I could only think of the late Penn Station and a booming voice announcing the departure of some poor soul to the nether world.
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The myth of Inanna's descent to the nether world describes how the goddess dresses and prepares herself: "She held the lapis-lazuli measuring rod and measuring line in her hand."cf. Inana's descent to the nether world line 25. The Sumerian has: gi-diš-nindan eš2-gana2 za-gin3 šu ba-ni-in-du8 i.e. taken literally the rod would have the length of one nindan (6 cubit = 5.94m) and the eš2-gana2 the surveyor's line - would be ten nindan in length.
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The Nether World (1889) is a novel written by the English author George Gissing. The plot concerns several poor families living in the slums of 19th century London. Rich in naturalistic detail, the novel concentrates on the individual problems and hardships which result from the typical shortages experienced by the lower classes—want of money, employment and decent living conditions. The Nether World is pessimistic and concerns exclusively the lives of poor people: there is no juxtaposition with the world of the rich.
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2, according to which he was the angel set over the world and Tartarus (ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ κόσμου καὶ τοῦ Ταρτάρου). In 1 Enoch, Tartarus is the nether world generally. a place of "total darkness".
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It was Hui Niang's voice. She said, “Open the coffin, hurry up. I have come back”. When people opened the coffin, Hui Ning jumped out from it and told people, “Paper in this world becomes money in the nether world.
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By that stroke of the spear, Goddess Parvati came out of the Nether World. Shiva himself named her as Vitasta. He had excavated with the spear a ditch measuring one Vitasti (a particular measure of length defined either as a long span between the extended thumb and little finger, or as the distance between the wrist and the tip of the fingers, and said to be about 9 inches), through which the river – gone to the Nether World – had come out, so she was given the name Vitasta by him.The Nilamata Purana English Translation by Dr. Ved Kumari Ghai, verses 247–261.
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George Robert Gissing, ; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best-known novels, which have reappeared in modern editions, include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893).
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Kaya's conditions worsen. She is wheeled into surgery. The professor and Aman and Shubh hurry into the River Palace to confront the evil spirit of Rani Mohini. They connect the clues from the amulet and from Ranjit Singh and deduce that the spirit of Mohini can be dispatched to the nether world when her mortal remains (ashes) are dissolved.
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Both entities appear in a scriptural context of animal or child sacrifice to "non-existent" false gods. From Chaldea, the term shedu traveled to the Israelites. The writers of the Tanach applied the word as a dialogism to Canaanite deities. There are indications that demons in popular Hebrew mythology were believed to come from the nether world.
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The fish was caught by people of Ahiravana, who ruled Patala, the nether-world. Markardhwaja was discovered when the stomach of the fish was cut open and thus he was named after it and was brought up by them. When he grew up, Ahiravana, seeing his strength and virility gave him job of guarding, the gates of his Kingdom.
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The opera is a telling of the story of Helen of Troy after her husband's (Menelaos) death. It opens with his funeral banquet. Helen descends to the nether world to seek Achilles on the Island of the Blest. Finding Achilles the two return from Hades and proceed to sing love duets until an old fisherman convinces Helen that no love can last forever.
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Ananta was saved by Brahma who directed him to go to the nether world and support the world on his hoods, and thus became the king of the Nagas in Patala. Rudra, who consumes the three worlds, is believed to have emanated from the face of Ananta. By the grace of Ananta, Garga was able to master the sciences of astronomy and causation.
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Joseph's fortune is squandered in the financial markets of the United States, a misfortune that he cannot survive. 'The Nether World' opens near Clerkenwell Close in central London, and throughout the novel focusses on the Clerkenwell area, then largely working class and a centre of workshop and small factory trades. The novel is remarkable for its very strong sense of place.
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According to Hindu legends, Vairamudi, the diamond crown, was stolen from Lord Narayana, when he was asleep at his abode in the Ksheera Sagara (Milky Ocean), by Virochana. Virochana was the king of demons and the son of Prahlada. Garuda was asked by the lord's devotees to bring back the crown. Garuda went after Virochana to the nether world, fought with the demon king and flew back with the crown.
