The Pagan Book of the Dead: Ancestral Visions of the Afterlife and Other Worlds

by Claude Lecouteux

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An extensive look at the cartography and folklore of the afterlife worlds as seen by our ancestors

• Examines how ancient European cultures viewed the beyond, including the Blessed Isles of early Greek and Celtic faith, the Hebrew Sheol, Hades from Homer’s Odyssey, Hel and Valhalla of the Norse, and the Aralu of Babylon

• Shows how medieval accounts of journeys into the Other World represent the first recorded near-death experiences

• Connects medieval afterlife beliefs and NDE narratives with shamanism, looking in particular at psychopomps, power animals, the double, the fetch, and...Read more
  • ISBN10 1644110474
  • ISBN13 9781644110478
  • Publish Date 15 October 2020 (first published 1 September 2020)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and Company
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 320
  • Language English