GODS, HEROES, AND DEATH
The Descent of Ishtar to the Nether World
Gilgamesh in Search of Immortality
DEATH AND THE INTERMEDIATE STATE
The Moment of Death as Described by the Upanishads
The Buddhist Conception of the Intermediate State
Tibetan Book of the Dead: Death and Intermediate States
FUNERARY RITUALS
A Vedic Funerary Hymn
The Aztec Funerary Ritual
EGYPTIAN CONCEPTIONS OF DEATH
The Dead Pharaoh Ascends to Heaven
The Dead Pharaoh Becomes Osiris
Osiris- The Prototype of Every Soul Who Hopes to Conquer Death
Survival as Ba, Survival in the Tomb are Complementary
The Egyptian Land of Silence and Darkness
THE ROADS TO THE NETHER WORLD
The Initiates in the Orphic-Pythagorean Brotherhood
The Iranian Afterlife: Crossing the Cinvat Bridge
A Siberian Funerary Ceremony
The Winnebago Indian Road to the Land of the Dead
The Road to the Soul's World: Thompson River Tribes
Journey to the Land of the Grandfather: Guarayu Belief
A Polynesian Journey into the Nether World
GREEK-ROMAN CONCEPTIONS OF DEATH AND IMMORTALITY
'Even in the house of Hades there is left something. . .' :Homer
'The mead of asphodel, where the spirits dwell. . .'
A Roman View of the Afterlife
Empedocles on the Transmigration of the Soul
Plato on Transmigration: Myth of Er
Plato on the Immortality of the Soul
ORPHEUS MYTHS
A Polynesian Orpheus
A Californian Orpheus: Tachi Yokut Myth
THE END OF THE WORLD
Ahura Mazda Teaches Yima How to Save all that is Best
The Buddha Foretells the Gradual Decline of Religion
Muhammad Speaks of the Day of Doom
MESSIANIC PROPHECIES AND MILLENARIAN MOVEMENTS
The Prophecy Concerning Maitreya, the Future Buddha
Nichiren Sees Japan as the Centre of Buddhism's Regeneration
The Ghost Dance Religion (Sioux): The Ceremony
John Frum: A Millenarian Movement in Tanna
