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Communication with the Deceased in Dreams: Overcoming the Boundary between This World and the Otherworld or Its Conceptualization Strategy?

Religions
Starting from the concept of death in contemporary Serbian culture (in the context of thanatological and anthropological studies), the author focuses on the analysis of communication with the deceased in dreams, which is still perceived as an important ...
Smiljana Djordjevic Belić
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The Otherworld in Dostoevsky’s Short Story “Bobok” [PDF]

Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2023
The article is devoted to the study of the description of the otherworld in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s mystical story “Bobok,” first published in 1873 in the author’s column A Writer’s Diary of the weekly Grazhdanin (Dostoevsky was at the time both author and ...
Nikolay N. Podosokorsky
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الحركة في العالم الآخر من خلال نصوص الكتب الدينية في الدولة الحديثة [PDF]

مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية, 2022
 اعتقد المصري القديم في البعث وبالتالي الخلود، ولكي يحافظ على البعث والاستمرارية كان عليه أن يمهد حركة إله الشمس "رع" أو المتوفى في العالم الآخر وأن يبعده عن السكون أو كل ما يعرقل سيره ، ولأن النصوص الدينية كانت الضامن الأول لهذا الأمر فقد حرص على اختيار
Hamdy Ahmed Elsorogy& Elham Gar Elnaby Elhelw
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Onomastic Representation of the Otherworld in Russian Popular Language and Culture [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2019
The article attempts to render a speculative image of the otherworld as represented in Russian onomastic material. The concept itself refers to an imagined metaphysical reality in which most important locations and characters are specified by proper ...
Ivan A. Podyukov
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Otherworldly Space in Novel by Lyudmila Ulitskaya “Kukotsky Enigma”

Научный диалог, 2021
The features of the image of the otherworldly space in the novel “The Kukotsky Enigma” are considered. The relevance of the topic is due to Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s understanding of the text as a tool with which one can “see the otherworldly”.
E. A. Khudenko, E. T. Glazinskaya
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LINGUISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE OTHERWORLD AS A SPACE IN A LITERARY TEXT

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2022
The category of space, originally related to the field of scientific knowledge of philosophy, became the subject of linguistic research in the XX century after the structurallinguistic turn and the Sepir-Whorf hypothesis, which allowed expanding the ...
E. S. Astakhova
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Water and "the perforated water-jars" as a Form of the Other World Misery in Greek Thought, and its Development with the Romans: An Archaeological Study "الفكر الأورفي والفيثاغوري وصور العذاب الأخروى عند الإغريق ( جرار المياه المكسورة" نموذجاً)، وامتداده عند الرومان (الرؤوس الديونيسية نموذجا)- دراســـة أثريـــة - [PDF]

Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2021
My study focuses on a main but effective factor in the initiation of the religious ceremonies through the Orphic and the Pythagorean teachings. If not followed or neglected in One’s lifetime, his soul will be tortured and cursed in the Otherworld.
Mona Mohamed Elshahat
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The Ancient Greek Symbolism in the Religious Landscape. The Case of Delphi
Il simbolismo greco antico nel paesaggio religioso. Il caso di Delfi

Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2018
This paper discusses the ancient Greek beliefs from a different perspective; I attempt to approach the old themes in an interdisciplinary way. I refer to the studies of French anthropology and on the ethnological studies of the conceptualization of the ...
Andrea Malea
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Angels Raising Souls to Heaven: Images of Entering Life after Death during the Christianisation of Livonia and Prussia

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2023
With the Christianisation of the Lithuanians in the Middle Ages, fundamental changes brought new Christian images of the Otherworld and entry to it. The image of souls being raised to heaven by angels is one of the images that emerged in the wake of ...
Marius Ščavinskas
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Western and Eastern Fantasies: Possible Worlds and Isekai in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [PDF]

Ostrava Journal of English Philology, 2022
The study presents an analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland regarding its possibilities considering the function of imagination, mainly drawing on the literature exploring possible world theories.
Réka Kormos
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