Afterlife
Afterlife
In philosophy, religion, mythology, and fiction, the afterlife is known as the concept of a realm, in which the necessary part of an individual's identity continues to live on after the death of the body. Belief in the afterlife, which may be naturalistic or supernatural, is in contrast to the belief in nothingness after death. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics. In many cultures, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual realm, and in some culture, the person may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, with no memory of what they did in the past. Rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again until the person’s gains entry to a spiritual realm. From Plato and the early Greeks, through Jesus and Paul, a belief in some kind of survival of the soul after death has been clearly acknowledged.
Beliefs about the afterlife can be somewhat vague and fluid but death was defined as the separation of body and soul. Two strands of thought existed in the suggestion to the location of the dead. On one hand, the remains were laid to rest in a particular place. On the other hand, there is the possibility that the deceased passed into a new existence. The belief that the deceased lived on in the tomb is known as the "eternal house," when constructing tombs and the interior of sarcophagi to resemble a home, and having offered foods and drinks placed in the tomb.
In Book XI of Homer’s Odyssey, there is a glimpse into the Greek underworld, as it was expected from Homeric times and before. Homer’s writings were the first to be documentation on this topic, but they come from a long history of oral stories that were widespread in Greek society for many years. In the Odyssey, Homer describes more of the circumstances of afterlife than the scenery of the underworld. His depiction of Odysseus’s journey to the underworld is known as a spiritual adventure. To get there, Odysseus must sail
In philosophy, religion, mythology, and fiction, the afterlife is known as the concept of a realm, in which the necessary part of an individual's identity continues to live on after the death of the body. Belief in the afterlife, which may be naturalistic or supernatural, is in contrast to the belief in nothingness after death. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics. In many cultures, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual realm, and in some culture, the person may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, with no memory of what they did in the past. Rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again until the person’s gains entry to a spiritual realm. From Plato and the early Greeks, through Jesus and Paul, a belief in some kind of survival of the soul after death has been clearly acknowledged.
Beliefs about the afterlife can be somewhat vague and fluid but death was defined as the separation of body and soul. Two strands of thought existed in the suggestion to the location of the dead. On one hand, the remains were laid to rest in a particular place. On the other hand, there is the possibility that the deceased passed into a new existence. The belief that the deceased lived on in the tomb is known as the "eternal house," when constructing tombs and the interior of sarcophagi to resemble a home, and having offered foods and drinks placed in the tomb.
In Book XI of Homer’s Odyssey, there is a glimpse into the Greek underworld, as it was expected from Homeric times and before. Homer’s writings were the first to be documentation on this topic, but they come from a long history of oral stories that were widespread in Greek society for many years. In the Odyssey, Homer describes more of the circumstances of afterlife than the scenery of the underworld. His depiction of Odysseus’s journey to the underworld is known as a spiritual adventure. To get there, Odysseus must sail