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| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1410-1496 | medium | Creüsa’s larger-than-life phantom appears, calms Aeneas, says divine power prevents him from taking her away, foretells exile, sea travel, Hesperia, the Tiber, prosperity, kingship, and a royal bride, and says the mother of the gods keeps her in Troy’s borders. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2710-2746 | medium | Juno pities the long pain and difficult death and sends Iris to release the life because the woman is not dying by fate or deserved death, but before her day and in sudden madness. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END / BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET; lines 3315-3403 | high | At night Anchises' likeness descends by Jove's command, says Jove drove fire from the fleet, tells Aeneas to take chosen men to Italy, and orders him to meet him in the underworld through the Sibyl, where he will learn his line and destined city. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END / BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET; lines 3405-3466 | low | "In safety, as thou desirest, shall he reach the haven of Avernus. One will there be alone whom on the flood thou shalt lose and require; one life shall be given for many." | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3562-3611 | high | Aeneas asks the Sibyl to let him go to his beloved father, teach the way, and open the consecrated portals; he recalls carrying Anchises from flames and weapons and over the seas, and appeals to the Sibyl's power from Hecate. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3562-3611 | high | The Sibyl addresses Aeneas as sprung from gods' blood and says descent into hell is easy, but return to upper air is difficult; forest and Cocytus surround the way, and she mentions Stygian lake and dark Tartarus. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3562-3611 | high | The Sibyl describes the golden bough hidden in a shady tree, consecrated to nether Juno and ordained as Proserpine's gift; a second bough grows after the first, and only the fated seeker can pluck it. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3613-3702 | high | Twin doves descend, Aeneas recognizes them as his mother's birds, asks them to guide him, follows them to Avernus, sees the gold-shining bough on a tree, breaks it off, and takes it to the Sibyl. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3704-3794 | high | “They went darkling through the dusk beneath the solitary night, through the empty dwellings and bodiless realm of Dis.” | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3704-3794 | high | A road leads to Tartarus and Acheron's wave; Charon, dread ferryman, guards the streams and works a steel-blue galley loaded with the dead. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3704-3794 | high | The priestess explains that the pools of Cocytus and Stygian marsh are before them; the unsepultured cannot cross until buried and must wander for a hundred years. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3796-3885 | high | The soothsayer says Aeneas descends to meet his father in Erebus, reveals the hidden bough, and the waterman recognizes it, clears the benches, takes Aeneas aboard, and lands the prophetess and prince safely. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3887-3949 | high | Aeneas reaches fields of the renowned in war; Trojan dead gather around him, while Greek leaders and Agamemnon’s armies flee or cry faintly when they see him armed in the gloom. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3887-3949 | high | The Sibyl warns that time is passing, points to the forked road, identifies the right-hand path to Elysium and the left-hand path to punishment in hell, after which Deiphobus returns to darkness. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3951-4023 | high | Aeneas sees a triple-walled city by fiery Phlegethon, with an adamant gate, iron tower, Tisiphone at the entry, and sounds of torment within. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4025-4104 | high | The travelers arrive at the Fortunate Woodlands, a bright meadowed region where some souls practice games, wrestle, dance, sing, and are accompanied by a Thracian priest making music. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4106-4133 | high | After death, ingrained evils remain; souls are schooled in punishment, with some stretched to winds, some washed under the deep, and some burned in fire. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4135-4222 | medium | Anchises announces that he will rehearse Dardanian progeny and destinies, then identifies Silvius in the groves as a future child of Aeneas and Lavinia. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4224-4264 | high | Anchises and Aeneas wander through the broad vaporous plains; Anchises shows the whole scene, kindles Aeneas' spirit with coming glories, and instructs him about future wars, peoples, and tasks. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD / BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY; lines 4690-4772 | medium | Allecto raises rustling snaky wings and returns to Cocytus through the Vale of Amsanctus, described with wooded ridges, a torrent, a ghastly pool, and a chasm opening into Acheron. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY / BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER; lines 5518-5602 | medium | The shield includes hell, the gates of Dis, dooms of guilt, Catiline with Furies, and the good set apart with Cato delivering statutes. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP / BOOK TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH; lines 6957-7018 | medium | The Fates pass Lausus' last threads; Aeneas drives his sword through Lausus' shield and maternal gold-sewn tunic, blood fills his breast, and his life passes to the underworld. | record |
| Greek | Aesop's Fables; a new translation | THE BUTCHER AND HIS CUSTOMERS / HERCULES AND MINERVA / THE FOX WHO SERVED A LION / THE QUACK DOCTOR; lines 4878-4899 | medium | The doctor asks whether he is “fresh from the other world” and asks how departed friends are doing there. | record |
| Greek | Aesop's Fables; a new translation | THE BUTCHER AND HIS CUSTOMERS / HERCULES AND MINERVA / THE FOX WHO SERVED A LION / THE QUACK DOCTOR; lines 4878-4899 | medium | The man says the departed are comfortable because they have “drunk the water of oblivion” and forgotten life’s troubles. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 1719-1809 | high | A skilled young hunter pursues a large bear through dangerous mountain heights until it disappears into a hole on a bleak mountain summit. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 1811-1905 | high | An Ainu man seeking proof of the under-world enters an immense cavern at Sarubutsu, passes through darkness toward light, and emerges into Hades with trees, villages, rivers, sea, junks, and inhabitants including Ainu, Japanese, and people he knew when alive. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 1811-1905 | high | An Ainu man seeking proof of the under-world enters an immense cavern at Sarubutsu, passes through darkness toward light, and emerges into Hades with trees, villages, rivers, sea, junks, and inhabitants including Ainu, Japanese, and people he knew when alive. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AUDITORS. / LOCAL SECRETARIES. / HONORARY SECRETARIES. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 209-263 | medium | “the theme of the mortal who eats the deadly food of Hades ... has its typical example in the story of Persephone” | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | END OF THE STORY OF THE BULL WHO WON THE BET. / END OF THE STORY OF THE WISE BIRD AND THE FOOLS. / END OF BOOK I. CHAPTER IV. / INDEX.; lines 13949-14322 | low | Index entries mention war in heaven, heaven's glories shown to a sinner, and hell becoming filled with light. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 3447-3547 | medium | “Embarking in the ship of the Truth, I will carry across with me men and angels.” | record |
| Sufi | The Confessions of Al Ghazzali | EDITORIAL NOTE / NORTHBROOK SOCIETY, 185 PICCADILLY, W. / INTRODUCTION / BIRTH OF GHAZZALI; lines 150-224 | medium | Ahmad’s account says Al Ghazzali, at dawn, performed ablution and prayer, requested and kissed his grave-clothes, placed them on his eyes, spoke of obeying the command to go into the King, stretched out his feet, and went to meet Him. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER III. THE BATTLE OF GABHRA / BOOK TEN: THE END OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. DEATH OF BRAN / CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN; lines 14164-14263 | medium | "Niamh of the Golden Head is my name"; she says she is "the daughter of the King of the Country of the Young." | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TEN: THE END OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. DEATH OF BRAN / CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN; lines 14266-14358 | medium | Caoilte enters a hill of the Sidhe to be healed of old wounds; the narrator says whether he returned is unknown and questions a tradition linking him with Patrick at the same time as Oisin. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN / BOOK ELEVEN: OISIN AND PATRICK. / CHAPTER I. OISIN'S STORY; lines 14361-14452 | high | Oisin says that he and golden-haired Niamh turned westward from land, and the sea went away before them and filled in waves behind them. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN / BOOK ELEVEN: OISIN AND PATRICK. / CHAPTER I. OISIN'S STORY; lines 14361-14452 | high | They see a delightful country in full blossom, smooth plains, a grand many-coloured king’s dun, sunny-houses, shining stone palaces, and three fifties of armed handsome men who come to meet them. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. THE CALL OF OISIN / CHAPTER III. THE LAST OF THE GREAT MEN / BOOK ELEVEN: OISIN AND PATRICK. / CHAPTER I. OISIN'S STORY; lines 14454-14544 | medium | Oisin asks leave of the king and Niamh to return to Ireland; Niamh fears he will not return, warns him not to get off the white horse or touch the ground, says he would become old and blind, and gives him a farewell kiss. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK ELEVEN: OISIN AND PATRICK. / CHAPTER I. OISIN'S STORY / CHAPTER II. OISIN IN PATRICK'S HOUSE / CHAPTER III. THE ARGUMENTS; lines 14793-14932 | medium | Oisin asks whether his dog or hound may enter the court of the King of Grace with him; Patrick says it will not; Oisin says he would have his hound fed too and ranks a Fianna champion above Patrick's Lord of Piety; Patrick says God is better than all the Fianna. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER III. THE ARGUMENTS / CHAPTER IV. OISIN'S LAMENTS / NOTES / I. THE APOLOGY; lines 15253-15337 | medium | The author says readers who care for Cuchulain, Finn, Lugh, and Etain may recognize belief in an invisible world and immortal life behind the visible and mortal, and may proceed to fuller versions and manuscripts; Kuno Meyer’s Old Irish students are mentioned. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | WITH A PREFACE BY W.B. YEATS / DEDICATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK / AUGUSTA GREGORY. / PREFACE; lines 329-417 | medium | The Men of Dea fight the misshapen Fomor, as Finn fights Cat-Heads and Dog-Heads; after defeat by men, the gods make houses in the hearts of hills. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IV. THE MORRIGU / CHAPTER V. AINE / CHAPTER VI. AOIBHELL / CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN; lines 3599-3699 | medium | At a fair at Teamhair, Etain alone sees and hears a rider who sings of his country: beautiful unblemished people, youth without aging, pleasant fields and flowers, streams of mead and wine, no care or sorrow, and inhabitants who see others while unseen. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VI. AOIBHELL / CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY; lines 3892-3967 | medium | Manannan is said to come to Finn and the Fianna in the form of the Gilla Decair, bring them to Land-under-Wave, hunt with them on Cnoc Aine, and sometimes help them. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN; lines 4094-4220 | high | Bran brings the branch into the royal house; a woman in strange clothing appears and sings of a branch of the apple-tree from Emhain, a far island with shining horses, plains, blossoms, birds, colours, delight, and music. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN; lines 4094-4220 | high | Bran brings the branch into the royal house; a woman in strange clothing appears and sings of a branch of the apple-tree from Emhain, a far island with shining horses, plains, blossoms, birds, colours, delight, and music. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VII. MIDHIR AND ETAIN / CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN; lines 4222-4255 | medium | Bran and his companions reach the Land of Women; the chief woman at the landing-place welcomes Bran, son of Febal, and invites him to land. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER VIII. MANANNAN / CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN / CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC; lines 4258-4356 | medium | The stranger says he comes from a country of truth without age, withering, sadness, jealousy, envy, or pride; he gives Cormac the branch in return for three gifts Cormac promises to give. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IX. MANANNAN AT PLAY / CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN / CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC / CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE; lines 4450-4532 | medium | At sea, white shouting waves as large as mountains rise around Ciabhan, salmon rise beside the curragh, and fear comes on him. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER X. HIS CALL TO BRAN / CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC / CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA; lines 4535-4606 | high | "I come," she said, "from Tir-nam-Beo, the Land of the Ever-Living Ones, where no death comes." | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC / CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS; lines 4609-4694 | high | The chapter opens by saying Tadg went to the Land of the Ever-Living Ones and came back again. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC / CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS; lines 4696-4784 | high | A foreigner guides because he had been on the track before; after six weeks without land he says they are astray on the great ocean with no boundaries, and a storm begins. