Over There!!! Under Where??? Letterbox Hybrid
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Over There!!! Under Where???
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Welcome to
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!!!Underworld!!!
-Not Retrievable from Highway 14...Use 620th Street from the East
of the Cache...
The Underworld is a region which is thought to be under the surface
of the earth in some religions and in mythologies. It could be a
place where the souls of the recently departed go, and in some
traditions it is identified with Hell or the realm of death. In
other traditions, such as animism, it could be seen as the place
from which life appears to have originated (such as plant life,
water, etc.) and to which life must return at life's end, with no
negative undertones. In some slang, the Underworld can be a term
for the criminal groups of an area.
Egyptian Afterlife in the
Underworld:
The Egyptians had elaborate beliefs about death and the afterlife.
They believed that humans possessed a ka, or life-force, which left
the body at the point of death. In life, the ka received its
sustenance from food and drink, so it was believed that, to endure
after death, the ka must continue to receive offerings of food,
whose spiritual essence it could still consume. Each person also
had a ba, the set of spiritual characteristics unique to each
individual. Unlike the ka, the ba remained attached to the body
after death. Egyptian funeral rituals were intended to release the
ba from the body so that it could move freely, and to rejoin it
with the ka so that it could live on as an akh. However, it was
also important that the body of the deceased be preserved, as the
Egyptians believed that the ba returned to its body each night to
receive new life, before emerging in the morning as an akh.
Originally, however, the Egyptians believed that only the pharaoh
had a ba, and only he could become one with the gods; dead
commoners passed into a dark, bleak realm that represented the
opposite of life. The nobles received tombs and the resources for
their upkeep as gifts from the king, and their ability to enter the
afterlife was believed to be dependent on these royal favors. In
early times the deceased pharaoh was believed to ascend to the sky
and dwell among the stars. Over the course of the Old Kingdom,
however, he came to be more closely associated with the daily
rebirth of the sun god Ra and with the underworld ruler Osiris as
those deities grew more important.
During the late Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period, the
Egyptians gradually came to believe that possession of a ba and the
possibility of a paradisiacal afterlife extended to everyone. In
the fully developed afterlife beliefs of the New Kingdom, the soul
had to avoid a variety of supernatural dangers in the Duat, before
undergoing a final judgment known as the "Weighing of the Heart".
In this judgment, the gods compared the actions of the deceased
while alive (symbolized by the heart) to Ma'at, to determine
whether he or she had behaved in accordance with Ma'at. If the
deceased was judged worthy, his or her ka and ba were united into
an akh. Several beliefs coexisted about the akh's destination.
Often the dead were said to dwell in the realm of Osiris, a lush
and pleasant land in the underworld. The solar vision of the
afterlife, in which the deceased soul traveled with Ra on his daily
journey, was still primarily associated with royalty, but could
extend to other people as well. Over the course of the Middle and
New Kingdoms, the notion that the akh could also travel in the
world of the living, and to some degree magically affect events
there, became increasingly prevalent.
Ancient Greek and Roman Afterlife in the
Underworld:
The Greek god Hades is known in Greek mythology as the king of the
underworld, a place where souls live after death. The Greek god
Hermes, the messenger of the gods, would take the dead soul of a
person to the underworld (sometimes called Hades or the House of
Hades). Hermes would leave the soul on the banks of the River Styx,
the river between life and death. Charon, also known as the
ferry-man, would take the soul across the river to Hades, if the
soul had gold (The family of the dead soul would put coins under
the deceased's tongue). Once crossed, the soul would be judged by
Aeacus, Rhadamanthus and King Minos. The soul would be sent to
Elysium, Tartarus, Asphodel Fields, or the Fields of Punishment.
The Elysium Fields were for the ones that were good and sinned
minimally. It was green (plants), happy and the sun always shined.
Tartarus was for the people that defied the gods, did nothing but
sin, or were monsters. The Asphodel Fields simply existed. Those
whose sins equalled their goodness, lived and did nothing in life,
or were not judged. The Fields of Punishment were for people that
had sinned often, but not so much as to be deserving of Tartarus.
In Tartarus, the soul would be punished (dipped in lava, burned at
stake, the rack, etc.). Some heroes of Greek legend are allowed to
visit the underworld. The Romans had a similar belief system about
the afterlife, with Hades becoming known as Pluto. In the ancient
Greek myth about Hercules, he needs to travel to the underworld to
capture Cerberus as one of his tasks.
Data Source: Wikipedia:
Underworld
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