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In the nether world, the devotee Bali seeks instruction from his grandfather, Prahlada, to worship and seek refuge in Vishnu (16.46-69). Prahlada is also directly linked with the legend of Narasimha, the fourth (man-lion) avatar of Vishnu, who killed Hiranyakashipu. Hiranyakashipu is the father of Prahlada, great-grandfather of Bali, and elder brother of Hiranyaksha. The latter was killed by Varaha, the third (boar) avatar of Vishnu.
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However, Ward believed in theocracy rather than democracy. One of his epigrams was: > The upper world shall Rule, While Stars will run their race: The nether > world obey, While People keep their place. Ward thought that justice and the law were essential to the liberty of the individual. Some have said that The Body of Liberties began the American tradition of liberty, leading eventually to the United States Constitution.
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One of the integral parts of the ritual was a horse, which was stolen by the jealous Indra. Sagara sent all his sons all over the earth to search for the horse. They found it in the nether-world (or Underworld) next to a meditating sage Kapil tied by Lord Indra (the king of Swarg). Believing that the sage had stolen the horse, they hurled insults at him and caused his penance to be disturbed.
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Taoist witches also use a small carving made from willow wood for communicating with the spirits of the dead. The image is sent to the nether world, where the disembodied spirit is deemed to enter it, and give the desired information to surviving relatives on its return. Vol I p. 2 The willow is a famous subject in many East Asian nations' cultures, particularly in pen and ink paintings from China and Japan.
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The river's name is derived from an apocyryphal legend regarding the origin of the river as explained in Nilamata Purana. Goddess Parvati was requested by sage Kasyapa to come to Kashmir for purification of the land from evil practices and impurities of Pisachas living there. Goddess Parvati then assumed the form of a river in the Nether World. Then Lord Shiva made a stroke with his spear near the abode of Nila (Verinag Spring).
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The myth of Inanna's descent to the nether world describes how the goddess dresses and prepares herself: Lachesis in Greek mythology was one of the three Moirai (or Fates) and "allotter" (or drawer of lots). She measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Her Roman equivalent was Decima (the 'Tenth'). Varuna in the Rigveda, is described as using the Sun as a measuring rod to lay out space in a creation myth.
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Alföldi interpreted the numismatic image as the Latin Diana "conceived as a threefold unity of the divine huntress, the Moon goddess, and the goddess of the nether world, Hekate," noting that Diana montium custos nemoremque virgo ("keeper of the mountains and virgin of Nemi") is addressed by Horace as diva triformis ("three-form goddess").Horace, Carmine 3.22.1. Diana is commonly addressed as Trivia by Virgil and Catullus. The votive offerings, none earlier than the fourth century BC,Alföldi 1960::141 and bibliography.
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David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King by Baruch Halpern – p.334 Reference 1 A certain confusion exists in cuneiform literature between Ninurta (slayer of Asag and wielder of Sharur, an enchanted mace) and Nergal. Nergal has epithets such as the "raging king", the "furious one", and the like. A play upon his name—separated into three elements as Ne-uru-gal (light of the great Ûru; lord of the great dwelling)—expresses his position at the head of the nether-world pantheon.
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Alföldi interpreted the numismatic image as the Latin Diana "conceived as a threefold unity of the divine huntress, the Moon goddess, and the goddess of the nether world, Hekate," noting that Diana montium custos nemoremque virgo ("keeper of the mountains and virgin of Nemi") is addressed by Horace as diva triformis ("three-form goddess").Horace, Carmine 3.22.1. Diana is commonly addressed as Trivia by Virgil and Catullus. The votive offerings, none earlier than the fourth century BC,Alföldi 1960::141 and bibliography.
