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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Elysium

In Greek mythology, Elysium was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). "Elysium is an obscure and mysterious name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios. (Burkert 1985 p. 198) The Elysian fields, or sometimes Elysian plains, were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. Two passages in Homer established for Greeks the nature of the Afterlife: the d ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia II - Elysium - Elysium in Literature Even though they are a pagan images, there are several mentions of the term in the Church fathers. Among the poets to interpret Elysium is Virgil, who describes an encounter there between Aeneas and his father Anchises. Virgil's Elysium knows perpetual spring and shady groves, with its own sun and lit by its own stars solemque suum, sua sidera norunt (Aeneid book vi:541). In the Renaissance, the heroic population of the Elysian Fields tended to outshine its formerly dreary pagan reputation; the Elysian Fields borrowed so ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Paradise

The word paradise is derived from the Avestan word of pairidaeza (a walled enclosure), which is a compound of pairi- (around), a cognate of the Greek peri-, and -diz (to create, make). Sources as early as Xenophon in his Anabasis report the famed Persian "paradise" garden. The form of the word that is now understood as "heaven" or any environment that is ultimately pleasurable" is derived from the Greek paradeisos used in the Septuagint to mean the Garden of Eden. In the New Testament paradise meant a paradise restored o ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Elysian Fields

Elysian Fields can refer to: Hoboken, New Jersey park, Elysian Fields where first Baseball game between clubs is believed to have been played in 1846 The New York band Elysian Fields Elysium, a section of Hades from Greek Mythology A song by the thrash metal band Megadeth. The title track of the 2003 E.P. from CCM Hard Rock band Least Among Us. Other related archives1846, Baseball, CCM, Elysian Fields, Elysium, Greek

Elysium: Encyclopedia - Amazonis Planitia

Amazonis Planitia is one of the smoothest plains on Mars. It is located between the Tharsis and Elysium volcanic provinces to the west of Olympus Mons in the Valles Marineris region of the Memnonia quadrangle. Its topography exhibits extremely smooth features at several different lengths of scale. [1] Other related archivesElysium, Mars, Memnonia, Olympus Mons, Tharsis, Valles Marineris

Elysium: Encyclopedia - Afterlife

The afterlife (or life after death) is a generic term referring to a continuation of existence, typically spiritual and experiential, beyond this world, or after death. This article is about current generic and widely held or reported concepts of afterlife. See also: Underworld, for a comprehensive catalog of specific traditions about afterlife. Afterlife - Afterlife as a belief. Many people believe in an afterlife. It is generally described as a non-verifiable and non-falsifiable belie ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Heaven

Heaven is an afterlife concept found in many religions or spiritual philosophies. Those who believe in heaven generally hold that it (or Hell) is the final afterlife destination of many or all humans. In unusual instances, humans have had, according to many testimonies and traditions, personal knowledge of Heaven. They presume this is for the purpose of teaching the rest of humanity about life, Heaven, and God. Heaven - Conceptions. While there are abundant and varied sources for conceptions of Heave ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Augoeides

"Augoeides" can be translated as "luminous body." It appears that Porphyry used it and Thomas Taylor commented on it. The term is encountered in the literature of Neo-Platonic theurgy and was popularized in the 19th and 20th centuries by the Theosophists and the Golden Dawn. To quote Thomas Taylor's comment on Porphyry: "We are afterwards sent through ample Elysium, and a few of us possess the joyful plains: till a long period, when the revolving orb of time has perfected its circulation, frees the soul from its concrete stains, and l ...

Elysium: Encyclopedia - Zagreus

In Greek mythology, Zagreus was identified with the god Dionysus and was worshipped by followers of Orphism. According to the followers of Orphism, Zeus had laid with either Demeter or Persephone in the form of a snake. The result of their union was Zagreus. Zeus had intended Zagreus to be his heir, but a jealous Hera persuaded the Titans to kill the child. The Titans distracted Zagreus with toys, then carried him away and tore Zagreus to pieces. When the Titans were finished, nothing was left but Zagreus' heart, which A ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Ages of Man

The Ages of Man are the stages of human existence on the Earth according to Classical mythology. In his Works and Days, the Boeotian poet Hesiod described Five Ages of Man: The Golden Age - This took place during the reign of Cronus. Peace and harmony prevailed during this age. Humans did not grow old, but died peacefully. Spring was eternal and people were fed on acorns from a great oak as well as wild fruits and honey that dripped from the trees. This race eventually died out. The Silver Ag ...

Elysium: Encyclopedia - Tír na nÓg

Tír na nÓg, called in English the Land of the Young, was the most popular of the Otherworlds in Irish mythology, perhaps best known from the myth of Oisín and Niamh of the Golden Hair. It was where the Tuatha Dé Danann or sídhe settled when they left Ireland's surface, and was visited by some of Ireland's greatest heroes. Tír na nÓg is similar to other mythical Irish lands such as Mag Mell and Ablach. Tír na nÓg was considered a place beyond the edges of the map, located on an island far to the west. It could be reache ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Menelaus

This article is about Menelaus the king of Sparta. For the mathematician and astronomer, see Menelaus of Alexandria. Menelaus (also transliterated as Meneláos), in Greek mythology, was a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and Aerope. Atreus was murdered by his nephew, Aegisthus, who took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with his father Thyestes. During this period Menelaus and his brother, Agamemnon, took refuge with Tyndareus, king of Sparta, whose daughters Helen and Clytemnestra they respectively married. ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Hades

Hades (Greek: ᾍδης - Hadēs or Ἅιδης - Háidēs) ("unseen") means both the ancient Greek abode of the dead and the god of that underworld. The word originally referred to just the god; haidou, its genitive, was short for "the house of Hades", and eventually the nominative, too, came to designate the abode of the dead. (A related Hebrew word, She'Ol, for the abode ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Underworld

Underworld - Aboriginal mythology. Beralku Underworld - Akkadian mythology. Ereshkigal Nergal Underworld - Babylonian mythology. Kurnugia Underworld - Buddhist mythology. Naraka (also Neraka) Underworld - Celtic mythology. Annwn Mag Mell ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Limbo

In some Roman Catholic circles, limbo describes the temporary status of the souls of good persons who died before the resurrection of Jesus, and the permanent status of the unbaptised who die in infancy (without having committed any personal sins, but without having been freed from original sin). Limbo comes from the latin limbus meaning a hem or an edge or a boundary. While "limbo" is often popularly understood to be a "place where souls go", the term also describes and reflects theological uncertainty. As such, limbo i ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Symphony No. 9 Beethoven

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, it includes part of the ode An die Freude ("Ode To Joy") by Friedrich Schiller, as text sung by soloists and a chorus in the last movement. It is the first example of a major composer using the human voice on the same level with instruments in a symphony. The symphony may be the best known of all works of European classical music, and is considered one of Beethoven's greatest masterpieces, composed wh ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Minos

In Greek mythology, Minos was a semi-legendary king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. The Minoan civilization has been named after him. By his wife, Pasiphae, he was the father of Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus and many others. Minos, along with his brothers, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, was raised by King Asterion (or Asterius) of Crete. When Asterion died, he gave his throne to Minos, who banished Sarpedon and ( ...

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Elysium: Encyclopedia - Antillia

Antillia (or Antilia) was a phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean far to the west of Spain. This mythical island had several other names such as Isle of Seven Cities, Isla das Sete Cidades (Portuguese), Septe Cidades, Sanbrandan (or St Brendan), etc. Antillia was also identified with islands including the Isles of the Blest and the Fortunate Islands. The origin of the name is quite uncertain. The oldest suggested etymology (1455) fancifully connects it with the name of the Pl ...

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