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Nekyia

In ancient Greek cult practice and literature, a nekyia or nekya (Ancient Greek: νέκυια, νεκυία; νεκύα) is a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future," i.e., necromancy. A nekyia is not necessarily the same thing as a katabasis. While they both afford the opportunity to converse with the dead, only a katabasis is the actual…

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Questioning ghosts

The Odyssey

The Aeneid

Menippus and Lucian of Samosata

Jung

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Edges59
Triples84
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033333
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related to Menippus and Lucian of Samosata · 24
Nekyia → Babylonian Magus, CE, Cerberus, Charon, Diogenes Laërtius, German, Greek, Hades, He, Hesiod, Homer, In Lucian's, In The Lives, Lucian, Menippus, Mithrobarzanes, Philosophers, Pluto, Pyriphlegethon, Rudolf Helm
related to Questioning ghosts · 21
Nekyia → Acheron, Among, Avernus, Ephyra, Epirus, Greece, Hades, Hecate, Heraclea Pontica, Hermes, Italy, Necromanteion, One, Other, Persephone, Several, Such, Taenaron, The, The Underworld
related to The Odyssey · 16
Nekyia → Book, Classical, Hades, Halls, He, Herakles, Hieronymous Bosch, Ithaca, Ocean, Odysseus, Odysseus's, Odyssey, River, The, There, Tiresias
related to Cultural references · 15
Nekyia → Blue Period, Child, East, English, Gnosticism, Hellenism, In, Jung, Jungian, Michael Tippett, Nekya, Our Time, Picasso's, The, Thomas Mann's
related to Night sea-journey · 5
Nekyia → His, Jung, Jungian James Hillman, Katabasis, The
related to Jung · 3
Nekyia → For Jung, Jolande Jacobi, Jung

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underworld journey katabasis hades odyssey descent dead jung ghosts menippus example greek night also like practice rite however used lucian

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Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesThomas Mann's0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesEast0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesGnosticism0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesHellenism0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesJung0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesPicasso's0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesBlue Period0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesNekya0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesIn0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesEnglish0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesMichael Tippett0.60section
Nekyiarelated to Cultural referencesJungian0.60section

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