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Andreas Alföldi interpreted an image on a late Republican coin as the Latin Diana "conceived as a threefold unity of the divine huntress, the Moon goddess and the goddess of the nether world, Hekate".Alföldi, "Diana Nemorensis", American Journal of Archaeology (1960:137-44) p 141. This coin, minted by P. Accoleius Lariscolus in 43 BCE, has been acknowledged as representing an archaic statue of Diana Nemorensis.A. Alföldi"Diana Nemorensis" in American journal of Archaeology 64 1960 p. 137-144.
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This is evidenced by Egyptian expressions which incorporate the word ib, such as Awi-ib for "happy" (literally, "long of heart"), Xak-ib for "estranged" (literally, "truncated of heart"). In Egyptian religion, the heart was the key to the afterlife. It was conceived as surviving death in the nether world, where it gave evidence for, or against, its possessor. It was thought that the heart was examined by Anubis and a variety of deities during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony.
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His subjects include writers and painters (Federico García Lorca, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman); people who stepped outside the moral code (Oscar Wilde); political radicals (Rosa Luxemburg); people forced into violent situations against their will; and, eventually, the dregs of society. Vazakas observed people of the “nether world” only from a distance, but he lauded the rare individuals who serve down-and-out people without trying to reform them. Vazakas was proud to be characterized as a poet who demonstrated a “moral fervor” in his approach to life.
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As punishment Enlil was dispatched to the underworld kingdom of Ereshkigal, where Ninlil joined him. Enlil impregnated her disguised as the gatekeeper, where upon she gave birth to their son Nergal, god of death. In a similar manner she conceived the underworld god Ninazu when Enlil impregnated her disguised as the man of the river of the nether world, a man-devouring river. Later Enlil disguised himself as the man of the boat, impregnating her with a fourth deity Enbilulu, god of rivers and canals.
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324x324px Because of its rarity, her most sought after book is The Descent of Ishtar, or Ishtar's descent to the nether world. Only 226 copies were printed. and was printed by Eragny Press which was established by Lucien Pissarro and his wife Esther (née Bensusan). White's book is a translation of the Seventh Tablet in the Deluge Series and is the story of Inanna-Ishtar's descent into the Underworld. White is attributed as the translator however she relied on others to translate the tablet and then ‘prepared [it] for the press’.
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New York: Cambridge University Press. Andreas Alföldi interpreted a late Republican numismatic image as Diana "conceived as a threefold unity of the divine huntress, the Moon goddess and the goddess of the nether world, Hekate".Alföldi, "Diana Nemorensis", American Journal of Archaeology (1960:137-44) p 141. This coin shows that the triple goddess cult image still stood in the lucus of Nemi in 43 BC. The Lake of Nemi was Triviae lacus for Virgil (Aeneid 7.516), while Horace called Diana montium custos nemoremque virgo ("keeper of the mountains and virgin of Nemi") and diva triformis ("three-form goddess").
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In that first chapter, which is the basis for the 9th–12th-century Bundahishn, the creation of sixteen lands by Ahura Mazda is countered by the Angra Mainyu's creation of sixteen scourges such as winter, sickness, and vice. "This shift in the position of Ahura Mazda, his total assimilation to this Bounteous Spirit [Mazda's instrument of creation], must have taken place in the 4th century BC at the latest; for it is reflected in Aristotle's testimony, which confronts Areimanios with Oromazdes (apud Diogenes Laertius, 1.2.6)." Yasht 15.43 assigns Angra Mainyu to the nether world, a world of darkness.
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The Mystery Mind is a 1920 American crime drama silent black and white film serial directed by Will S. Davis and written by John W. Grey and Arthur B. Reeve. An homonym novel is based on this film, also written by Grey. The episodes of the film were The Hypnotic Club, The Fires of Fury, The War of Wills, The Fumes of Fear, Though Waves, A Halo of Help, The Nether World, The Mystery Mind, Dual Personality, Hounds of Hate, The Sleepwalker, The Temple of the Occult, The Building Ray, The Water Cure, and The Gold of the Gods.
