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- In ancient Gr**** cult practice and literature, a nekyia or nekya (Ancient Gr****: νέκυια, νεκυία; νεκύα) is a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned...
- katabasis is similar to a nekyia or necromancy, where one experiences a vision of the underworld or its inhabitants; a nekyia does not generally involve...
- amplification to raise the unconscious to conscious awareness. Jung uses the term Nekyia to describe the descent into darkness, where the ego fades. The eventual...
- three named after the parts of the Magnum Opus. Dark Night of the Soul Nekyia Greenberg, Arthur (March 2000). A chemical history tour: Picturing chemistry...
- at the Leiden University, obtaining his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the nekyia in the Odyssey. He also held a degree in Theology. He became pastor of Wijngaarden...
- mysteries Hero cult Heroön Hierophany Hieros gamos Hymns Incubation Komos Nekyia Omophagia Orgia Panegyris Prayer Sacrifice Animal sacrifice Hecatomb Holocaust...
- Tiresias appears to Odysseus during the nekyia of Odyssey Book XI, in this watercolor with tempera by the Anglo-Swiss Johann Heinrich Füssli, c. 1780–85...
-  1, 71–72. Dieterich, Albrecht (1893). Nekyia: Beiträge zur Erklärung der neuentdeckten Petrusapokalypse [Nekyia: Contributions to the understanding of...
- UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. Karanika, Andromache. 2011. "The End of the Nekyia: Odysseus, Heracles, and the Gorgon in the Underworld." Arethusa 44.1: 1–27...
- Alexandria in the 3rd century AD. The classical Gr**** term was ἡ νέκυια (nekyia), from the episode of the Odyssey in which Odysseus visits the realm of...