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“Where have we come and where shall we end?”: An Examination of Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall as a Contemporary Otherworld Journey [PDF]

, 2020
Voyages to the underworld, upperworld, and worlds aside have historically populated global literary and theological traditions. Any analysis of an otherworld voyage must take into consideration the deeply set theological origins of this trope.
Justice, Kayla
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Giollas na gCos Dubh'

Scottish Studies
The author recorded the tale entitled ‘Giollas na gCos Dubh’ from Pádraig Ó Nia, originally from the island of Fínis, Co. Galway, in 1982. To date, only two other versions of the tale have been identified, although some motifs are found in other ...
Ríonach uí Ógáin
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The journey to the after-life in the city of Braga of the XVIII century: the experience of the “last hours” in the terrestrial world

Diálogos, 2016
This article, based on our broaderwork of doctoral investigation about the experience of deat hand the soul salvation in the Braga ofthe XVIII century, wants to expose and analyse what were the regular and spiritual procedures that marked the “journey ...
Norberto Tiago Ferraz
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A' Chluais-chiùil ann an Dualchas nan Gàidheal

Scottish Studies
In generations past, Gaels had difficulty separating melody from words. When discussing a song, for example, someone who knew the air to a song was thereby assumed to know the words as well.
William Lamb
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Defamiliarizing Romance: The Arabic sīra in the English Literary Classroom

Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 7-9, July-September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article explores the ways in which the Arabic sīra a genre loosely akin to the romance or chivalric epic can be incorporated into undergraduate teaching on medieval romance. Drawing on my own pedagogical experience and guided by ongoing critical work on decolonising and diversifying the curriculum, I demonstrate the values and challenges ...
Shazia Jagot
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Identification of the network structure of the Hebrew Bible texts based upon the notion of the otherworld and the afterlife

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
In this paper, we apply the methods of graph theory to reveal hidden relations within the corpus of the Hebrew Bible texts. The structure of relations between different texts was studied based upon their interpretation of the otherworld and the afterlife.
Igor R. Tantlevskij, Elizaveta Evmenova, Dmitry Gromov   +2 more
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El viaje del alma al más allá. Un paralelo entre Hititas y Órficos

Revista de Filología Románica, 2006
The paper compares two tales that describe a journey of the human soul to the underworld: one of them was included in a Hittite ritual called «The Voyage of the Immortal Human Soul» and the other that was told in the Greek texts written in the Orphic ...
Alberto Bernabé
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The Fiddler and the Waterfall: The Quest for Inspiration in Norwegian Legends of Fiddlers

Scottish Studies
Tracing cultural affinities between stories recorded in the Northern Isles of Scotland (especially Shetland) and those found in the wider Nordic world, the author examines legends and beliefs connecting fiddle music and the supernatural.
Terry Gunnell
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The influence of Ibn Arabi’s thoughts on Mulla Sadra’s theory of universal salvation [PDF]

حکمت صدرایی, 2016
We can consider Sadra’s salvation theory as an alternative to the three other theories on otherworld salvation, i.e. exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism .
mohammad sadegh zahedi, mohammad javad shams, ali sedaghat   +2 more
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I percorsi dell’acqua

Otium, 2017
In the history of the ancient world, water plays an important role as the quickest way to move from one site to the other, for religious reasons, as a way to reach the Otherworld. This last aspect is analysed in the paper starting from Mycenaean larnakes,
Marco Rendeli
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