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While teaching at the Seminary in Bengaluru, he applied for the Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship and went on study leave from the Seminary to the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg for doctoral studies in Old Testament where he studied under Claus Westermann and Gerhard von Rad who were experts in Old Testament studies. During E. C. John's study period in Heidelberg, his companions included Nicholas J. Tromp, MSC who spent a period of study at the University.Nicholas J. Tromp, Primitive Conceptions of Death and the Nether World in the Old Testament, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, 1969, pp.31, 165.
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Then, her husband took two piles of paper to burn to his parents, hoping it could make his parents have a better life in the nether world. After witnessing the function of paper, people in mourning hall started to buy the paper from Cai Mo's paper factory to burn. The story of Hui Niang spread quickly, therefore, unmarketable paper of Cai Mo's paper factory sold out within a few days. The day was October first of the lunar calendar when Hui Niang “returned back from hell”, so people gradually offered sacrifice to their ancestors in front of their graves by burning paper.
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In the Egyptian religion, the heart was the key to the afterlife. It was essential to surviving death in the nether world, where it gave evidence for, or against, its possessor. Like the physical body (ẖt), the heart was a necessary part of judgement in the afterlife and it was to be carefully preserved and stored within the mummified body with a heart scarab carefully secured to the body above it to prevent it from telling tales. According to the Text of the Book of Breathings,It was thought that the heart was examined by Anubis and the deities during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony.
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The 1888 Whitechapel murders perpetrated by Jack the Ripper brought international attention to the squalor and criminality of the East End, while penny dreadfuls and a slew of sensational novels like George Gissing's The Nether World and the works of Charles Dickens painted grim pictures of London's deprived areas for middle and upper class readers. The single most influential work on London poverty was Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London, a 17-volume work published between 1889 and 1903. Booth painstakingly charted levels of deprivation throughout the city, painting a bleak but also sympathetic picture of the wide variety of experiences lived by London's poor.
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The novels he wrote in this period depict a conservative view of the working class. Gissing used £150 earned from the rights to The Nether World in 1889 to fund a long-awaited trip to Italy to pursue his interest in the classics. His experiences there formed a basis for the 1890 work The Emancipated.Swinnerton, p. 29. On 25 February 1891, Gissing married another working-class woman, Edith Alice Underwood. They settled in Exeter but moved to Brixton in June 1893 and Epsom in 1894. They had two children, Walter Leonard (1891–1916) and Alfred Charles Gissing (1896–1975), but the marriage was unsuccessful. Edith did not understand his work and Gissing insisted on keeping them socially isolated from his peers, which exacerbated the problems.
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He then seduces Ninlil and impregnates her with Nergal, the god of death. The same scenario repeats, only this time Enlil instead impersonates the "man of the river of the nether world, the man-devouring river"; once again, he seduces Ninlil and impregnates her with the god Ninazu. Finally, Enlil impersonates the "man of the boat"; once again, he seduces Ninlil and impregnates her with Enbilulu, the "inspector of the canals". The story of Enlil's courtship with Ninlil is primarily a genealogical myth invented to explain the origins of the moon-god Nanna, as well as the various gods of the Underworld, but it is also, to some extent, a coming-of-age story describing Enlil and Ninlil's emergence from adolescence into adulthood.
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In the earliest surviving version of the myth of the slaying of the Kur, Enki is the hero responsible for the Kur being slain. Unfortunately, this myth is highly fragmentary and what little that is known about it comes solely from the prologue at the beginning of the epic poem Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Nether World. In later versions of this myth, the hero is either Ninurta or Inanna.Kramer, Samuel Noah (1961) Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.: Revised Edition (University of Pennsylvania press) Based on what little has survived of the account, it seems that the legend begins with the Kur abducting the goddess Ereshkigal and dragging her down to the Netherworld.
