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Anapilis (2000 Album)
Anapilis is a fictional mountain, allegedly the place of the afterlife in the Lithuanian mythology, pagan mythology of ancient Lithuanians. Etymology Anapilis is Lithuanized from Polish ''Anafielas'', and "back-etymologized" in Lithuanian as "wikt:ana, ana" (that) + "wikt:polis, pilis" (castle).Justyna Prusinowska"Anafielas i Walhalla przeglądają się w Niemnie. Wędrówka w zaświaty litewskie i skandynawskie" ''Science Journals . Folk Architecture Museum and Ethnographic Park in Olwsztynek'', vol. 1, no. 1, 2010, pp. 47-63 Anafielas was recorded or invented by Theodor Narbutt in his 1835 volume of ''Dzieje starożytne narodu litewskiego''. Narbutt is the only independent source of the term. Since he is known to List of Lithuanian gods and mythological figures#Theodor Narbutt, invent a large number of pseudo-pagan deities, in modern times Anapilis/Anafielas is considered pseudo-mythological as well. Still, it is well entrenched in the modern Lithuanian culture. As Bronys Savuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afterlife
The afterlife (also referred to as life after death) is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's identity or their stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body. The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit of an individual, which carries with it and may confer personal identity or, on the contrary, nirvana. Belief in an afterlife is in contrast to the belief in oblivion after death. In some views, this continued existence takes place in a spiritual realm, while in others, the individual may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past. In this latter view, such rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again continuously until the individual gains entry to a spiritual realm or otherworld. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
