Adonis (redirect from Greek god adonis) "dying-and-rising god" found throughout all cultures. In the mid-twentieth century, some scholars began to criticise the designation of "dying-and-rising... 37 KB (4,086 words) - 08:36, 20 April 2024 |
Death or departure of the gods (redirect from Myth of the dying god) A dying god, or departure of the gods, is a motif in mythology in which one or more gods (of a pantheon) die, are destroyed, or depart permanently from... 3 KB (396 words) - 16:33, 11 February 2023 |
Jesus in comparative mythology (redirect from Jesus Christ and comparative mythology) truly "died". By the end of the twentieth century, most scholars had come to agree that the notion of a "dying-and-rising god" was an invention and that... 102 KB (11,430 words) - 18:19, 15 April 2024 |
Dumuzid (redirect from Tammuz (god)) nineteenth and early twentieth century scholarship of religion, Tammuz was widely seen as a prime example of the archetypal dying-and-rising god, but the... 63 KB (6,744 words) - 23:15, 22 April 2024 |
Dionysus (redirect from Bacchus (god)) blood-offerings, and he acts as a divine communicant between the living and the dead. He is sometimes categorised as a dying-and-rising god. Romans identified... 210 KB (24,505 words) - 06:36, 18 April 2024 |
basis of Jesus as a syncretic dying-and-rising god, with early Christianity beginning as a Greco-Roman mystery. The book and its "Jesus Mysteries thesis"... 3 KB (297 words) - 03:36, 21 April 2024 |
Rigor mortis (category Latin medical words and phrases) Person, Human, Putrefaction." Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. 2011. Web. 4 December 2011. <Rigor Mortis and Other Postmortem Changes - burial, body, life,... 7 KB (812 words) - 08:18, 13 April 2024 |
Resurrection (category Religious belief and doctrine) back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized... 65 KB (7,894 words) - 08:25, 24 April 2024 |
a dying person. The rationale is that someone who is dying or believes death to be imminent would have less incentive to fabricate testimony, and as... 8 KB (1,007 words) - 16:49, 28 February 2024 |
List of death deities (redirect from God of death) Valhalla and gets half of those who die in battle; there they train for Ragnarök Rán, the sea goddess who collects the drowned in her net Aita, god of the... 34 KB (4,359 words) - 03:33, 8 April 2024 |
fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions in the throat and upper airways. Those who are dying may lose their ability to swallow and may have increased... 4 KB (406 words) - 04:56, 6 January 2024 |
Death from laughter (redirect from Dying of laughter) interest in anything else, and die. The Clean House, a play where dying of laughter is a reoccurring theme. Inwood, B. and Gerson, L.P. (2008) The Stoics... 14 KB (1,649 words) - 02:30, 11 April 2024 |
between the Mithraic mysteries and the cult of Jesus. Although the god Mithras was not exactly a dying-and-rising god, some similarities are meaningful... 85 KB (10,544 words) - 21:38, 17 April 2024 |
translation of the Arabic source should read: "In one account, ʿAlī, may God be best pleased with him, was called upon, while he was washing him [the... 9 KB (1,142 words) - 00:39, 2 April 2024 |
Dignified death (redirect from Dying with dignity) dying with dignity or dignity in dying is an ethical concept that refers to the end-of-life process avoiding suffering and maintaining control and autonomy... 2 KB (230 words) - 22:49, 15 April 2024 |
Shadow person Umibōzu Ubume Vengeful ghost Yūrei Yuki-onna Wraith Dying-and-rising deity Afterlife Death (personification) Grógaldr Immortality Necromancy... 8 KB (842 words) - 17:03, 23 April 2024 |
of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell Dying-and-rising god, a religious motif in which a god dies and is resurrected Ego death, a loss of subjective... 584 bytes (121 words) - 03:22, 6 February 2016 |
Euthanasia (section Passive and active euthanasia) cases; 40.7% did not, and the remaining 13.5% felt it depended. In the United Kingdom, the assisted dying campaign group Dignity in Dying cites research in... 72 KB (8,307 words) - 11:20, 25 April 2024 |
Memento mori (category Latin religious words and phrases) nothing else but dying and being dead". The Stoics of classical antiquity were particularly prominent in their use of this discipline, and Seneca's letters... 39 KB (3,796 words) - 22:04, 21 April 2024 |
targets Glennys Howarth; Oliver Leaman (2003). Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. Routledge. p. 416. ISBN 978-1-136-91360-0. "Where Does the Concept of... 8 KB (1,011 words) - 15:12, 8 December 2023 |
Manner of death (redirect from Died of old age) likely be listed as having died from natural causes. "Death by natural causes" is sometimes used as a euphemism for "dying of old age", which is considered... 14 KB (1,565 words) - 18:17, 6 February 2024 |
Sokushinbutsu (category Religion and suicide) Buddhist countries, especially in South Asia where monks are mummified after dying of natural causes, it is only in Japan that monks are believed to have induced... 11 KB (1,212 words) - 13:42, 6 March 2024 |
Necromancy (section Early and High Middle Age) do these things are an abomination unto the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee (KJV). Though... 32 KB (3,422 words) - 10:41, 1 April 2024 |
and after the death of a Christian. Sometimes a passing bell was first rung when the person was still dying, then the death knell upon the death, and... 8 KB (1,015 words) - 08:33, 4 January 2024 |
Christian mythology (section Dying God) into the Underworld, accounts of a dying-and-rising god, a flood myth, stories about the founding of a tribe or city, and myths about great heroes (or saints)... 91 KB (12,313 words) - 14:01, 26 April 2024 |