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The siddhars are believed to have had both major and minor powers which are described in detail in various yogic and religious texts.Thirumandiram 668 They also are said to have the power of converting their mass to energy and thereby traveling to different universes. # Anima (shrinking) -- Power of becoming the size of an atom and entering the smallest beings # Mahima (illimitability) -- Power of becoming mighty and co-extensive with the universe. The power of increasing one's size without limit # Laghima (lightness) -- Capacity to be quite light though big in size # Garima (weight) -- Capacity to weigh a lot, though seemingly being small in size # Prapti (fulfillment of desires) -- Capacity to enter all the worlds from Brahma Loga to the nether world.
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The main necropolis of Tarchuna, part of which can be visited today, is the Monterozzi necropolis with some 6,000 tombs, at least 200 of which include beautiful wall paintings, and many of which were tumulus tombs with chambers carved in the rock below. The painted scenes are of a quality virtually unrivalled elsewhere in the Etruscan world and give a valuable insight into the secretive world of the Etruscans which is rarely documented. They show banquets with dances and music, sporting events, occasional erotic and mythical scenes. In the late period underworld demons escorting the dead on their journey to the beyond including scenes in the nether world were depicted, and also processions of magistrates and other symbols of the rank of the eminent members of the families buried there.
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After this death, in his pockets were found five identical messages on the back of his calling cards to the representatives of China, Great Britain, the United States, France, and Germany in which he pleaded with those powers to recognize the true situation within Korea. He also left a final message directed towards the people of Korea (see below), in which he promised to help his fellow countrymen "from the nether world" if they would strengthen their collective will and spirit and exercise their learning in an all out effort to "restore our [Korean] freedom and independence."Michael Finch, Min Yǒng-hwan, A Political Biography (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2002), 175. Some officials, including Jo Byeongse, Hong Mansik, Yi Sangcheol, and even Min's rickshaw puller, committed suicide following Min's death.
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The power of increasing one's size without limit # Lagima (lightness) -- Capacity to be quite light though big in size # Garima (weight) -- Capacity to weigh heavy, though seemingly small size # Prapthi (fulfillment of desires) -- Capacity to enter all the worlds from Brahma Loga to the nether world. It is the power of attaining everything desired # Prakasysm (irresistible will) -- Power of disembodying and entering into other bodies (metempsychosis) and going to heaven and enjoying what everyone aspires for, simply from where he stays # Isithavam (supremacy) -- Have the creative power of god and control over the sun, the moon and the elements # Vasithavam (dominion over the elements) -- Power of control over kings and gods. The power of changing the course of nature and assuming any form These eight are the Great Siddhis (Ashtama siddhis), or Great Perfections.
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Class struggle between these two classes was now prevalent. With the emergence of capitalism, productive forces were now able to flourish, causing the industrial revolution in Europe. Despite this, however, the productive forces eventually reach a point where they can no longer expand, causing the same collapse that occurred at the end of feudalism: > Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and > of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of > production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to > control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. > [...] The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to > further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the > contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they > are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring > disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of > bourgeois property.
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The IBM 5280 System was intended to be a natural improvement over the IBM 3740 which was now more than 10 years old. However, the industry had spent much of the first five of those years producing the supporting environment for it, but were now at the crossroads where they had to decide if they were going to continue to use the super expensive, guaranteed-not-to-fail IBM 5280, or to move away from what Big Blue was promising them into the nether world of unknown software, incomplete, poorly thought out process changes and daily interruption of work flow due to system crashes of their -not-ready-for- business-but-cheaper-than-dirt- personal computer-based future. They made that decision mainly because it put them more in control of their "stuff" for a lot lower cash outlay - besides that, the kids coming up in the ranks were already whizzes at the pc, having been working with them since high school at least. Only a few had heard of Distributed Data, but that was what the personal computing world did to data - distributed it almost naturally.
