In ancient Greek cult-practice and literature, a nekyia or nekya (Ancient Greek: 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...
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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...
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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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animals, and even the insensate rocks, to follow him." Others to brave the nekyia were Odysseus, Theseus and Heracles; Perseus also overcame Medusa in a chthonic...
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Alexandria in the 3rd century AD. The Classical Greek term was ἡ νέκυια (nekyia), from the episode of the Odyssey in which Odysseus visits the realm of...
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Odyssey, book XI, in which Odysseus calls up the spirits of the dead (the nekyia). As Persephone allows Tiresias to retain his powers of clairvoyance after...
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UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. Karanika, Andromache. 2011. "The End of the Nekyia: Odysseus, Heracles, and the Gorgon in the Underworld." Arethusa 44.1: 1–27...
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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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father; Odysseus' descent to the Underworld (Odyssey 11) is known as the Nekyia. Possibly to be identified with the second-century AD grammarian Eutychios...
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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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Reconstruction of Nekyia by Polygnotus 1892...
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The exceptions, Heracles and Theseus, are heroic. Even Odysseus in his Nekyia (Odyssey, xi) calls up the spirits of the departed, rather than descend...
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Akrasia Deindividuation Identical particles Identity formation Indiscernibles Nekyia Positive disintegration Principle of individuation Rationalization (sociology)...
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Nekyia. Persephone supervising Sisyphus pushing his rock in the Underworld. Attic black-figure amphora, ca. 530 BC. From Vulci. Staatliche Antikensammlungen...
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1, 71–72. Dieterich, Albrecht (1893). Nekyia: Beiträge zur Erklärung der neuentdeckten Petrusapokalypse [Nekyia: Contributions to the understanding of...
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Odyssey Phrases In medias res Between Scylla and Charybdis Related Telemachy Nekyia Trojan Horse Suitors of Penelope The Odyssey Old Man of the Sea The Apotheosis...
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ISBN 978-0-89236-465-7. Retrieved 23 September 2013. Jacobsthal, Paul (1934). "The Nekyia Krater in New York". Metropolitan Museum Studies. 5 (1): 117–145. doi:10...
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Ferrer, Maria McKee, Rob Zabrecky, Dean Ogle, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kristina Nekyia, Jim Akin". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2016-01-05. "Directorial Debut of Jim...
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