 | Felicitas D. Goodman, Nana Nauwald - 2003 - 216 pages
...most of the Central American cultures, fishes and birds are the animals which are able to move freely between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Parrots especially can be leaders or messengers who accompany the dead into the lower world. This posture... | |
 | James Hoke Sweet - 2003 - 324 pages
...human beings and the various deities. In more specific terms, the universe was conceived as divided between the world of the living and the world of the dead. These two worlds were separated by a large body of water through which the dead had to pass in order... | |
 | Barbara Freitag - 2004 - 236 pages
...house and also over the entrance of the byre. The most striking evidence of the continuing interplay between the world of the living and the world of the dead is to be found in fertility rites involving visits to the burial ground. These are reported from all... | |
 | Onno Docters van Leeuwen, Rob Docters van Leeuwen - 2004 - 476 pages
...Gabriel is related to all who accompanied the soul in, through, and out of death, and to all who mediated between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Gabriel calls forth the transformed soul from the world of the dead. The newly born, the New Human... | |
 | Paul A. LaViolette - 2004 - 390 pages
...the sacred Osiris creation mystery. The king, or pharaoh, was regarded as a living deity and mediator between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Through him, the vital energies of the cosmos were bestowed upon his country, ensuring its power and... | |
 | Elizabeth Klaver - 2004 - 268 pages
...form of masses or alms, was very often conducted with the assistance of the brotherhoods. Gatekeepers between the world of the living and the world of the dead, they helped shape the particular grammar and nuance of Brazil's spirit idiom. The confluence of the... | |
 | Jack Fritscher - 2004 - 294 pages
...with flowers. The pagan autumn feast of Samhain (pronounced sow-en), which celebrates the crossing between the world of the living and the world of the dead, became Halloween, the Eve of All Saints, the night before the Christian feast of All Souls Day. The... | |
 | Philip Coppens - 2004 - 224 pages
...is generally believed to be November. It was in this period that it was believed that the "divide" between the World of the Living and the World of the Dead was closest and "traversible". There is evidence from Plutarch, who wrote: "They say, then, that the... | |
 | Ian Wilson - 2004 - 356 pages
...'Puabi'. 16 In fact in this instance the bird is likely to be the owl, also regarded as an intermediary between the world of the living and the world of the dead. 17 Herodotus, The Histories, book iv, 180. This custom is strikingly similar to the one that Herodotus... | |
 | Anika Stafford - 2005 - 100 pages
...continuing connection to and affection for our beloved dead. It is the pagan New Year, when the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead is believed to be thinnest. It honors the Crone Goddess, who gives us wisdom, and the Horned God, who... | |
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... the world of the living and the world of the dead, such as exist in native forms of spiritism.1 After death every spirit goes to the nether world in Tuma. 
