Otherworld

When it comes to celtic literature, the ‘Otherworld’ is a common theme found throughout various genres of literature which represents a sort of ‘heaven-like’ place. In Celtic mythology the Otherworld is depicted as a supernatural world that provides abundance, joy, and everlasting youth and beauty. We typically see the Otherworld as being very elusive, but in Celtic literature some mythical heroes get the opportunity to visit the Otherworld, sometimes by invite from one of it’s inhabitants or just

Emhain (42). This Otherworld is one in which treachery is unknown (43), there is “nothing but truth, and where there is neither age nor withering away, nor heaviness, nor sadness, nor jealousy nor envy, nor pride.” (46). To the quick reader, this land seems as one of pure beauty and joy, however, Bran and Cormac show the same land in a very different light through their individual crossing over. Both men bring very many differences in their stories of this particular otherworld. When comparing His

The symbolism of the girdle in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight changes and grows as the poem progresses, adding Gawain's honor and sin to seemingly separate ideas of an untamed nature related to the otherworld and animal instincts. Piotr Sadowski, in his The Knight on His Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, calls the girdle a symbol of “complex moral truth” that the other knights of the Round Table fail to learn from, as Gawain does. While I agree that the

“transparent,” yet he is unable to piece together that Cynthia is trying to send him a message from the otherworld: the two sides of life and death are nothing more than an idea speculated by man and ignored by fools who reside amongst their own ignorance (Nabokov). Nabokov further persuades his readers to believe in these paranormal messages by referring to dreams as a looking glass to the otherworld. “The darkness of absence and the darkness of sleep” serve to further emphasize the lack of understanding

two concept, one from each Celtic and Scandinavian Mythologies can be seen. The first concept is from Scandinavian mythology and is that of the idea of redemption or dying well. The second is from Celtic mythology and is the use of the "Other" or "Otherworld". From the two stories, The Faerie Queene and The Mabinogion, what would give the reader the greatest feeling of hope throughout them both would be the idea of comeuppance. To have the hope that in the end the good people will triumph and the

that the dead were transported to the Otherworld by the God Bile. Life continued in this location much as it had before death. The ancient Druids believed that the soul was immortal. After the person died in the Otherworld, their soul reincarnates and lives again in another living entity — either in a plant or the body of a human or other animal. After a person has learned enough at this level, they move on after death to a higher realm, which has its own Otherworld. This continues until the individual

are stories of heaven and earth being bridged in paralleled allegiance and of Gods who dwelled in the mountains and connected with the sky. The Celts believed that man had stemmed from the Gods, where posthumously, the soul would manifest in the otherworld, in a cyclical reincarnated manner until all knowledge was gained. This lead them to the Source- the highest realm where “all things are created from the source, including the Gods, [where all life was] just sparks from its flame”. Thus Caesar :

The Celts With the Celts, we have to go back two thousand years. The Celts lived in Britain before and after Jesus Christ was born. They were people in Iron Age and Medieval Europe and spoke Celtic language. We learn a lot about Celts through looking at objects made from iron and the material that have survived over time. They were a group of peoples that occupied lands stretching the British Isles to Galatia. Clothes The Celts liked brightly coloured clothes. The clothes were important to them;

As the Celtic Religion had laities, Celts, who revered the power of the word over the written document, little could be deciphered about their religious beliefs. However, after assessing the classical literature of Julius Caesar, Poseidonios and others, and certain archaeological and iconographic artefacts, it is made evident that the Celtics was an imminent, polytheistic religion which ran on animalistic beliefs. These beliefs which were filtered through Romans, Greeks and Christians suggested that

he would sleep with her in her crone form. After this coupling, she would transform into a beautiful woman. This is believed to be a metaphor for a Celtic realm flourishing under a new king’s rule. In addition, Cailleach was associated with the Otherworld just like Cernunnos. Furthermore, she was a Goddess of all aspects of nature. She was honored during harvest festivals and was primarily associated with the growth of plants. This was not her only role, because she was also a Goddess of the wilderness