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC / CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS; lines 4786-4887 | high | Cliodna of the Fair Hair identifies herself as of the Tuatha de Danaan, beloved of Ciabhan, source of the name Cliodna's wave, and a long-time island dweller who eats the tree's apples. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XI. HIS THREE CALLS TO CORMAC / CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS; lines 4786-4887 | high | At the ship, Cliodna tells Tadg's comrades that although they think only one day has passed, they have been there a full year without food or drink; cold and hunger would never come upon them there. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XII. CLIODNA'S WAVE / CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS / CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN; lines 4901-5032 | high | "Fiachna, son of Betach, went down into the lake then, for it was out of it he had come, and Laegaire went down into it after him, and fifty fighting men along with him." | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS / CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN / BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR; lines 5034-5139 | medium | Laegaire says each of fifty men has a wife, names his own wife as the Tear of the Sun, says he has a blue sword, values one night of the Sidhe above the other kingdom, returns there, and is made king with Fiachna and Fiachna’s daughter. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 6236-6295 | medium | A Babylonian legend says Istar descends to Hades to fetch the water of life to restore dead Thammuz; water appears to have been thrown over him during a mourning ceremony around his funeral pyre. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX. / FOOTNOTES; lines 15400-15519 | low | Virgil is cited for the Golden Bough; another note says Virgil placed it near Lake Avernus for Aeneas's descent to the infernal world, while Italian tradition placed it in the grove at Nemi. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX. / FOOTNOTES; lines 15521-15650 | high | Frazer says Virgil represents Aeneas taking the mistletoe to Hades, perhaps because the mistletoe was supposed to repel evil spirits. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2371-2451 | medium | The turtle is said not to die but to change houses; it is mourned as possible kin or ancestor, ritually killed with prayers and offerings, its flesh and bones deposited in a river to return to the lake of the dead, and its shell made into a dance-rattle. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2371-2451 | medium | Frazer asks why a turtle believed to contain a kinsman’s soul would be killed; he proposes communication with the other world, returning spirits welcomed and sent away, and the Zuni dead fetched back as turtles and sent to spirit-land by killing, while noting the meaning is obscure. | record |
| Persian | The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan | XVIII. / CHAPTER VI / CHAPTER VII / XVIII; lines 3653-3723 | medium | The poor man's son answers that before the rich father can move under the heavy load of stone, his own father will have risen to heaven. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | LITERAL TRANSLATION / TEXT OF LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI / INTRODUCTION / TEXT WITH INTERLINEAR TRANSLATION; lines 13014-13287 | medium | The narrative says that during the year before Mider came to Eochaid for chess he had been wooing Etain; he addresses her as a fair-haired lady and asks whether she will come with him into a marvelous land. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | FROM THE BOOK OF LEINSTER (TWELFTH-CENTURY MS.) / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN / INTRODUCTION / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN; lines 3241-3435 | medium | Laeg reports seeing yellow-haired Labraid by his cairn with spears and an apple of gold, then describes Labraid and Failbe dwelling together with thrice-fifty retainers, couches, copper frontings, golden posts, and a jewel used as a torch. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | PAGE 23 / PAGE 24 / PAGE 25 / PAGE 26; lines 6841-6925 | medium | “O fair-haired woman, will you come with me / into a marvellous land wherein is music (?)” | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | INTRODUCTION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS; lines 1623-1702 | medium | Zeus gives other heroes life and an abode apart from men at the ends of earth, in the islands of the blessed by deep swirling Ocean, where earth bears honey-sweet fruit three times a year; Cronos rules them after Zeus releases him. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3101-3196 | high | Cottus, Briareos, and Gyes hurl rocks, defeat the Titans, bury and bind them in Tartarus; Tartarus is described by depth, bronze enclosure, night, roots, gates fixed by Poseidon, and warders of Zeus. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701 / II. 1745 / THE SHIELD OF HERACLES; lines 4512-4605 | medium | The Fates struggle for the falling, drink dark blood, send a seized man's soul down to Hades and Tartarus, and fight over a poor wretch. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER; lines 5445-5542 | medium | Zeus sends Hermes with a golden wand to Erebus to persuade Hades and lead Persephone from misty gloom to light; Hermes finds Hades with reluctant Persephone, who yearns for Demeter. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES; lines 6642-6699 | medium | “he only should be the appointed messenger to Hades” | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE THEBAID / THE EPIGONI / THE CYPRIA / THE AETHIOPIS; lines 7926-7961 | medium | The Achaeans bury Antilochus and lay out Achilles; Thetis arrives with the Muses and her sisters, bewails her son, takes him from the pyre, and transports him to the White Island. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE AETHIOPIS / THE LITTLE ILIAD / THE SACK OF ILIUM / THE RETURNS; lines 8170-8221 | medium | The poetry of Homer and the Returns are said to contain an account of Hades and its terrors, but no spirit named Eurynomus. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL. / BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 12923-13064 | medium | Othryoneus comes from Cabesus seeking Cassandra, promising conquest as dower; the king consents but fate refuses; Idomeneus kills him with a Cretan javelin, mocks the contract, and drags away the corpse. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION. / THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. / POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER; lines 1303-1376 | medium | Later epic poets are described as following Homer in army catalogues, funeral games, visits to the shades, detention from return by Calypso/Dido/Armida-like figures, absence from the army, and celestial armor; other Greek-source borrowings are also mentioned. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT. / BOOK XIV. / JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS.; lines 14089-14214 | medium | Polydamas kills Prothonor with a spear through the shoulder and says the fallen man should guide his dark steps to Pluto's dreary hall. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 15781-15909 | medium | The goddess advises a glorious death for Sarpedon, then commands that Sleep and Death carry his body to his native land for tomb, pyramid, honors to his ashes, and lasting fame. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 16052-16199 | medium | Jove commands Phoebus to carry Sarpedon from the fight, bathe him in a crystal flood, anoint him, clothe him, and give him to Sleep and Death, who will bring him to friends for tomb and pyramid honors. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 16202-16341 | medium | Apollo descends from Mount Ida, carries Sarpedon from battle under a cloud to the Simois, bathes and dresses his body, renews him with ambrosial dews, and Sleep and Death carry him to Lycia for honors. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 16343-16451 | high | “Flits to the lone, uncomfortable coast; / A naked, wandering, melancholy ghost!” | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXII. / ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR.; lines 20224-20361 | medium | Priam names Polydore and Lycaon as missing sons and says that, if dead, they wander pale on the Stygian coast. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXII. / ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR.; lines 20645-20779 | medium | Hector says fates and angry gods will avenge him through Phoebus and Paris at the Scaean gate; then he dies and his spirit goes to the dark realm as a wandering ghost. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR. / BOOK XXIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 21072-21199 | high | Patroclus' shade appears like his living self, asks for burial and entrance below, describes unburied spirits barred from the flood, says the soul cannot return after crossing, foretells Achilles' death, and asks that their ashes share a golden urn. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR. / BOOK XXIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 21072-21199 | high | Patroclus' shade appears like his living self, asks for burial and entrance below, describes unburied spirits barred from the flood, says the soul cannot return after crossing, foretells Achilles' death, and asks that their ashes share a golden urn. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE DEATH OF HECTOR. / BOOK XXIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 21201-21342 | medium | Achilles calls to Patroclus' ghost, says twelve Trojan heroes are offered to his shade, and threatens Hector's corpse with dogs. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.; lines 22857-22974 | low | “Thou canst not call him from the Stygian shore, / But thou, alas! mayst live to suffer more!” | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.; lines 23122-23268 | medium | Hector's consort embraces his body, laments that he is gone to dismal realms, and foresees Troy's fall and the possible enslavement or killing of their son. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 25189-25329 | high | A Tryphiodorus excerpt says the infernal monarch runs from his throne, fearing that humans slain by Jove and led by Hermes' rod will fill his dark abode. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 25487-25616 | medium | The note says that calling the spirit was an ancient custom, even at Roman funerals, and cites lines hailing holy manes and paternal ashes. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 25487-25616 | medium | The note compares a passage on Gabriel’s descent with Virgil’s Hermes, describing winged flight, golden pinions, and a wand that draws ghosts from graves and drives them from Stygian waves. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 25618-25679 | high | The note says Achilles' ferocious treatment of Hector's corpse reflects a heroic-age duty of retributive vengeance and a belief that the soul's welfare after death depends on the body's fate. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SINGLE COMBAT OF HECTOR AND AJAX. / BOOK VIII. / ARGUMENT. / THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE DISTRESS OF THE GREEKS.; lines 8694-8829 | high | Pallas says Jove prevents Hector's fall, complains that he forgot her aid to his favorite son pressed by Eurystheus, recalls Pluto's gates, the triple dog, Styx, and hell, says Jove favors Thetis' son, and urges Juno to launch the chariot while she arms. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 10456-10602 | medium | The hostess of Pohyola says she will not give her daughter until Tuoni's bear is muzzled and Manala's wolf is conquered in the Death-land; many sent before have perished. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 14560-14736 | high | Wainamoinen asks whether anyone will go to Mana's kingdom and Tuoni's empire to get the magic auger from the master of Manala to repair or remake his snow-sledge. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 14907-15087 | medium | The mother calls him foolish, recalls his former sinking in a fatal current and seeing Tuoni's river and Mana's waters, and warns of stakes in Pohyola's courtyard for heroes' heads. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 18186-18359 | medium | Otso is told to go elsewhere: to hills, honey-pastures, bear-dens, sea-coast woodlands, Lapland, or, if needed, to the grove of Tuonela and honey-plains of Kalma, where many beasts are found. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 18547-18733 | medium | “I shall sink into the Death-land, / Shall return to Tuonela.” | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 19126-19285 | medium | The maiden leaps from the snow-sledge and rushes to the river, cataract, fiery stream, and whirlpool; she dies by fire and water and finds peace in Tuonela, in the sacred stream of Mana. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 19288-19476 | medium | Kullervo says he will not sink in marshes, but will fall bravely in battle and hasten to Tuoni, the realm of the departed. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 19478-19651 | medium | Kullervo lifts Ukko's sword, bids farewell to earth and heaven, sets the hilt in heather, points the weapon to his heart, throws himself upon it, pours out his life-blood, and journeys to Manala. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 19845-20037 | low | Ilmarinen, dejected, says Louhi’s daughter sleeps in death in Tuonela and Manala, and asks for Louhi’s youngest maiden to occupy her sister’s chambers. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | BOOK II / EPILOGUE / THE END / GLOSSARY; lines 25478-25534 | medium | Tuonela is the abode of Tuoni; Tuonen Poinka is the son of Tuoni; Tuonetar is hostess of Death-land and daughter of Tuoni; Tuoni is the god of death. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 2932-3105 | high | Aino leaves the mountain store-house, wanders through barren and forested landscapes, and sings that she will hasten from the cruel world to Tuoni, the realm of the departed, and sink beneath the sea-foam. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 3687-3882 | medium | The aged mother forbids the killing, identifies Wainamoinen as her nephew, and warns that joy and wondrous singing would vanish; she contrasts earth's music with Tuoni and the realm of the departed. