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Ka (Ancient Egypt) |
Life force that departs one's body when they die. |
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Ba (Ancient Egypt |
2nd self, or soul that was another part of "eternal self". Usually depicted as a bird with a human head. |
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Akh (Egypt) |
When Ka and Ba come together after death. Still had contact with the living and could influence the living people for good or bad. |
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Opening of the Mouth Ceremony (Egypt) |
An important funerary ritual |
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Ra (Egypt) |
God of the sun. Ferried the dead to the underworld on the Boat of Ra |
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Duat (Egypt) |
The world of the Egyptian dead. Had to pass 7 gates; each full of staff of a Gatekeeper, Watcher and Herald |
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Book of the Dead (Egypt) |
A collection of prayers or spells to guide one through the underworld. |
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Anubis (Egypt) |
A Jackal headed God that would guide the dead to a court like setting after the 7 gates were passed. |
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Psychopump |
Someone who accompanies deceased souls to the afterlife (usually protecting them) |
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The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony (Egypt) |
The crucial moment where the deceased's heart would be weighed to see how many sins that they have committed. |
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Ma'at (Egypt) |
The feather that is weighed against the heart of the sinner and goddess of truth and justice |
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Ammit (Egypt) |
The God, "The devourer"/"Eater of the hearts" was ready to gobble up the heart of the guilty souls |
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Aaru (Egypt) |
Where the dead who's heart was pure after the Weighing of the Heart Ceremony would go. "The Field of Wreaths" where there were still dangers. |
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Shabti (Egypt) |
Statuettes that one was buried with that would later serve as servants in the afterlife. |
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Zoroastrianism |
One of the most influential religions in the middle east. Stretching from the Greek world to India (before the rise of Islam) |
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Ahura Mazda (Zoro) |
the Supreme Being represented as a deity of goodness and light in Zoroastrianism. |
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Ahriman (Zoro) |
Lord of Lies. |
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Chinvat (Zoro) |
Bridge where one crosses after death accompanied by a Maiden to the House of Song |
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Druj Demana (Zoro) |
"The House of lies" where one falls id they have committed to many sins. |
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Yima (Zoro) |
Ruler of Druj Demana |
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Types of Evil in Druj Demana (Zoro) |
Evil thoughts, words, deeds and worst of all, endless darkness |
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Soshyan (Zoro) |
A savior born a virgin that will lead the fight of evil. He will harrow hell and forgive sinners |
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Sheol (Judaism) |
Most frequently used in the Hebrew Scriptures to describe the destination of the dead. Referred to as a place to lay corpse |
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Gehena (Judaism) |
Another word in the Hebrew scriptures that translates to "hell" but actually more of a place where dead bodies were thrown out and burned. |
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Pharisees (Judaism) |
Those who believed in resurrection |
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Sadducees (Judaism) |
Those who rejected the belief of resurrection |
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Josephus (Judaism) |
Jewish author of the 1st century who gives details of both Pharisees and Sadducees. |
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The Essenes (Judaism) |
Mystical group of contemporary monks. |
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Syncretism (Judaism) |
Religious influence and interchange from different cultures are evident in the ideas of the Essenes |
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Hesiod (Greek) |
Poet (700 BCE); earliest greek source of the afterlife |
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Muses (Greek) |
In one of Hesoids stories, he is the God who wisits a simple farmer who was tending his sheep. |
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Theogeny (Greek) |
(Birth of the Gods) Detailed description of the origin of the cosmos and the extended family tree of gods |
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The 3 Different Struggles between the 3 generation of Gods (Greek) |
Cannibalism, Castration and Conflict & War |
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Tartarus (Greek) |
An inescapable place of punishment and a distant abyss far below the Earth. It is fenced in and one could fall through the center for "a year" and "not touch the bottom" |
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Homer (Greek) |
Poet, greatest source of information about Greek afterlife. |
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Hades (Greek) |
God of the underworld, ruler of the dead. Was not evil, but was very rigorous in maintaining his reign. Ruthless when someone tried to cheat death or cheat him |
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Serberus (Greek) |
Hades dog companion |
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The Odyssey (Greek) |
Work of Homer where one gets a glimpse of the Greek conception of the existence of death. |
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Odysseus (Greek) |
In the Odyssey, he is trying to return home after the Trojan War |
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Tyresias (Greek) |
Legendary prophet whom is already dead, but Odysseus needs to speak to in order to return to his home. |
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Achilles (Greek) |
Greatest warrior of the Trojan War who chose an early death for eternal fame. |
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Tantalus (Greek) |
A "shade" who practices cannibalism. His punishment was to never be able to eat or drink every again. |
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Sisyphus (Greek) |
A "shade" who was a king in life, a trickster who believed was better than Zeus. His punishment was to roll a stone up a hill, but fail everytime he reached the top. |
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Hermes (Greek) |
Arrives as psychopump for the people that Odysseus had slaughtered. |
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Persephone (Greek) |
Daughter of Demeter (Goddess of Harvest) and Zeus. Later became known as the Queen of the Underworld who carried out the different curses to the dead. |
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Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek) |
Ceremonies in honor of Demeter and Persephone. Split in 3 Phases: The lost phase, search phase and assent phase. |
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Orpheus (Greek) |
Great musician and poet who's music movied everyone |
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Euridyce (Greek) |
The wife of the musician Orpheus who eventually stayed in the underworld. |
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Dionysus (Greek) |
Patron God of the theater who searched the underworld along with his sidekick Xanthius for someone who could write a playwright. |
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River Styx (Greek) |
River in which Dionysus and Xanthius have to cross |
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Charon (Greek) |
Boatman who demands coins in order for someone to cross the Charon River. |
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Euripedes and Aeschylus |
The two who battle for the Best playwright |
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Plato (Greek) |
One of the most influential philosophers in the world. Famous for a new form of writing/literature: Dialogues. |
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Theory of Froms (Greek) |
Theory created by Plato asking what is real? The connection between the physical world and the platonic world. |
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Cave Analogy (Greek) |
Famous idea based on Plato's; a metaphor for what the human experience is |
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Phaedo (Greek) |
Dialogue in which Socrates argues about the Cave Analogy |
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Lethe (Greek) |
River in which souls drink out of before the process of reincarnation begins. It erases all memories before starting over again. |
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Gorgias (Greek) |
Dialogue in which Rhadamanthus stamps souls as curable or incurable, almost like a judge. |
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Er (Greek) |
Soldier in the Dialogue "The Republic" who was so badly wounded he was believed dead and 12 days later before being burned woke up to tell people about the visions he had. |
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Virgil (Greek) |
One of the greatest poets of Western tradition. Was also the one who influenced Dante as his guide/psychopump |
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The Aneid (Greek) |
One of the greatest poems of ancient Rome nby master worker Virgil. |
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Aeneus (Greek) |
Great warrior of the Trojan war who set himself on a mission to find his dead father in the underworld who has a message for him. |
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Sibyle of Cumae (Greek) |
Important oracle for the Romans and was a source if wisdom. Guide Aeneus through his journey. |
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Golden Bough (Greek) |
A way for Aeneus to return from the underworld. |
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Gates of Dis (Greek) |
Gates in which Syble and Aeneus are able to pass |
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Acheron (Greek) |
River in the story of Aeneus |
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Minos (Greek) |
Judge of the souls who waits on the other side of the Acheron River |
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Tisiphone (Greek) |
"The Voice of Revenge". She is clothed in bloody clothes, doesn't ever sleep. |
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Hydra (Greek) |
Animal like figure in which punished the most damned/evil souls |
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Groves of the Blessed |
Where are the good souls are put to rest and where Aeneus finds his father. |
