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

However, the Fairy Otherworld in “Sir Orfeo” is depicted as ambiguous and dispels any association with religion but favours the irrational unknown. The Otherworld has paradoxical imagery of both Heaven and Hell, it is first introduced with language that parallels the description of Heavenly Jerusalem. The land is constantly bright ‘For when it schuld be therk and night, / The riche stones light gonne / As bright as doth at none the sonne’ (ll.270-272) which shows the heavenly quality and emphasis

The “ghost” at the end of the movie is Xiao-kang’s dead father. In my opinion, this scene is trying to indicate that the distance from Xiao-kang to Paris is similar to the distance from Xiao-kang’s mom to the “otherworld”. In this movie, there were two almost identical relationships—the relationship between Xiao-kang’s father and mother and the relationship between Xiao-kang and Xiang-qi. I think the director is trying to use people’s relationships to show that when there’s an unachievable distance

In the book otherworld journey, Carol Zaleski uses various evidences to reach her conclusions organizing personal, scientific, and historical evidences. She arranges clear difference between medieval and modern otherworld journey at the end of the book by comparing two perspectives. In medieval period, death was considered as a punishment in order to consolidate the Catholic teachings on purgatory and penance. On the other hand, in modern accounts, the review of one’s past deeds is no longer an ordeal

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

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

“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

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 :

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