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 597-678 | high | Spirits of the dead are said to remain in graves until bodily disintegration, presided over by Kalma and his black and evil daughter. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 597-678 | high | The first daughter of Tuoni, a tiny black maiden, warns Wainamoinen that many visit Manala but few return, then ferries him over the river like Charon. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 6717-6911 | medium | Nasshut grows angry, swears vengeance, limps away to the river of the death-land, Tuoni, and Manala, and waits for Lemminkainen, expecting him to pass on the way home. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 6913-7085 | medium | Lemminkainen pursues the animal over swamps, woods, snow-fields, mountains, lakes, rivers, Hisi plains, Kalma plains, and Tuoni’s kingdom; fire and smoke arise from his equipment; at the jaws of Death, Tuoni and Kalma cannot overtake him. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 7467-7653 | medium | After Lemminkainen reports bridling the fire-horse and asks again for the maiden, Louhi says he must kill the swan in Tuoni's black death-river with one crossbow and one arrow. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 7655-7840 | high | Nasshut throws the dying Lemminkainen into Tuonela's black river; Lemminkainen floats helplessly through current, cataract, and rapids toward Tuonela. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 7842-8032 | high | The mother entreats the Sun, which answers that Lemminkainen died in Tuoni's fatal river, in Manala's waters and sacred stream, and sank to Tuonela and Manala's lower regions. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8034-8210 | medium | The mother refuses to cast the dead into the waters, rakes the Tuonela river and Manala pools and caverns, finds body fragments, and reassembles Lemminkainen's flesh, bones, vessels, and veins. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8212-8383 | medium | The mother anoints Lemminkainen's body, wounds, and life-blood centers and commands him to wake. He wakes, rises, speaks in magic accents, and says his sleep in Tuonela was sweet and without joy or sorrow; his mother says he would have slept longer without her. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8570-8763 | high | Wainamoinen decides he can find words in the dwellings of Tuoni and in the fields and castles of Manala. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8570-8763 | high | Wainamoinen calls to Tuonela and Manala for Tuoni's daughter to bring a ferry-boat to bear him over the black fatal river or channel. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8765-8952 | high | Mana's daughter brings a boat to Wainamoinen, rows him over the black fatal river to Manala, and says he comes neither dead nor dying. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 9328-9494 | high | Threat of banishment to Tuoni's coal-black river, Mana's stream, and Manala; return over Death-river is blocked by nine animals and iron and copper netting unless release or ransom is granted. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 10353-10500 | medium | The note describes Jerusalem and a journey through the seven heavens to God's throne on Borak with Gabriel in some traditions, while other early traditions regard it as vision or dream. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 1143-1311 | medium | God is to deal with a created man given riches and sons who opposes the signs, plots, turns away, calls the message magic and mortal speech, and is to be cast into Hell-fire. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 11814-11950 | medium | On resurrection day God questions associators about their gods; angels cause sinners to die, and sinners are told to enter the gates of Hell forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 13842-13974 | medium | Past peoples, beginning with Noah's people and later confederates, charged apostles with imposture, schemed against them, and were punished; infidels are assigned to fire. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 13976-14113 | medium | A believer addresses his people, offers guidance, contrasts passing present life with abiding afterlife, states recompense, promises paradise to righteous believers, rejects denial of God and associated gods, and warns that transgressors are inmates of fire. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14660-14794 | medium | God takes souls at death and during sleep, retaining those decreed for death and returning others until a fixed time as signs for reflection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14796-14940 | high | Unbelievers are driven in troops toward Hell; when its gates open, its keepers ask whether apostles recited signs and warned them of the meeting of that day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15076-15223 | high | "Hell shall be round about the infidels" and punishment shall wrap them from above and beneath their feet; God will say, "Taste ye your own doings." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 15351-15479 | medium | An Arabic Koran is revealed so the prophet may warn the mother city and its surroundings of the Day of Gathering, when part will be in Paradise and part in the flame. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16572-16682 | high | Those who charge signs with falsehood and turn away in pride are inmates of the fire forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 16684-16805 | high | A partition and the wall called Al Araf stand between Paradise and Fire; men on it know people by tokens, greet Paradise, fear the Fire, and address those whose amassing and pride did not avail them. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17322-17443 | high | Al Araf is described as a wall for those whose good and evil works are equal; the idea is called analogous to Purgatory and possibly derived from Talmudic discussions of the distance between Paradise and Hell, with Plato also cited. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17850-17975 | medium | God takes souls at night, knows what people merit by day, awakens them until the set life-term is fulfilled, and then they return to Him to be told their works. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 20275-20431 | medium | Unbelievers among the People of the Book and Polytheists go into Gehenna; believers who do right are rewarded with gardens of Eden beneath which rivers flow, where they abide forever, with mutual divine pleasure. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 20985-21124 | medium | Better things are prepared for those who fear God: gardens with rivers flowing beneath pavilions, lasting abode, pure wives, and acceptance with God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 22112-22232 | medium | Believing men and women have light running before them and on their right hand; angels announce gardens with rivers where they will abide forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 22234-22361 | medium | The audience is told to hasten after pardon and Paradise, described as vast as Heaven and Earth and prepared for believers. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 23197-23320 | medium | Those who believe and do right are caused by God to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow and remain there forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 24209-24323 | high | Those who make friends with people angering God, swear falsely, and use faith as a cloak face severe torment; their wealth and children will not avail them; they are Satan's party and lost. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 25240-25356 | medium | Those who believed, fled homes, and strove with substance and person on God's path are highest in grade and receive mercy, divine pleasure, gardens, and great reward. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 26203-26315 | medium | If the People of the Book believe, fear God, and observe the Law, the Evangel, and what was sent down, their sins will be removed, they will enter gardens of delight, and they will receive good things from above and beneath. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 2741-2973 | medium | One whose Book is given in the right hand receives easy reckoning and rejoices; one whose Book is given behind the back invokes destruction and burns in fire. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3210-3455 | high | On the overshadowing day, some faces are downcast, travailing, burned at scorching fire, made to drink from a boiling fountain, and given only Darih for food. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3210-3455 | medium | "Oh, thou soul which art at rest, / Return to thy Lord... / And enter thou my Paradise." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3210-3455 | medium | When the soul comes into the throat, a charm is sought and departure is recognized; the person is driven to the Lord after failing to believe or pray and turning back from truth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3457-3676 | high | The wicked have a distinctly written register in Sidjin; the note explains Sidjin as a prison in Hell whose name is transferred to the register of actions kept there. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3678-3891 | medium | "They ask, 'When this day of judgment?' / On that day they shall be tormented at the fire." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3893-4118 | medium | The addressed are told to burn in punishment; patience or impatience will be the same, for they will receive the reward of their doings. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 4514-4760 | high | Heaven is cleft and becomes rose red like stained leather; sinners are known by tokens, seized by forelocks and feet, and pass between Hell and boiling water. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 4957-5183 | medium | “For, one blast only,” they recognize “the day of reckoning”; the unjust, their consorts, and gods adored beside God are gathered and guided “to the road for Hell.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5403-5596 | medium | The just drink a cup tempered at the camphor fountain and from a fountain whose channels the servants of God guide from place to place. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5598-5788 | high | The pious are in a secure place among gardens and fountains, clothed in silk and rich robes, facing one another, wed to virgins with large dark eyes, and calling for every kind of fruit. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5984-6131 | high | One who comes before the Lord laden with crime receives Hell; believers with righteous works receive lofty grades and Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing beneath the trees. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 6133-6277 | medium | The mountains are scattered into dust and left a level plain; people follow a summoner, voices are low before the God of Mercy, and intercession only avails by divine permission. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 6440-6654 | high | Abraham prays for wisdom, justice, a good name among posterity, inheritance of the garden, forgiveness for his father, and no shame when mankind is raised. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7050-7238 | high | Eblis asks for respite until humans are raised from the dead, vows to beguile humans on earth except sincere servants, and is told he will have no power over God’s servants except those who follow him; Hell has seven portals with separate bands. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7396-7552 | medium | Those who turn, believe, and do right enter the promised Garden of Eden; they hear peace, receive food morning and evening, and Paradise becomes the heritage of God-fearing servants. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8028-8198 | high | The inmates of Paradise are joyful, reclining with spouses in shade on bridal couches, receiving fruits and whatever they require, and hearing peace from a merciful Lord. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8518-8693 | high | Different parties dispute; transgressors are warned of punishment on an afflictive day; the Hour comes suddenly; friends become foes except the God-fearing. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD; lines 12614-12712 | medium | Those who believe and do right will enter gardens watered by rivers, remain forever, enjoy wives free from impurity, and be led into perpetual shade. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD; lines 13129-13192 | medium | "whoso separateth himself from the apostle... we... will cast him to be burned in hell"; the journey there is called unhappy. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15886-15961 | high | Those who believe and do right are companions of paradise and remain there forever; no soul is loaded beyond its ability. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15964-16056 | high | A veil stands between the blessed and the damned; men on Al Arf know people by marks, greet the inhabitants of paradise, desire entry, and pray not to be placed with the ungodly when looking toward hell. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1726-1776 | high | Others believed in resurrection and tied a camel by a sepulchre, leaving it to perish and accompany the dead to the other world so the deceased would not go on foot at the resurrection. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 17547-17622 | low | The passage is generally understood by commentators of angels at Bedr slaying infidels with iron maces emitting flames; some also connect it with examination in the sepulchre after death. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX. / CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 18846-18933 | high | All return to God; God produces a creature and causes it to return; believers are rewarded and unbelievers drink boiling water and suffer punishment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21590-21683 | high | "it hath seven gates; unto every gate a distinct company of them shall be assigned." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21590-21683 | high | Those who fear God dwell in gardens amid fountains; angels tell them to enter in peace and security; grudges are removed; they sit as brethren on couches and are not cast out. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 21863-21948 | medium | On the day of resurrection God covers unbelievers with shame; angels cause the unjust to die, reject their denial of evil, and the unjust are told to enter the gates of hell forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24146-24213 | medium | All are said to approach near hell by established decree; afterward the pious are delivered and the ungodly remain there on their knees. