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The Journey of the Souls of the Dead To the Isles of the Blessed

The Journey of the Souls of the Dead To the Isles of the Blessed THE JOURNEY OF THE SOULS OF THE DEAD TO THE ISLES OF THE BLESSED BY H. WAGENVOORT Is it daring too much to wish to discuss a theme like this, for which, as far as it has hitherto appeared to me, there are so few records available in literature and elsewhere? Is it, furthermore, going too far to proceed from the thought that belief in an existence after death on the Isles, or the Island, of the Blessed must be older than Homeric times and must have been peculiar to the ancestors of the Greeks about the end of the second millennium B. C. ? Of course, I know very well that the common assumption, interpreted among others by O. Gigon 1), is that 'ancient conceptions' did exist regarding a home for the dead "im fernen Westen jenseits vom Sonnenuntergang (Inseln der Seligen, Elysion, Reich des Kronos) oder vor allem in der Himmelshbhe gesucht: in oder jenseits der obersten und reinsten Atherregion oder in der Gestimwelt", but that the new conception was "dass nicht nur Auserwahlte zu den Gottern aufsteigen und entriickt werden konnten, sondern dass der Mensch seinem Wesen nach ein Stuck Gottheit in sich enthalte; er http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

The Journey of the Souls of the Dead To the Isles of the Blessed

Mnemosyne , Volume 24 (2): 113 – Jan 1, 1971

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Brill
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© 1971 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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1568-525X
DOI
10.1163/156852571X00505
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THE JOURNEY OF THE SOULS OF THE DEAD TO THE ISLES OF THE BLESSED BY H. WAGENVOORT Is it daring too much to wish to discuss a theme like this, for which, as far as it has hitherto appeared to me, there are so few records available in literature and elsewhere? Is it, furthermore, going too far to proceed from the thought that belief in an existence after death on the Isles, or the Island, of the Blessed must be older than Homeric times and must have been peculiar to the ancestors of the Greeks about the end of the second millennium B. C. ? Of course, I know very well that the common assumption, interpreted among others by O. Gigon 1), is that 'ancient conceptions' did exist regarding a home for the dead "im fernen Westen jenseits vom Sonnenuntergang (Inseln der Seligen, Elysion, Reich des Kronos) oder vor allem in der Himmelshbhe gesucht: in oder jenseits der obersten und reinsten Atherregion oder in der Gestimwelt", but that the new conception was "dass nicht nur Auserwahlte zu den Gottern aufsteigen und entriickt werden konnten, sondern dass der Mensch seinem Wesen nach ein Stuck Gottheit in sich enthalte; er

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Published: Jan 1, 1971

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