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Soul / Spirit - 8 / 24 / 2002
soul
    - the animating and vital principle in human beings,
        credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion
        and often conceived as an immaterial entity. [AHD3]
    modern Western culture
    belief in a spiritual body that is separable or separate from the physical body
        human beings
    personal survival
        ego
        emotions
        memory
        thought processes
    Manes / Mani
        Manichaeism
            mind = good / body = bad
    re-incarnation
spirit
    - the vital principle or animating force within living beings [AHD3]
        all living beings
    - a being inhabiting or embodying a particular place, object, or natural phenomenon [AHD3]
    the animating force
    incarnation
    animism
        - attribution of conscious life to natural objects or to nature itself [AHD3]
        - belief in the existence of spiritual beings that are separable or separate from bodies [AHD3]
        - an immaterial force that animates the universe [AHD3]
        hunter / gatherer cultures
        tribal cultures
        unity and multiplicity
group soul (spirit) - species soul
    bear, salmon, eagle
spirits of place
    genius loci / numem [Roman]
    [Slavic]
        leshy - forest
        metsik - woods
        polevik - field
        vodyanoi - water
guardian spirits
    genius [Roman]
        - literally, begetter
        - a man's guardian spirit
    iuno / juno [Roman] 
        - a woman's guardian spirit
        - corresponds to the genius
spirits of the dead
    ancestors / elders
        the helpful dead [if they aren't offended]
    powerful
        age equates to power
            memory of the dead
                the more recent, the more individualistic
    the divine dead
    manes [Roman] - ancestoral
        Indo-European - ma1 - good / timely / seasonal [mature] [AHD3]
spirits of a craft/occupation/process
    Weyland Smith
    lares familiares [Roman] - household spirits / guardian spirits
    [Slavic]
        syen - guardian spirit(s) of the home
        bannik - washhouse
        domovoi - house
        dvorovoi - yard
        ovinnik - barn
good spirits
    daemon - lesser deity / semi-divine hero
    eudemon - good spirit
evil spirits
    demon - evil spirit
    murder victims
    suicides
    rusalka [Slavic] - drowning victims
    lemures [Roman] - the angry dead
possession
    demonic
    divine - loa
    trance medium
        submergence of possessed's identity
soul sickness
    loss / injury [see Shamanism]
        disassociation [see Psychology]
    contamination [see Systems of Purity]
death [see Death, Dying & Grief]
    survival after death
        the angry / restless dead
            jealous of the living
        ghost
        shade - remainder / echo
        shadow - vestige / remainder / left over
        lych / lich - corspe / body / form
    the after-life
        Heaven / Purgatory / Hell
            reward / pentinence / punishment
        Elysium / Hades
            abode of the blessed dead / abode of the shades of the dead
        Vahalla / Niflhel or Niflheim
            Odin / Hel
            hall for the (heroically) slain / underworld for those dead not killed in battle
        the Blessed Isles
            Avalon
        the West
            Atlantis / Lemuria
        the Summerland
    incarnation
    reincarnation
 
Dictionary of Roman Religion - Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins

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