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25815-25887 | medium | Those who worship besides God lack proof and knowledge; unbelievers disdain rehearsed signs and are warned that the fire of hell is worse, with an unhappy journey to it. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 26071-26174 | medium | When death overtakes an unbeliever, he asks to return to life and do right; the request is refused, a bar remains until resurrection, and the trumpet is sounded. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 26176-26233 | medium | Sale's note explains barzakh as a partition or interstice and says it can refer to the place, time, or state of the dead, the interval between this world and the next or between death and resurrection, the grave, or an obstacle preventing return after death; it also compares the term to Greek Hades. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXV. / ENTITLED, AL FORKAN; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 26803-26899 | medium | God may provide gardens with rivers and palaces; rejecters of the hour face burning fire that sees and roars, and the pious are promised an eternal garden. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVI. / ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30754-30821 | medium | The man says he should worship the creator, to whom all return; other gods cannot deliver him; he declares belief in the Lord. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 30978-31092 | medium | Those who acted unjustly, their comrades, and their idols are gathered, directed to the way to hell, and set before God's tribunal to be called to account. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31094-31213 | high | The passage contrasts felicity with the tree of al Zakkum, described as issuing from the bottom of hell; the damned eat its fruit, compared to heads of devils, and drink filthy boiling water before returning into hell. Notes explain al Zakkum and mention that the comparison may also refer to serpents. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVIII. / ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31587-31688 | high | The pious are promised an excellent return: gardens of perpetual abode with open gates, fruits, drink, companions, and unfailing provision. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31729-31833 | medium | Those who eschew idol worship and turn to God receive good tidings; those who hear God's word and follow the most excellent part are directed by God and are men of understanding; Mohammed is addressed regarding one destined for hell fire. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31955-32047 | high | Unbelievers are driven in troops to hell; its gates open and its keepers ask whether apostles warned them of the day. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32049-32073 | medium | A note refers to chapter 7 and chapter 11 and says the damned seem to attribute their ruin to God's decree of predestination. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXXIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32200-32262 | high | The believer calls his people to follow him, says present life is temporary, and says good true believers enter paradise with abundant provision while evil is proportionately rewarded. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XL. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 32401-32508 | high | The enemies of God are gathered together to hell fire and march in distinct bands until they arrive there. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLIV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 33210-33306 | high | The pious are lodged securely among gardens and fountains, clothed in silk and satin, seated facing one another, espoused to fair large-eyed damsels, given fruits, spared death after the first death, and delivered from hell's pains. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 33621-33701 | high | God will introduce believers who do good works into gardens beneath which rivers flow; unbelievers indulge pleasures, eat as beasts eat, and have hell fire as their abode. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER L. / ENTITLED, K; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34187-34273 | medium | God commands unbelievers and offenders to be cast into grievous torment; a companion denies seducing the condemned; God says not to wrangle, that the sentence is unchanged, and that servants are not treated unjustly. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER L. / ENTITLED, K; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34275-34337 | medium | “enter the same in peace: this is the day of eternity.” The passage also says they feared the Merciful in secret, came with a converted heart, and shall have what they desire with additional bliss. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LII. / ENTITLED, THE MOUNTAIN; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34492-34610 | medium | On the day of punishment, heaven shakes, mountains pass away, accusers of God's apostles are driven into hell fire, and are told that their recompense matches what they wrought. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE MOON; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 34954-35047 | medium | Hell is identified as what the wicked denied; they pass between it and hot boiling water. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE MOON; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35049-35102 | medium | "Shall the reward of good works be any other good?" | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LVI. / ENTITLED, THE INEVITABLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35105-35216 | medium | People are separated into three classes: companions of the right hand, companions of the left hand, and those who have preceded others in faith; the right-hand group is happy and the left-hand group miserable. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LVI. / ENTITLED, THE INEVITABLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35218-35320 | medium | The companions of the left hand dwell amid burning winds, scalding water, and black smoke, after enjoying worldly pleasures and persisting in wickedness. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE INEVITABLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 35323-35422 | high | On a certain day, true believers of both sexes have light running before them and on their right hands and receive good tidings of gardens through which rivers flow, where they remain forever. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXIX. / ENTITLED, THE INFALLIBLE; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 36754-36875 | medium | The person receiving his book in the right hand invites others to read it, says he expected his account, and is given pleasant life in a lofty garden with near fruits and food and drink. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXIV / ENTITLED, THE COVERED; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37283-37399 | medium | Every soul is pledged for what it has wrought except the companions of the right hand, who dwell in gardens and ask one another and the wicked what brought the wicked into hell. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXV. / ENTITLED, THE RESURRECTION; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37424-37503 | medium | At a man's last agony, his soul comes up to his throat, and bystanders ask who can bring a charm to recover him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, THE RESURRECTION; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37506-37595 | medium | “We have prepared for the unbelievers chains, and collars, and burning fire.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXVIII. / ENTITLED, THE NEWS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 37716-37782 | medium | Hell is an ambush and receptacle for transgressors, who remain for ages without refreshment except boiling water and corruption; their punishment is recompense, and everything is computed and written. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXIII. / ENTITLED, THOSE WHO GIVE SHORT MEASURE OR WEIGHT; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38045-38130 | medium | The register of the wicked is in Sejjin, and Sejjin is described as “a book distinctly written.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER LXXXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER LXXXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 38349-38409 | medium | Some faces on the day are cast down, labouring and toiling; they are cast into scorching fire, drink from a boiling fountain, and have only dry thorns and thistles that do not satisfy hunger. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, NECESSARIES; WHERE IT WAS REVEALED IS DISPUTED. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER CVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 39275-39321 | medium | The note says al Cawthar means abundance, especially of good, and may refer to wisdom, prophecy, the Koran, intercession, children, followers, or generally to a river in paradise whose water flows into Mohammed's pond for the blessed to drink before admission into paradise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 3957-4008 | high | When a corpse is laid in the grave, an angel receives him and announces two terrible black livid angels named Monker and Nakir. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39757-39845 | low | Fountains of paradise are indexed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 39848-39924 | medium | Index entries describe the heavens as guarded by angels, manifesting God's wisdom with the earth, and falling at the last day; hell is indexed with torments, unbelievers, believers, God's tribunal, and being filled; named hell apartments include Al Hwiyat and Al Hotama. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4011-4062 | high | The soul is separated from the body by the angel of death, gently for the good and violently for the wicked; it enters Al Berzakh, the interval between death and resurrection; a believer's soul is met by two angels and conveyed to heaven for assignment according to merit and degree. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 40377-40474 | medium | Tasnim is listed as a fountain in paradise, and Zenjebil is listed as a stream in paradise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4065-4117 | high | The dead are said to hear salutations at their graves as well as the living, though they cannot answer, and this is linked to visiting tombs of relations. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4065-4117 | medium | One opinion places souls with Adam in the lowest heaven; Muhammad is said to have seen souls destined to paradise on Adam's right and those condemned to hell on his left during the night journey. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4322-4370 | medium | A tradition says mankind will be assembled at the last day in three classes: walkers, riders, and those who creep groveling with faces on the ground; the first are believers with few good works, and the second are more honoured with God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4531-4583 | medium | Persian Magi are said to believe Mihr and Sorsh stand on a bridge; Mihr weighs actions and Sorsh casts those with light good works into hell, while the weightier pass to paradise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4586-4634 | high | After trials and dissolution of the assembly, those admitted to paradise take the right-hand way and those destined to hell fire take the left. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4586-4634 | high | Hell is described as seven stories or apartments, one below another, for seven distinct classes of the damned; the first is named Jehennam. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4637-4690 | medium | The passage lists named apartments of hell assigned to groups, ending with a seventh, lowest, worst level for hypocrites. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4693-4744 | high | The passage states that Mohammed was probably indebted to Jews and partly to Magians for circumstances concerning hell and the damned, and that both traditions make seven distinct apartments in hell. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4693-4744 | medium | The passage introduces a wall or partition imagined between paradise and hell, before the excerpt breaks off. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4747-4794 | high | Al Arf is explained as a term connected with distinguishing or parting things; commentators describe it as a high or raised wall of separation whose occupants recognize the blessed and the damned by their marks. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4747-4794 | medium | The righteous, after surmounting difficulties and passing a sharp bridge, drink at the prophet's square pond, supplied by two pipes from al Cawthar; its water is whiter than milk or silver, more fragrant than musk, surrounded by cups as numerous as stars, and whoever drinks never thirsts again. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4747-4794 | high | The righteous, after surmounting difficulties and passing a sharp bridge, drink at the prophet's square pond, supplied by two pipes from al Cawthar; its water is whiter than milk or silver, more fragrant than musk, surrounded by cups as numerous as stars, and whoever drinks never thirsts again. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4797-4845 | medium | Paradise is said to be above the seven heavens or in the seventh heaven, next under God's throne, with earth, stones, buildings, and tree trunks made of fragrant or precious materials. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4848-4897 | high | The righteous drink from Mohammed's pond before admission; two fountains under a tree near the gate are used for bodily purging and washing. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4848-4897 | medium | The righteous drink from Mohammed's pond before admission; two fountains under a tree near the gate are used for bodily purging and washing. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4900-4946 | medium | After the feast, each person is dismissed to a designed mansion, with felicity proportioned to merits and exceeding comprehension. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4949-5000 | high | What a person sows will spring up and mature in a moment. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4949-5000 | medium | Mohammed is reported as saying that the meanest inhabitant has vast possessions, while the one in highest honour beholds God's face morning and evening; Al Ghazali interprets this as an additional recompense. