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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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