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"Morley's calm yet moving narrative is a fine tribute to a man who endured six years in prison because he lived at a time and place when borders — and his citizenship — changed at the instigation of governments," wrote Elisabeth Anderson in The Times.'False Arrest', Elisabeth Anderson, The Times (December 14, 1986) "In the Labyrinth is marked by great elegance of style”, Carolyn See commented in The Los Angeles Times Book Review: “It continues traditions set by Kafka’s In the Penal Colony and Cummings’ The Enormous Room.”‘Ripping the Safety Net of Middle-Europe Nationality’, Carolyn See, The Los Angeles Times Book Review (July 14, 1986) “The cumulative effect of reading John David Morley’s In The Labyrinth is heartbreak,” declared Gillian Greenwood in The Times: “The dispassionate, observant tone of the book gives great power to its sad and appalling testimony.”‘Books: The Geography of Bleak New Worlds’, Gillian Greenwood, The Times (October 16, 1986) "In the Labyrinth is stark and melancholy, the spectrum deliberately limited to wintry monotone," noted Robert Taylor in The Boston Globe', adding that the narrative "combines elements of Kafka nightmare and the nether world of Dostoevsky's House of the Dead.
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Guide for the Perplexed manuscript from Yemen, dated 13–14th century The book begins with the exposition of the physical structure of the universe, as seen by Maimonides. The world-view asserted in the work is essentially Aristotelian, with a spherical earth in the centre, surrounded by concentric Heavenly Spheres. While Aristotle's view with respect to the eternity of the universe is rejected, Maimonides extensively borrows his proofs of the existence of God and his concepts such as the Prime Mover: “But as Maimonides recognizes the authority of Aristotle in all matters concerning the sublunary world, he proceeds to show that the Biblical account of the creation of the nether world is in perfect accord with Aristotelian views. Explaining its language as allegorical and the terms employed as homonyms, he summarizes the first chapter of Genesis thus: God created the universe by producing on the first day the reshit (Intelligence) from which the spheres derived their existence and motion and thus became the source of the existence of the entire universe.” A novel point is that Maimonides connects natural forces and heavenly spheres with the concept of an angel: these are seen as the same thing.
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Lilienblum also wrote: Ḳehal Refa'im, a poem describing the different types of Russian Jewry of the time, as they appear in the nether world (Odessa, 1870); Olam ha-Tohu, on some phases of Hebrew literature (in Ha-Shaḥar, 1873); Biḳḳoret Kol Shire Gordon, on J. L. Gordon as a poet (in Meliẓ Eḥad Mini Elef, St. Petersburg, 1884); Zerubbabel, historical drama in Yiddish (Odessa, 1888); "Derek la-'Abor Golim," a history of the Chovevei Zion movement up to the time of the ratification by the Russian government of the committee for the colonization of Palestine (Warsaw, 1899); Derek Teshubah, an addition to Ḥaṭṭot Ne'urim, describing the transition of the author from the negative period of the Haskalah to the positive period of national reawakening; Pyat Momentov Zhizhni Moiseya (in Russian; Warsaw, 1900), a psychological analysis of some important moments in the life of Moses. Lilienblum also edited Kawweret, a collection of articles in Hebrew (Odessa, 1890), and the Luaḥ Aḥiasaf, 1901. He was the author of a number of other articles, of which the most important is O Neobkhodimosti Reform v Yevreiskoi Religii (in Voskhod, 1882-83).
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Although the modern term "creative destruction" is not used explicitly by Marx, it is largely derived from his analyses, particularly in the work of Werner Sombart (whom Engels described as the only German professor who understood Marx's Capital), and of Joseph Schumpeter, who discussed at length the origin of the idea in Marx's work (see below). In The Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described the crisis tendencies of capitalism in terms of "the enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces": > Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and > of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of > production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to > control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. > ... It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical > return put the existence of the whole of bourgeois society on trial, each > time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part not only of existing > production, but also of previously created productive forces, are > periodically destroyed.
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