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4949-5000 | medium | The passage reports Jewish descriptions of two or three gates and four rivers flowing with milk, wine, balsam, and honey, with reference to Eden's rivers. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4949-5000 | medium | The passage says Jewish Behemoth and Leviathan, slain for the entertainment of the blessed, are apparently the Balm and Nun of Mohammed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 5003-5059 | medium | Highest felicity is said to belong to those who perpetually contemplate the face of God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 5062-5114 | medium | They make Christians swear that, if they falsify their engagement, they will affirm “there will be black-eyed girls in the next world, and corporeal pleasures.” | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION VI. / OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE KORAN IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. / SECTION VII. / SECTION VIII.; lines 8043-8098 | medium | Moktel is reported to teach that disobedience does not hurt a person who professes God's unity and has faith; no true believer is cast into hell; God forgives all crimes besides infidelity; and a disobedient believer is punished on the resurrection-day bridge over hell by flames before entering paradise. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 8766-8859 | medium | Believers who do good works are promised gardens watered by rivers, fruit for sustenance, wives subject to no impurity, and eternal continuance there. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 9774-9860 | medium | A note says martyr souls are in the crops of green birds that fly wherever they please in paradise and feed on its fruits. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK IV / DYUTA / BOOK V / PATIVRATA-MAHATMYA; lines 2570-2710 | high | A dark crowned figure with blood-red eye and noose appears; he identifies himself as Yama, monarch of the dead, who leads mortals to dark realms. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK IV / DYUTA / BOOK V / PATIVRATA-MAHATMYA; lines 2570-2710 | medium | Yama draws the thumb-sized vital spark, purusha, from Satyavan's body, fastens it in his noose, and goes southward with the youth's immortal life while Savitri follows. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK VIII / BHISHMA-BADHA / BOOK IX / DRONA-BADHA; lines 4972-5112 | medium | Arjun says he should lose the bright sky of the righteous fathers and live with sinners in deepest hell if Jayadratha does not die before tomorrow's sunset; otherwise Arjun will give up his weapons and die on a flaming pyre. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK X / KARNA-BADHA / BOOK XI / SRADDHA; lines 6115-6263 | medium | Gandhari says Duryodhan set his heart on battle, wiped out sins by valor, fought and fell like a prince, and won the warrior's sky. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | SRADDHA / BOOK XII / ASWA-MEDHA / CONCLUSION; lines 6719-6801 | medium | Dhrita-rashtra retires to the forest with Gandhari and Pritha; in solitude he sees the spirits of slain warriors, which Vyasa had called up and dismisses in the morning. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | SRADDHA / BOOK XII / ASWA-MEDHA / CONCLUSION; lines 6719-6801 | high | The concluding books are named the Great Journey and the Ascent to Heaven; after Krishna's death, the Pandavs place Prakshit on the throne, retire to the Himalayas, and die one by one except Yudhishthir, who proceeds to heaven in a celestial car. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | SRADDHA / BOOK XII / ASWA-MEDHA / CONCLUSION; lines 6719-6801 | high | Yudhishthir undergoes trial, bathes in the celestial Ganges, rises with a celestial body, meets Krishna in heavenly splendour, and meets his brothers as immortals in heavenly forms. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | SRADDHA / BOOK XII / ASWA-MEDHA / CONCLUSION; lines 6719-6801 | high | Indra states that mighty warriors slain in earthly battle now walk the bright ethereal plain, have cast off mortal bodies, crossed heaven's radiant gate, and won celestial mansions; he exhorts mortals toward kindly action, gentle speech, and endurance. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 10190-10284 | medium | Sleep frees the soul from prison and pain; the soul wanders in spacious heavenly fields and wishes to dwell there without care. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 11123-11231 | medium | No one can overtake the camel’s foal, which flees into the hills; this is compared to the soul escaping prison bars and flying to the Lord of Grace. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 12581-12672 | high | The listener is urged to put aside a little from daily food and drink, sleep little, seek pardon in the mornings, and show signs of life like babes in the womb. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. / XIII.; lines 13283-13385 | medium | Zeyd says he surveys the heavens, sees eight paradises and seven deep hells, and can discern who is heavenward bound and who takes the other road. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. / XIII.; lines 13387-13477 | high | Zeyd says he will tear off the veil, reveal the judgment hall, separate gold from spurious coin, expose those of the left hand, reveal the seven pits of divine wrath, rend the wicked’s rags, and sound the trump. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII. / XIII.; lines 13681-13788 | high | At night hidden stars appear; God restores the dead, who stand before Him, dance, praise, shed mortal remains, ride on angel-wings, and move from nullity to entity on judgment day. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | XIII. / XVII. / THE END. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 14913-15087 | high | “Gardens beneath which rivers flow” is described as a recurring Qur'anic expression. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | XIII. / XVII. / THE END. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 15089-15259 | medium | The four rivers of Paradise are water, milk, wine, and honey. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | XIII. / XVII. / THE END. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 15425-15637 | high | The notes describe eight paradises or mansions of Paradise and list their names, including the Garden of Eden, Firdaws, and ‘Illiyun. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 3644-3765 | medium | As death nears, Jelāl tells his disciples not to fear; as Mansūr’s spirit appeared long after death to guide ‘Attār, they should remain with and remember Jelāl so he may show himself in whatever form and shed heavenly inspiration in their breasts. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | CHAPTER V. / CHAPTER VI. / CHAPTER VII. / CHAPTER VIII.; lines 4954-5082 | high | During his last journey, ‘Ārif dreams of a vaulted chamber overlooking a paradise-like garden with flowering shrubs, fruit trees, heavenly youths and maidens, and voices; Jelālu-’d-Dīn beckons him and says his term is ended and he must come. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | CHAPTER V. / CHAPTER VI. / CHAPTER VII. / CHAPTER VIII.; lines 4954-5082 | medium | During his last journey, ‘Ārif dreams of a vaulted chamber overlooking a paradise-like garden with flowering shrubs, fruit trees, heavenly youths and maidens, and voices; Jelālu-’d-Dīn beckons him and says his term is ended and he must come. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | CHAPTER V. / CHAPTER VI. / CHAPTER VII. / CHAPTER VIII.; lines 5084-5172 | high | ‘Ārif says there is no remedy but death; he has journeyed outwardly and inwardly; he wishes to go to the future state and be with his father and grandfather. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | SELECTED ANECDOTES / FROM THE WORK ENTITLED / THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I.; lines 593-714 | medium | “I and all my disciples will be under the protection of the Great Master, my father, on the day of resurrection.” | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | FROM THE WORK ENTITLED / THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II.; lines 813-935 | medium | On a Friday morning the Seyyid weeps and says his master has passed from the tabernacle of dust to the abode of sincerity; the time is later found to match Bahā Veled’s death. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | FROM THE WORK ENTITLED / THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II.; lines 937-987 | medium | When the time for the Seyyid to die comes, he orders warm water prepared, tells the servant to announce that the stranger Seyyid has departed to the other world, and bolts the door. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SEVENTH.; lines 10816-10900 | high | Lethe was a river of the infernal regions whose waters were said to produce sleep and forgetfulness. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SEVENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11208-11323 | medium | Pluto and Proserpine are identified as rulers of the shades, prayed to not to take the old man's life too soon. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11816-11893 | high | The explanation says a serpent haunted the cavern of Tænarus in Laconia and ravaged the districts near the promontory. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11973-12064 | medium | Those who should weep are absent; souls of sons, husbands, old, and young wander unlamented; there is not enough room for tombs or trees for fires. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6752-6853 | high | A yew-shaded path leads to the infernal abodes; Styx exhales vapors, new ghosts descend, the underworld city has many passages and gates, and shades move toward judgment, Pluto’s abode, former callings, or punishment. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6855-6931 | high | Juno leaves her celestial habitation, enters the accursed underworld; Cerberus barks with three mouths; the Sisters begotten of Night sit before prison doors and rise when they recognize her. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6933-7031 | high | The note says Homer and Virgil teach that spirits whose bodies lacked burial rites were not allowed to pass the Styx and wandered on its banks for a hundred years. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTH.; lines 7741-7823 | medium | Lycabas grieves Athis, challenges Perseus, is stabbed by Perseus, looks for Athis as he dies, sinks upon him, and carries to the shades the consolation of a united death. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8229-8324 | medium | The earth trembles; Pluto, King of the shades, fears a chasm may open and daylight may frighten trembling ghosts. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK THE FIFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8327-8418 | medium | Pluto hurls his royal sceptre into the stream; the earth opens a way down to Tartarus and receives the descending chariot. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK THE FIFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8420-8517 | medium | Henna/Enna is described as the navel of Sicily and a major cult-place of Ceres; Proserpine is said by many authors to have been carried away by Pluto nearby, with other locations also reported; Cicero describes the sacred landscape, cavern, chariot abduction, descent into earth, lake, and yearly festival. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8531-8624 | medium | Pezeron says Pluto received the west, worked Spanish gold and silver mines, and that the low, dark, subterranean setting generated the fable of Hell; Tartarus and Lethe are identified with Spanish rivers. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8626-8716 | high | The explanatory heading summarizes Ceres’s search, Arethusa’s information, Jupiter’s condition for return, Proserpine’s pomegranate seeds, Ascalaphus’s owl transformation, the Sirens’ wings, and the six-month division between earth and the Infernal Regions. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8626-8716 | medium | Arethusa rises from the waters, asks Ceres to cease her anger toward Sicily, identifies her origin and habitation, and explains that she passes beneath the earth through caverns. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8718-8819 | high | Ceres is resolved to fetch away her daughter, but the Fates do not allow it because the damsel has broken her fast. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FOURTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10542-10617 | high | Æneas reaches Cumæ, the swampy regions and cavern of the long-lived Sibyl, and asks to visit his father’s shade through Avernus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE FOURTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10710-10786 | high | While the Sibyl speaks during the steep ascent, Æneas emerges from the Stygian abodes to the Eubœan city; after sacrifice he approaches the shore not yet named after his nurse. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3008-3100 | high | Hercules’ greatest toil is described as conquest over death, represented by descent into the underworld and dragging Cerberus to light; older accounts include conflict with Hades and with Death. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH.; lines 3955-4038 | high | After mourning Eurydice, Orpheus dares to descend to Styx through the Taenarian gate and goes among the shades to Persephone and the ruler of the infernal realm. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH.; lines 4040-4101 | high | Orpheus is amazed at the twofold death of his wife. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4104-4203 | medium | Eurydice, wife of Orpheus, dies very young, and Orpheus is inconsolable for her loss. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5635-5712 | medium | Adonis descends to the Infernal Regions; Proserpine loves him and refuses his return; Jupiter refers the dispute to Calliope, who assigns Adonis half his time with Venus on earth and half below. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE ELEVENTH.; lines 5715-5795 | medium | Orpheus' ghost descends under the earth, recognizes places he had seen before, finds Eurydice in the fields of the blessed, embraces her, walks with her, and safely looks back at her. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE ELEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6004-6101 | medium | The Meropes live in the new world; their country contains Anostus, meaning not to be repassed, a no-return place described as a dreadful abyss with reddish light and two rivers, Sorrow and Mirth, with large trees nearby. