancient Greeks believed in a complex system of gods, goddesses, deities and heroes. This complexity extended to their view of the afterlife. With short lifespans and death a common occurrence, the ancient Greeks were very concerned not only with the act of dying, but funerary preparations,...
The present thesis is a comparative research about death and afterlife in ancient Greek and Viking society making use of both literary sources such as the Eddas and the Homeric epic poems and archaeological evidence including ship burials, rune stones, grave steles and vase paintings. I start ...
Egyptians see death as a opportunity to live on in the afterlife. They believe when a new pharaoh is crowned he should have a tomb built for when he dies, in order to go on into the afterlife people have to be accepted by Anubis, the god of death, and that animals are very worthy ...
Understanding of the nature of deathSocrates deem it impossible to know the truth of death. Man has no wisdom of the afterlife world, therefore death may hopefully be a good thing. He declared that “Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or a change and migration ...
and space, we know some details of ancient Greek visions of Hades' realm. For instance, access to the Underworld is somewhere in the west. We also have a literary idea of whom one might meet at the end of one's life, should this particular vision of the after-death happen to be ...
A well-known Greek myth associated with burials and the afterlife may be just a story, not tied to any religious practice. The myth is that the dead must enter Hades by crossing the River Styx by ferry. The ferryman, a grim figure sometimes used to symbolize death, is named Charon and ...
afterlife. "Kingdom of the other shore" is a continuation of the real world. They have not yet clearly defined the border of death as the heaven of joy and the ghastly terror of hell, but the Hades as a space for survival. Therefore, in the tomb of the Mino, all the tools ...
The breath you will need in the afterlife. Ba The Ba is what we might call someones personality. It would leave the body at the time of death. During the days the Ba would make itself useful, at night it would return to the tomb. At this time, it would look for the person to ...
1. Her cult was one of the most widespread in the ancient Greek world, showing that her practical, day-to-day cult was far more important than the occasinal literary . references to her would imply. 2. She was primarily a goddess of fertility and death, and an eternal virgin whom never...
Wepet-Renpet Festival: The Opening of the Year, celebrating the death and rebirth of Osiris, the god of the deceased. Wag Festival: Dedicated to the death of Osiris, the god of the deceased, and Egyptians that have passed on to the afterlife. Wag and Thoth Festival: Celebration of the ...