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t. e. In Greek mythology, the Greek underworld, or Hades, is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence ( psyche) is separated from the corpse and transported to the underworld. [1]
The Great Divorce is a novel by the British author C. S. Lewis, published in 1945, based on a theological dream vision of his in which he reflects on the Christian conceptions of Heaven and Hell . The working title was Who Goes Home? but the final name was changed at the publisher's insistence.
The title page of the book, 1790, copy D, held by the Library of Congress [1]. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake.It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs.
The path to the afterlife for the deceased was a difficult one. There were various gates, doors and pylons located in Duat, [26] which the deceased would be required to pass. These gates had deities in charge of guarding them, sometimes there are more than 1,000 guardian deities listed, [27] according to Ancient funerary texts.
The Ladder of Divine Ascentderived from manuscripts of the 11th and 12th century, pictorially bringing insight to heaven from a 30 rung ladder. The strategic placement of the ladder which cuts the icon into two complementary triangles, representing heaven in the higher triangular module and earth in the lower.[2]
Heaven and Hell is the common English title of a book written by Emanuel Swedenborg in Latin, published in 1758. The full title is Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen, or, in Latin: De Caelo et Eius Mirabilibus et de inferno, ex Auditis et Visis. It gives a detailed description of the afterlife; how people live after the ...
The Garden of Earthly Delights ( Dutch: De tuin der lusten, lit. 'The garden of lusts') is the modern title [a] given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. [1] It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid ...
Aaru ( / ɑːˈruː /; Ancient Egyptian: jꜣrw, lit. 'reeds' ), or the Field of Reeds ( sḫt-jꜣrw, sekhet-aaru ), is the name for heavenly paradise in Egyptian mythology. Ruled over by Osiris, an Egyptian god, the location has been described as the ka of the Nile Delta . Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul resided in the heart, and ...