- In
ancient Gr**** cult-practice and literature, a
nekyia or
nekya (Ancient Gr****: νέκυια, νεκυία; νεκύα) is a "rite by
which ghosts were
called up and questioned...
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katabasis is
similar to a
nekyia or necromancy,
where one
experiences a
vision of the
underworld or its inhabitants; a
nekyia does not
generally involve...
- Odyssey, book XI, in
which Odysseus calls up the
spirits of the dead (the
nekyia). As ****phone
allows Tiresias to
retain his
powers of
clairvoyance after...
-
amplification to
raise the
unconscious to
conscious awareness. Jung uses the term
Nekyia to
describe the
descent into darkness,
where the ego fades. The eventual...
-
three named after the
parts of the
Magnum Opus. Dark
Night of the Soul
Nekyia Greenberg,
Arthur (March 2000). A
chemical history tour:
Picturing chemistry...
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Alexandria in the 3rd
century AD. The
classical Gr**** term was ἡ νέκυια (
nekyia), from the
episode of the
Odyssey in
which Odysseus visits the
realm of...
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mysteries Hero cult
Heroon Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris Prayer Sacrifice Animal sacrifice Hecatomb Holocaust...
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other realms,
shamans either descend into an
underworld (cf.
katabasis or
nekyia) or
ascend unto an
upper world (cf. anabasis) -
usually by
means of an axis...
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Reconstruction of
Nekyia by
Polygnotus 1892...
- animals, and even the
insensate rocks, to
follow him."
Others to
brave the
nekyia were Odysseus,
Theseus and Heracles; ****us also
overcame Medusa in a chthonic...