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6689-6760 | low | The sea rises toward the heavens, foams, shifts color, and tosses the ship so it seems first high as if on a mountain summit and then sunk among Acheron and infernal waters. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7011-7106 | high | Cenotaphs were erected for drowned persons whose bodies could not be found; a stated reason was the belief that souls without funeral honours wandered in agony on the banks of the Styx for one hundred years. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7011-7106 | medium | The note says those dying on shore could receive funeral rites, while the shipwrecked might be fish food; it also reports the belief that the soul came from aether or fire and that extinction by water was contrary to nature. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7108-7175 | high | After the dead tasted the waters of Lethe, a river of Hell, they were supposed to forget events of former life. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 8455-8538 | medium | Ajax claims noble birth as son of Telamon; Telamon took Troy with Hercules and sailed to Colchis; Aeacus, Telamon's father, gives laws to the silent shades where Sisyphus is pressed by a heavy stone. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | XV. SHARANI, THE EGYPTIAN 164 / XVI. MULLAH SHAH 174 / APPENDIX I. MOHAMMEDAN CONVERSIONS 192 / PREFACE; lines 119-197 | medium | The passage reports sayings of early companions: the Koran says hell will be seen with certainty; Ali laments short provision and terrors of the way; Abu'l Darda says knowledge of what follows death would stop eating and drinking and wishes he were a lopped and devoured tree. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER II / CHAPTER III / RABIA, THE WOMAN SUFI / CHAPTER IV; lines 1219-1298 | high | Ibrahim explains that he abandoned rank and kingdom after seeing in a mirror an obscure tomb, a long road to the other world with no provisions, and an upright judge questioning him rigorously. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER II / CHAPTER III / RABIA, THE WOMAN SUFI / CHAPTER IV; lines 1300-1396 | high | A sinful man asks Ibrahim for counsel; Ibrahim gives six rules involving God's food, kingdom, sight, Azrael, Munkir and Nakir, and Judgment Day, leading the man to repent. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX / CHAPTER X; lines 2767-2865 | high | The soul’s union with the body leaves impediments after death; every soul is eternal and imperishable and may suffer temporary exclusion from beatitude. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX / CHAPTER X; lines 2867-2943 | high | Bad companions hindering intellectual progress are unregulated imagination, irascibility, and carnal concupiscence; death delivers man to the celestial country of true repose. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | I.--THE IMPORT OF ISLAMIC MYSTICISM / II.--EARLIER PHASES / III.--THE LOVE OF GOD AND ECSTASY / CHAPTER II; lines 848-918 | medium | At death Hasan smiles and says “What sin?” after hearing a voice tell Azrael to hold back his soul because one sin remains. | record |
| Sufi | The Mystics of Islam | CHAPTER IV / DIVINE LOVE / CHAPTER V / SAINTS AND MIRACLES; lines 3273-3377 | medium | Khurqānī says not to send the Angel of Death to him, because he received his soul from God and will give it only to God. | record |
| Sufi | The Mystics of Islam | CHAPTER IV / DIVINE LOVE / CHAPTER V / SAINTS AND MIRACLES; lines 3273-3377 | high | Khurqānī says he will stand at the Resurrection and lead people into Paradise; he also says Paradise seeks him, Hell fears him, and both would be annihilated in him with their inhabitants. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10201-10297 | high | Odysseus stays with Circe for a year; at his companions' urging he leaves. Circe, unable to detain him after vowing not to use spells, warns him of dangers, commands him to consult Tiresias in Hades, provisions the ship, and bids farewell. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.; lines 1081-1171 | medium | Europa is mother of Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus; Minos becomes king of Crete and later a judge of the lower world with his brothers. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY. / PRONOUNCING INDEX. / A COMPLETE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH. / NOTES; lines 11775-11823 | medium | Shades of mortals neither virtuous nor vicious are condemned to a monotonous, joyless existence in the Asphodel meadows of Hades. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | MARS. / NIKE (VICTORIA). / VICTORIA. / HERMES (MERCURY).; lines 3746-3817 | medium | Hermes is described as messenger and ambassador of the gods, conductor of shades to Hades, patron of youth and athletics, inventor of the alphabet, teacher of interpreting foreign languages, and cunning attendant of Zeus when Zeus travels on earth disguised as a mortal. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | MARS. / NIKE (VICTORIA). / VICTORIA. / HERMES (MERCURY).; lines 3819-3892 | high | Zeus gives Hermes a winged silver cap and winged feet and appoints him herald of the gods and conductor of shades to Hades. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | MERCURY. / DIONYSUS (BACCHUS). / BACCHUS OR LIBER. / AIDES (PLUTO).; lines 4150-4244 | high | Homer's Odyssey is described as placing Erebus' entrance beyond Oceanus in the far west, among the Cimmerians in eternal mist and darkness. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | MERCURY. / DIONYSUS (BACCHUS). / BACCHUS OR LIBER. / AIDES (PLUTO).; lines 4150-4244 | high | Across the Styx is Minos's tribunal, where shades confess earthly actions and receive sentence; Cerberus, a three-headed dog with snake-bristling necks, guards it and prevents return. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | MERCURY. / DIONYSUS (BACCHUS). / BACCHUS OR LIBER. / AIDES (PLUTO).; lines 4246-4341 | high | Happy spirits pass to the golden palace of Aides and Persephone, are greeted, and proceed to the delightful Elysian Fields, where pleasant natural features and familiar occupations are found. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | DIONYSUS (BACCHUS). / BACCHUS OR LIBER. / AIDES (PLUTO). / PLUTO.; lines 4343-4363 | medium | Before Greek influence, Romans lacked a Greek Hades-like realm and imagined Orcus as a dark central-earth cavity for the dead. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CEREALIA. / VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS.; lines 6563-6631 | medium | Cadmus reigns happily for years, is deprived of his throne by his grandson Pentheus, retires with Harmonia to Illyria, and after death both are changed by Zeus into serpents and transferred to Elysium. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 746-830 | medium | Golden Age humans live joyously and peacefully, the earth yields without toil, they die painlessly, and they continue as ministering spirits in Hades. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 8076-8168 | medium | After initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries and priestly instruction, Heracles goes to the opening at Taenarum; Hermes conducts his descent, shades flee, and Hermes stops him from striking Medusa's shadow. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1014-1160 | medium | Warriors in Valhalla enjoy Odin's presence; Valkyrs serve them at long tables with horns of mead and portions of boar's flesh. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF; lines 11342-11475 | high | During the tempest, Frithiof sings to reassure the crew; when danger becomes extreme, he remembers that Ran requires gold from those who would rest beneath the ocean wave, cuts his armlet with his sword, and divides it among his men. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1163-1296 | medium | Odin is described as a wind-god riding through mid-air on an eight-footed steed; souls of the dead are said to be wafted away on storm wings, and Odin is leader of disembodied spirits. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF; lines 11722-11843 | medium | Sigurd Ring, dying, rejects a straw death, cuts death runes on his arm and breast, clasps Ingeborg, blesses Frithiof and his son, and dies amid imagery of Valhalla, Gjallar-horn, and the Asa feast. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12364-12427 | high | The gods see that Gimli, the highest heavenly abode, remains unconsumed, with a golden roof, and has become a refuge where the virtuous dwell in gladness. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12364-12427 | medium | The gods see that Gimli, the highest heavenly abode, remains unconsumed, with a golden roof, and has become a refuge where the virtuous dwell in gladness. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas / CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; lines 125-193 | medium | The listed titles include “The Rainbow Bridge,” “The Ride of the Valkyrs,” “Brunhild and Siegmund,” “The Road to Valhalla,” “Ægir,” and “Ran.” | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12651-12759 | high | The Pied Piper is compared with Orpheus and Amphion as a music-charmer; Odin as leader of the dead is compared with Mercury Psychopompus, both interpreted as wind carrying disembodied souls. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12761-12872 | medium | Idun falls from Yggdrasil into Nifl-heim; Bragi follows her; her wolf-skin is interpreted as winter snow preserving roots. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1298-1437 | medium | “Odin was the leader of all disembodied spirits” and was identified in the middle ages with the Pied Piper of Hamelin. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12980-13082 | high | Nifl-heim is compared with Hades; Mödgud guards the death bridge and demands blood; Charon demands an obolus; Garm guards Hel's gate like Cerberus; Nastrond is compared with Tartarus. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1709-1827 | medium | Near death, the semi-historical Odin assembles followers, cuts himself nine times in the breast with his spear, calls this carving Geir odds, and says he will return to Asgard to await them. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA; lines 1877-1990 | medium | Frigga invites virtuous husbands and wives to Fensalir after death to enjoy companionship and never part again. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA; lines 2123-2236 | medium | “to her were entrusted all those who died unwedded, whom she received and made happy for ever.” | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR; lines 2461-2608 | medium | Thor is admitted among the gods in Asgard, sits in the judgment hall, receives Thrud-vang/Thrud-heim, builds Bilskirnir with 540 halls, and welcomes dead thralls equally with masters. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR / CHAPTER V: TYR; lines 3495-3611 | medium | Tyr is associated with bravery and wisdom and commands Valkyrs, who choose warriors to dwell with Odin in Valhalla and aid the gods on the last day. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER VI: BRAGI / CHAPTER VII: IDUN / CHAPTER IX: FREY / CHAPTER X: FREYA; lines 4986-5124 | medium | When Freya reaches Asgard, the gods grant her Folkvang and the hall Sessrymnir. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XI: ULLER / CHAPTER XII: FORSETI / CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD; lines 5761-5893 | medium | Hermod delights in battle, is called valiant in battle, is said to be confounded with Irmin, accompanies Valkyrs, and escorts warriors to Valhalla. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XV: VIDAR / CHAPTER XVI: VALI / CHAPTER XVII: THE NORNS / CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS; lines 6396-6536 | high | The Valkyrs and their steeds personify clouds; their weapons are lightning; at Valfather's command they choose slain heroes fit for Valhalla and future aid to the gods. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVI: VALI / CHAPTER XVII: THE NORNS / CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL; lines 6660-6800 | high | Hel's under-earth realm is reached by a painful northern journey; Hermod rides Sleipnir nine nights to Giöll, whose bridge is guarded by Mödgud, who exacts a blood toll from spirits. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVI: VALI / CHAPTER XVII: THE NORNS / CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL; lines 6660-6800 | high | Hel's under-earth realm is reached by a painful northern journey; Hermod rides Sleipnir nine nights to Giöll, whose bridge is guarded by Mödgud, who exacts a blood toll from spirits. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVI: VALI / CHAPTER XVII: THE NORNS / CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL; lines 6802-6953 | medium | Criminal or impure spirits are banished to Nastrond, wade through venom streams and serpent structures, and are washed to Hvergelmir where Nidhug feeds on the dead after gnawing Yggdrasil's root. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVI: VALI / CHAPTER XVII: THE NORNS / CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL; lines 6802-6953 | high | Ran, Ægir's sister and mate, lurks near dangerous rocks, entices mariners, spreads her net, breaks vessels, and draws men down into her realm. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7325-7472 | high | Odin mounts Sleipnir and rides over Bifröst and the road to Giallar, Nifl-heim, the Helgate, Garm, and Hel's dark abode. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7594-7696 | high | The gods cannot revive Balder, are restrained from killing Hodur by the law of their peace-steads, and Frigga asks that someone go to Nifl-heim to entreat Hel to release Balder. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7698-7821 | high | Hermod rides over the trembling bridge, along the dark Hel-way, and across Giöll; Mödgud challenges him and notes he is a living rider trying to enter Hel's realm. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7698-7821 | high | Hermod rides over the trembling bridge, along the dark Hel-way, and across Giöll; Mödgud challenges him and notes he is a living rider trying to enter Hel's realm. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7824-7975 | high | Hermod journeys over fields of ice until he reaches a wall and grate, tightens Sleipnir's girths, leaps the grate, and enters. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7978-8048 | medium | A midsummer festival in honor of Balder the good commemorates his death and descent into the lower world; people gather outdoors, make bonfires, and watch the sun on the longest day. