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Coping with time and death in the Ancient Near East

Religion Compass, Volume 15, Issue 11, November 2021., 2021
Abstract All humans, past and future, are forced to grapple with the abstract phenomenon of passing and ending time, as well as ideas about time, such as eternity and finality. Death especially is a confrontation with the passing, ending, irreversibility, and unpredictability of time, over which humans have little to no power. In response to the threat
Irene Sibbing‐Plantholt
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The Celtic Otherworld in Patrick Rothfuss\u27s Kingkiller Chronicle

, 2020
As readers of fantasy literature, we look for clues in the stories we read, familiar landmarks whose shapes we unconsciously know. These landmarks ensure that, while the stories we read may be new to us, we know (or think we know) where it leads.
MacDonald, Cameron
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L’inferno irlandese

CoSMO, 2022
Visions and representations of Hell in the works of J.M. Synge, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats often originate in a conflation of the Irish and Italian literary traditions, where references to Dante’s Divine Comedy are intermingled with elements deriving ...
Ilaria Natali
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Visions et spectres dans la littérature norroise : aperçus sur la culture germanique ancienne

Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2012
Ancient Germanic culture was kept in an exceptionally accurate way in Old Norse literature such as it has been recorded by medieval Icelandic clerics.
Daniel Lacroix
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Nietzsche: Three Genealogies of Christianity

Genealogy, 2022
Nietzsche develops three important genealogies of central aspects of Christianity: one concerning a certain syncretism between Judaism and the cult of Dionysus; a second concerning a “slave revolt in morality”; and a third concerning doctrines about an ...
Michael Neil Forster
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Divide and the Rules: A Study on the Colonial Inheritance of Digital Games

Humanities, 2023
The current article is an exploration into the colonial inheritance of digital games. It argues that the pervasiveness and persistence of discursive practices, like imagining the play world as the otherworld and valuing the play world for its pedagogical
Prabhash Ranjan Tripathy
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Koerad Eesti asukate viikingiaja maailmapildis [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2006
In the article I am going to give a concise overview of the relationship between dogs and people in the context of Estonian prehistory. The dog has been accompanying humans ever since the arrival of the first people on Estonian territory ca 9000 BC ...
Tõnno Jonuks
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Non-Modern Culture in Brian Friel’s Plays

ABEI Journal, 2014
This article argues that Friel’s concern with paganism goes beyond his well-known play Dancing at Lughnasa: it actually extends to Faith Healer and Wonderful Tennesssee.
Chu He
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Metaphorical Death and Conceptions of the Otherworld in the Twelfth-Century British Isles [PDF]

, 2022
The inevitability of death is a concept explored throughout the ages, and in the medieval world, scholars sought to make sense of this aspect of life. Because of this, beliefs about death and the afterlife permeated through much of society and underwent ...
Ledbetter, Bryanna
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Appropriating the Classical Underworld: The Otherworld and its Spectacle in 'Sir Orfeo' [PDF]

Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2014
In the Middle English Breton lay, Sir Orfeo (c. 1340), the Underworld transforms from its classical prototype of an ominous realm of shadows into the marvellous Otherworld.
Blythe Hsing-wen Tsai
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