...Bhagirath's granduncles were not granted entry into the land of the dead and they lingered unhappily between the world of the living and the world of the dead. They begged Bhagirath to find a way of restoring them into the cycle of rebirths. This was possible...

...the southern peasantry. A pervasive religious conception among the Vietnamese is the correspondence between the world of the living and the world of the dead. This unites practices as diverse as ancestor worship, Christianity, the July 2jth national holiday...

...Boundaries between Life and Death On earth, the most important division of space seems to have been that between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Usually, the cities located on hills were separated from the extraurban burial areas by rivers, such...

...contexts? The scene illustrated in figure 3.1 will permit us to demonstrate not only the transition between the world of the living and the world of the dead but also the passage to the afterworld. It will be argued here that the lower register represents the...

...them, or sequestering them, the monks created a public impression of disrupting the proper relationship between the world of the living and the world of the dead, a disruption that threatened dire consequences for the community. Along with the curse, the clamor...

...concoctions to keep his wife looking young, a parallel might be made with this vision of a life suspended between the world of the living and the world of the dead. There is a precedent for this kind of relationship between the poet's duty, poetic honesty and the...

...seemed natural to most medieval and early modern theatergoers. The notion of the priest as intermediary between the world of the living and the world of the dead was symbolically enacted by the actors of the Noh play. SOME REPRESENTATIVE NOH PLAYS LISTED ACCORDING...

...re-unite with his wife there. This story echoes Lena's quest for her dead beloved, where the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead is blurred once again. Johnny himself, a ghost in the play's present, can be seen as a trickster-like...

...and I say prayers and perform rituals to assist their safe passage. I am a caretaker of the bridge between the world of the living and the world of the dead. It is not such a bad thing, is it?" '1'm sorry," Zaidy said. '1t's just that, as you said, people in...

...one life-phase to another, including birth, marriage, and death.62 Ceres also stood at the threshold between the world of the living and the world of the dead. In the city of Rome stood a monument known as the mundus ("world"), the opening of which was a state...