Traveling within the World
Myth, Lore and Legends of Death
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The Seven Sermons to the Dead Septem Sermones ad Mortuos by Carl Gustav Jung, 1916 (Translation by H. G. Baynes)
Introduction to the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos"The Seven Sermons to the Dead," Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, might best be described as the "summary revelation of the Red Book." It is the only portion of the imaginative material contained in the Red Book manuscripts that C.G. Jung shared more or less…
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Threefold Death by Porcelain Doll
The threefold death, which is suffered by kings, heroes, and gods, is a putatively Proto-Indo-European theme – although it is attested in medieval accounts of Celtic and Germanic mythology.Some proponents of the trifunctional hypothesis distinguish two types of threefold deaths in Indo-European…
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Je fis de Macabre la danse by Porcelain Doll
Macabre is a French word that makes its first known appearance in the fourteenth century, in a fragmented poem by Jean Le Fevre; Je fis de Macabre la danse. The term is supposed by some sources to have developed from Maccabee, the name of the Christian martyrs who by tradition invented the prayer…
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Memento Mori
Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die". It refers to a genre of artworks that vary widely but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their mortality, an artistic theme dating back to antiquity.…
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Ars Moriendi
The Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") are two related Latin texts dating from about 1415 and 1450 which offer advice on the protocols and procedures of a good death, explaining how to "die well" according to Christian precepts of the late Middle Ages. It was written within the historical context of…
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~New discovery in Upper Egypt reveals ancient Osiris rituals~ by ★Mystic♥Pagan★©•*¨*•.¸¸¸.•*¨*•☆
Animal mummies found in Abydos shine light on religious rituals of ancient EgyptiansA team of archeologists from Toronto University has discovered a cache of animal mummies that reveal rituals carried out by ancient Egyptians for their god Osiris.The team discovered the remains of three hall…
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Garlands for the Deaths of English Maidens
Churches are full of history’s cast-offs. As the time-honoured repository of the community’s memories, the local church preserves what would otherwise never have survived to greet us today. And often, it is those everyday items which connect us most vividly to the past.Nowhere is this more so than…
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Jade burial suit
A Jade burial suit (Chinese: 玉衣; pinyin: yù yī; literally "jade suit") is a ceremonial suit made of pieces of jade in which royal members in Han Dynasty China were buried.The Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) was an imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty (221–207 BCE) and succeeded by…
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Igorot ways of death
I am a Filipina Igorot from philippines and would love to share to you , some beliefs of our ancestor when it comes to death.........the bontoc igorot does not take death very sorrowfully, and he does not take it at all passionately. A mother weeps a day for a dead child or her husband, but death…
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A Norse Funeral
Norse funerals, or the burial customs of Viking Age Norsemen (early medieval Scandinavians), are known both from archaeology and from historical accounts such as the Icelandic sagas, Old Norse poetry, and notably from the account of Ahmad ibn Fadlan. Throughout Scandinavia, there are many…