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 880-1012 | high | Odin's halls and Valhalla are described; Valhalla has 540 doors, a boar's head and eagle above the gate, spear walls, a shield roof, armour-decorated benches, and tables for the Einheriar. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 880-1012 | high | Odin's halls and Valhalla are described; Valhalla has 540 doors, a boar's head and eagle above the gate, spear walls, a shield roof, armour-decorated benches, and tables for the Einheriar. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 9644-9745 | high | Helgi joins Sinfiotli, they gather an army and fight the Hundings while Valkyrs hover to convey the slain to Valhalla. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 9644-9745 | high | Gudrun ceases to weep; Helgi’s spirit rides over Bifröst into Valhalla and becomes leader of the Einheriar. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 9644-9745 | high | Sigmund raises Sinfiotli’s body, carries it to the shore, and places it in a skiff brought by an old one-eyed boatman, who pushes off before Sigmund can board. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII; lines 10298-10348 | high | He tells of Circe and of sailing to the chill house of Hades to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet Teiresias, where he sees old comrades and his mother. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10351-10444 | high | Mercury summons the suitors’ ghosts, carries a golden wand linked with sleep and waking, and leads the whining ghosts down toward the abode of death; they are compared to bats squealing in a hollow cave. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10446-10532 | medium | In the underworld, a speaker addresses Amphimedon and asks why many fine young men have come beneath the ground, then recalls visiting with Menelaus to persuade Ulysses to join the war against Troy. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1950-2039 | medium | Proteus says Menelaus will not die in Argos but will be taken to the Elysian plain at the ends of the world, where Rhadamanthus reigns and life is easy; this is because Menelaus married Helen and is Jove's son-in-law. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VIII / BOOK IX / BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE.; lines 4680-4781 | high | Circe says no guide is needed; the North Wind will carry the ship across Oceanus to Proserpine's shore, groves, the rivers Pyriphlegethon, Cocytus, Styx, Acheron, and a rock near the river meeting. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4783-4874 | high | At sunset the ship reaches Oceanus and the land and city of the Cimmerians, a place of mist, darkness, and unpierced by sunlight; the crew beaches the ship and follows Oceanus to Circe's indicated place. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4783-4874 | medium | At sunset the ship reaches Oceanus and the land and city of the Cimmerians, a place of mist, darkness, and unpierced by sunlight; the crew beaches the ship and follows Oceanus to Circe's indicated place. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4876-4967 | high | Teiresias returns to the house of Hades after speaking his prophecies; Odysseus remains until his mother tastes the blood, recognizes him, and speaks fondly. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4876-4967 | high | The mother asks how Odysseus came alive to the abode of darkness and says terrible waters and Oceanus separate the living from these places, which require a ship to cross. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4969-5068 | high | A dead female speaker addresses the narrator as her son, explains that bodies perish by consuming fire after life leaves and the soul flits away like a dream, then tells him to return to daylight and remember these things for his wife. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5070-5169 | high | Ulysses agrees to continue and introduces a sadder tale of comrades who died on their return through the treachery of a wicked woman. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5070-5169 | high | Agamemnon tastes blood, recognizes Ulysses, weeps, and reaches to embrace him, but has no strength or substance; Ulysses asks whether he died by storm at sea or enemies on land. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5171-5269 | high | Ulysses tells Achilles that he came to consult Teiresias for advice about returning home to Ithaca, after Achilles remarks that Ulysses has ventured down to the house of Hades among the dead. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5171-5269 | high | Ulysses sees Minos son of Jove holding a golden sceptre and sitting in judgement on the dead, with ghosts gathered around to learn his sentences. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5171-5269 | medium | Ulysses sees huge Orion in an asphodel meadow driving ghosts of wild beasts he had killed, holding an unbreakable bronze club. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 5271-5317 | high | Hercules is seen as a phantom, while the narration says he feasts with the immortal gods and has Hebe as wife. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88 / BOOK XII / THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, THE CATTLE OF THE SUN.; lines 5320-5420 | high | After clearing Oceanus, the voyagers reach Aeaea, draw the ship onto the sands, sleep on shore, and wait for dawn. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XVII / BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX; lines 8864-8959 | medium | Penelope recounts that the daughters of Pandareus were orphaned when the gods killed their parents; Venus fed them, Juno and Diana gave them gifts, Minerva endowed them with accomplishments, and storm winds carried them away to become handmaids to the dread Erinyes. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | THE MOON-SOUL AND THE SEA / LIFE IN DEATH / THE WHOLE AND THE PART / THE DIVINE FRIEND; lines 1180-1200 | medium | "Look on me, for thou art my companion in the grave / On the night when thou shalt pass from shop and dwelling." | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | THE DIVINE ABSORPTION / LOVE MORE THAN SORROW AND JOY / SEPARATION / A MOTHER WHOSE CHILDREN WERE IN THE BELOVED'S KEEPING; lines 2218-2232 | medium | A woman bore many children in succession, but none lived beyond three or four months. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION / EDITORIAL NOTE / INTRODUCTION; lines 334-439 | high | Islamic belief is described as having eight Paradises arranged within one another in ascending stages, the highest being the Garden of Eden; they are gardens with trees, flowers, palaces, precious stones, houris, and rivers named Kevser, Tesním, and Selsebíl. | record |
| Greek | Phaedrus | Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION.; lines 208-288 | high | “After death comes the judgment”; bad souls go under the earth, good souls to heavenly joy, and after a thousand years souls choose another life; some eventually regain wings, and souls may pass into beasts and return to human form. | record |
| Greek | Phaedrus | PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 2323-2387 | high | The philosopher is not subject to judgment; others are judged after a first life and go either to under-earth correction and punishment or to a heavenly place borne by justice. | record |
| Greek | Phaedrus | PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 2551-2634 | high | They pass out of the body unwinged yet eager to soar; those who have begun the heavenward pilgrimage do not descend to darkness or the journey beneath the earth, but live in light and later receive wings with the same plumage. | record |
| Greek | Phaedrus | Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION.; lines 290-374 | high | Self-controlled lovers live happily, master themselves, leave the body, proceed on a pilgrim's progress, receive wings, and fly away with the same wings. | record |
| Greek | Phaedrus | Phaedrus / PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION.; lines 804-884 | medium | “the charioteers and their steeds stand upon the dome of heaven” and behold intangible invisible essences not objects of sight. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 1156-1232 | medium | Dante’s mysticism is said to stand with its feet on earth; his political life, visionary journeys through heaven and hell, enduring fire, and vivid preservation of his age are emphasized. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION / FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ; lines 1417-1552 | high | The speaker distrusts a foe, mentions a synagogue lamp and monastic torches, says he is drunken, asks not to be placed in the Book of Doom or judged, and refers to Fate’s secret writing on a forehead. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION / FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ; lines 1554-1689 | low | The passage names Waters of Life and Irem's Paradise, then says people sit beside a mighty stream, sing of wine, and go their way. | record |
| Sufi | Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XXXVIII / XXXIX / XLIII / NOTES; lines 3221-3341 | high | Kausar is a Paradise stream or central spring feeding a great square lake; righteous souls rest there after crossing a sword-sharp bridge over Hell. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXVII. The Coats Of Bark. / Canto XLVI. The Halt. / Canto XLIX. The Crossing Of The Rivers. / Canto LXII. Dasaratha Consoled.; lines 19379-19551 | high | The father asks the son to delay going to Yama's realm and imagines petitioning Yama, Vivasvat's son and King of justice, to restore the child. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXVII. The Coats Of Bark. / Canto XLVI. The Halt. / Canto XLIX. The Crossing Of The Rivers. / Canto LXII. Dasaratha Consoled.; lines 19379-19551 | medium | The father and mother shed or pay funeral water for the dead and complete rites with water. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLVI. The Halt. / Canto XLIX. The Crossing Of The Rivers. / Canto LXII. Dasaratha Consoled. / Canto LXVI. The Embalming.; lines 19676-19768 | medium | Kauśalyā addresses Kaikeyī, says Rāma has gone far away, the king has sought the skies, and accuses Kaikeyī and a hump-backed maid of laying the royal house in death. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXVII. The Praise Of Kings. / Canto LXVIII. The Envoys. / Canto LXXV. The Abjuration. / Canto LXXVI. The Funeral.; lines 21019-21132 | low | Bharat laments beside the dead king, asking why he leaves his son and people, and who will guard Ayodhyá when the king has sought the sky and Ráma has been forced to fly. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XC. The Hermitage. / Canto XCVIII. Lakshman Calmed. / Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned.; lines 23974-24121 | medium | Bharata says Dasaratha died after Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana left to keep the vow; he asks Rama to pay water rites, since the gift from beloved hands remains fresh in the spirit-world. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens.; lines 24460-24568 | medium | Rāma compares kin and wealth to drifting logs that meet and part, says all must travel the path of sire and ancestors, and compares life to torrents falling downward. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens.; lines 24460-24568 | high | Rāma says the father won the skies and a heavenly home through care, gifts, duty, largess, rites, and a noble life, then cast aside his aged body and gained bliss in Brahmā's heavenly home. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens.; lines 24713-24863 | medium | “A son is born his sire to free / From Put’s infernal pains”; Rāma connects this doctrine with Gayā and rites for ancestral shades. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXIX. The Forest. / BOOK III. / Canto I. The Hermitage. / Canto V. Sarabhanga.; lines 26707-26883 | high | Ráma, Lakshmaṇ, and Sítá approach Śarabhanga beside the holy flame, bow and sit; Śarabhanga explains that Indra came to take him to Brahmá’s sphere, earned by penance, but he waited to see Ráma. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXVIII. Khara Dismounted. / Canto XLIII. The Wondrous Deer. / Canto XLVI. The Guest. / Canto LI. The Combat.; lines 33639-33794 | medium | The Maithil lady says death is near Rávaṇ, names Vaitaraṇi as a foamy blood flood, describes a dark sword-leaved wood and iron-thorn thickets, and recalls Ráma’s destruction of many fiends. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto VI. The Tokens. / Canto XI. Dundubhi. / Canto XII. The Palm Trees. / Canto XIV. The Challenge.; lines 39454-39589 | medium | The unfailing shaft from Ráma’s bow is said to bring supreme bliss and light the way to Brahmá’s imperishable worlds. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto VI. The Tokens. / Canto XI. Dundubhi. / Canto XII. The Palm Trees. / Canto XIV. The Challenge.; lines 40089-40239 | low | Tárá bends to the ground, embraces Báli, sobs on his breast, asks why a warrior and glorious king lies on the cold earth, mourns lost pleasures with him, and imagines him on the road to heaven preparing a fairer city. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto VI. The Tokens. / Canto XI. Dundubhi. / Canto XII. The Palm Trees. / Canto XIV. The Challenge.; lines 40241-40395 | medium | Báli lies dying, looks at Sugríva, attributes events to Fate, yields the Vánar realm, and says he must go at Yáma’s call to Yáma’s gloomy hall. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto VI. The Tokens. / Canto XI. Dundubhi. / Canto XII. The Palm Trees. / Canto XIV. The Challenge.; lines 40397-40571 | medium | Tárá brushes battle dust from Báli’s hair, tells Angad to look at his father, says Báli is borne to Yáma’s halls, and instructs the child to salute the king. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXI. The Envoy. / Canto XXXVII. The Gathering. / Canto XL. The Army Of The East. / Canto XLI. The Army Of The South.; lines 42772-42919 | medium | The speaker gathers a chosen southern band, naming Nila, Jambavan, Hanuman, other lords, and Angad as chief and guide, and orders them to explore toward the southern coast. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXVII. The Gathering. / Canto XL. The Army Of The East. / Canto XLI. The Army Of The South. / Canto XLII. The Army Of The West.; lines 42922-43030 | low | Sugriva says the sun travels through heaven only as far as Asta, then sinks behind it; beyond lies a sunless sea unknown to him. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XL. The Army Of The East. / Canto XLI. The Army Of The South. / Canto XLII. The Army Of The West. / Canto XLIII. The Army Of The North.; lines 43033-43125 | medium | The North Kurus are described as the resting place of holy spirits of the blest, with silver streams, bright pools, jeweled flowers, blue lotuses, pearls, precious stones, gold-fruited trees, pearl-decked maidens, song, and music. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | CAREY AND MARSHMAN. / SCHLEGEL. / GORRESIO. / HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE.; lines 57756-57837 | high | Rávaṇ invades the kingdom of departed spirits and fights its sovereign Yáma. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | SCHLEGEL. / GORRESIO. / HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES.; lines 58041-58109 | medium | In a later mythological epoch, Gandharvas are musicians in Indra’s paradise; Apsarases are wives of Gandharvas and are promised as a reward to heroes fallen in battle entering Indra’s paradise. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES. / H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE.; lines 58887-59007 | medium | Gorresio explains that Indian belief divided the universe into worlds or lokas: heaven, earth, and hell in one division, and seven worlds in another, including Bhúrloka, Bhuvarloka, Svarloka, and Brahmaloka; spirits reaching Brahmaloka are exempt from rebirth. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta. / Canto XXXIX. The Sons Of Sagar. / Canto XL. The Cleaving Of The Earth. / Canto XLI. Kapil.; lines 5908-6061 | medium | For Bhagírath’s sake Śiva ends Gangá’s wandering and sends her into Vindu’s lake; seven rivers issue from her, and the seventh follows Bhagírath. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta. / Canto XXXIX. The Sons Of Sagar. / Canto XL. The Cleaving Of The Earth. / Canto XLI. Kapil.; lines 6063-6131 | high | Brahma, arriving with celestial beings, praises Bhagirath and says Sagar's sons have won bliss and heaven and will retain godlike rank as long as the ocean stands by the land. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES; lines 63301-63465 | high | A note says only highest merit grants permanent heaven; lower merit grants temporary heavenly residence. Yayāti went to heaven and was thrown down to earth when his term expired. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES; lines 63467-63548 | medium | “The great pilgrimage to the Himálayas, in order to die there.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426.; lines 63550-63687 | high | “The southern region is the abode of Yama the Indian Pluto, and of departed spirits.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426.; lines 63689-63846 | medium | Put is described as a hell-region for men with no son to perform funeral rites; putra is explained as a deliverer from Put. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426.; lines 63848-64027 | medium | Daśaratha is described as dead; although in heaven, he still takes loving interest in his son’s fortunes. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426.; lines 64029-64181 | high | The spirits of the good stay in heaven until their accumulated merit is exhausted, then return to earth as falling stars. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO.; lines 64295-64428 | high | Merit from holy or austere life grants a temporary seat in bliss; when merit is exhausted, return to earth is unavoidable. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 64710-64863 | high | The distant south beyond the earth is described as the home of departed spirits and the city of Yama, god of death. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 65264-65393 | medium | The south is identified as the region of Yama, God of Death, and as the place of departed spirits. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 65395-65547 | medium | A murderer of an ambassador is said to go to Taptakumbha, the hell of heated caldrons. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | THE REPUBLIC. / PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 10549-10633 | medium | Musaeus and his son are said to take the just into the world below, where saints lie on couches at a feast, drunk and crowned with garlands. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | THE REPUBLIC. / PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 10635-10722 | medium | Books attributed to Musaeus and Orpheus are used for rituals persuading people and cities that sacrifices and amusements can make expiations and atonements for the living and dead; these mysteries redeem from pains of hell. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III.; lines 11800-11967 | medium | The dialogue says courageous people must learn lessons that remove fear of death and should not prefer defeat or slavery because the world below seems terrible. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 1543-1614 | medium | Religion is to be purified to banish fear of death; poets are asked not to abuse hell and to remove untrue and discouraging tales about the world below. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 165-251 | low | The passage states that Plato influenced Renaissance and later thought, calls the Republic the first treatise upon education, compares Plato to Dante or Bunyan for a revelation of another life and to Bacon for unity of knowledge, and calls him father of idealism. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK IV. / BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII.; lines 20154-20256 | medium | After raising successors, the rulers 'will depart to the Islands of the Blest and dwell there.' | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24305-24376 | high | Er son of Armenius, a Pamphylian, is introduced as a hero who was slain in battle. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24305-24376 | high | Er reports that his soul left the body and journeyed with a great company to a mysterious place. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24378-24425 | medium | The spirits in the meadow tarry seven days; on the eighth day they must proceed on their journey. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24427-24481 | high | Er and the spirits arrive before Lachesis; a prophet arranges them, takes lots and samples of lives from Lachesis, mounts a high pulpit, and begins to speak. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24483-24572 | high | After all souls choose, Lachesis sends each chosen genius as guardian and fulfiller; the genius leads the soul to Clotho and Atropos, where destiny is ratified and made irreversible, and the souls pass beneath Necessity’s throne. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 4013-4089 | medium | When his time comes, he departs in peace to the islands of the blest, is honored with sacrifices, and receives worship approved by the Pythian oracle. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5706-5773 | high | Er says his soul traveled with a company to a place with two chasms in the earth and two corresponding chasms in heaven. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5775-5855 | high | On the eighth day the pilgrim souls resume their journey and after several days see a bright rainbow-like line of light. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5857-5941 | high | After the souls choose, Lachesis sends each a genius or attendant; they pass under Clotho’s hand and spindle, to Atropos, and beneath the throne of Necessity. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6209-6282 | high | The vision of another world is ascribed to Er, son of Armenius; Clement of Alexandria is said to have identified him with Zoroaster. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6284-6350 | high | The narrative includes a thousand-year pilgrimage, Ardiaeus, Er coming to life on the twelfth day, seven days in a meadow, four days to a column of light, a twentieth lot, souls blaming others, waters of Forgetfulness, Er not drinking, Odysseus desiring rest, Er's return to the body, and other souls shooting like stars to birth. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 668-755 | medium | Cephalus says that in old age belief in the world below grows, and that having acted justly, avoided compelled injustice through poverty, and not deceived anyone are great blessings. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 7785-7872 | medium | The passage criticizes Plato’s education for uniformity, abstraction, overemphasis on mathematics, and the moulding of citizens; it also says his citizens would not gain the knowledge attributed to pilgrims in the vision of Er through experience of evil. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. / THE REPUBLIC. / PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I.; lines 8772-8893 | medium | “Hope... cherishes the soul of him who lives in justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey.” | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 1007-1137 | medium | After building an earthly home, the speaker encounters a face; his invisible soul brings a divine message, saves him from earthly fetters, bids him rise to skies and waters of eternity, and he drinks wine of immortality from a golden chalice before returning the cup. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 1140-1298 | high | The passage casts the self onto an ocean: the body is the boat, will the helm, life the sails, the soul steers the barque past death's shoals, and the cargo is consigned to the Master Pilot who rules winds and tides. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 875-1004 | high | Death's Angel calls; death's fears are attributed to earthly priests rather than the Potter; the soul crosses a stream, reaches a further shore, and assumes heavenly garb. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 875-1004 | high | The body is a tent where the soul briefly dwells; death releases the soul to a new realm of thought, and fear of the afterlife would cease if this truth were known. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 10370-10604 | medium | The quatrain describes verdure, crystal Kausars, plains once bare as hell now smiling as heaven, and maids of Paradise. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 11733-11935 | medium | Khayyam's body is called a tent, his soul its inhabitant, and annihilation its long home; after the soul leaves, slaves strike and repitch the tent for an oncoming soul. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 11733-11935 | medium | The speaker warns a friend that he will soon be separated from his soul and go behind the curtain of God's secrecy; he urges drinking because origin and destination are unknown. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 12128-12323 | medium | Life's capital has slipped away; no one returns from the other world to give news of the travelers who have gone. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 12913-13101 | medium | Those who have taken the long road have not returned to give news; the friend is warned not to hope in the sordid world because he will not return here. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 13103-13293 | medium | The departed have not returned to tell the secrets hidden behind the curtain; the speaker praises humility over prayer without sincerity. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 14821-15012 | low | The speaker sees the sod of Paradise and the brook of Koocer and says the field outside Hell is transformed into a celestial sojourn. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / FOOTNOTES:; lines 15433-15578 | medium | Kausar is the head-stream of the Muhammadan Paradise; other rivers flow from it, and Ali is its Saki. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | XXXVI. / XXXVII. / XLII. / XLIII.; lines 3126-3140 | medium | “that Angel of the darker Drink / At last shall find you by the river-brink” | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | XXXVII. / XLII. / XLIII. / XLIV.; lines 3143-3223 | medium | The body resembles a tent in the perishable world; the soul is a Sultan; the ferrash of fate dismantles the tent after the Sultan rises and prepares for another guest or halting-place. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | XLIV. / XLVIII. / LVIII. / LXIII.; lines 3552-3652 | high | “myriads who / Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through”; “Not one returns to tell us of the Road.” | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | XLIV. / XLVIII. / LVIII. / LXIII.; lines 3552-3652 | high | “I sent my Soul through the Invisible”; the soul returned and answered, “I myself am Heav'n and Hell.” | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | PUBLISHER / ILLUSTRATIONS / TABLE OF CONTENTS / GENERAL INTRODUCTION; lines 371-459 | medium | Some authors distinguish seven Sufi voyage stages corresponding to celestial degrees for the soul after death; metaphysicians object that the soul cannot return to a determined place, and celestial intelligence will absorb the soul after bodily separation. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | STANZA / STANZA / STANZA / STANZA; lines 4820-4867 | medium | “the Angel of the drink / Of Darkness” finds “you by the river-brink,” offers a cup, and invites the Soul to the lips to drink without shrinking. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 6929-7159 | medium | The speaker says to turn from learning to the cup, spurn lore of the world to come except Kausar, and pawn or burn the turban for wine; the note defines Kausar as the river of wine in Paradise. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 8071-8296 | medium | No one who went before has returned to tell of the long road; when the addressee goes, he will return no more. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 8298-8522 | medium | Those who go away are not seen returning to teach the other world's hidden learning; the note comments on formal Muslim prayers. | record |
| Greek | Symposium | Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION. / SYMPOSIUM; lines 1320-1353 | medium | The gods honor Achilles above Alcestis and send him to the Islands of the Blest. | record |
| Greek | Symposium | Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION.; lines 64-148 | medium | Achilles' love is called courageous and true because he avenges Patroclus despite knowing his own death will follow; the gods reward him by sending him to the islands of the blest. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE PILLOW-TALK / THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN; lines 4083-4199 | medium | Fraech's body is borne to camp; the army keens him; women in green tunics stand over the corpse and carry him into the fairy dwelling, after which the ford and elfmound are named for Fraech. | record |