![]() ![]() The etymology of the word elysion is unclear. The terms Elysium and Haides were adjectives rather than nouns in the ancient Greek language, for example, pedion Elysion (the Elysian plain) and domos Haidou (the house of Haides). Roman writers such as Virgil combine the two Elysia-the realm of the virtuous dead and the realm of heroes being one and the same.Ī few late Greek writers attempted to rationalise the myth and identified the mythical White Island with one located near the mouth of the river Danube on the Black Sea and the Islands of the Blessed with certain islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Homer knows of no such realm and consigns all of his heroes to the common house of Haides, while Hesiod and many other poets speak only of a paradisal realm exclusively reserved for the heroes. It should be noted that Elysium was an evolving concept. When the concept of reincarnation gained currency in the classical world the two Elysian realms were sometimes tiered-a soul which had won passage three times to the netherworld Elysium would, with their fourth death, be transferred to the Islands of the Blessed to dwell with the heroes of myth for all eternity. The gods of the Mysteries associated with the passage to Elysium included Persephone, Iakkhos (Iacchus), Triptolemos, Hekate, Zagreus (the Orphic Dionysos), Melinoe (the Orphic Hekate) and Makaria. ![]() Its pleasant fields were promised as an afterlife to initiates of the Mysteries who had lived virtuous lives. The second Elysium was an underworld realm separated from the gloom of Haides by the river Lethe. It was an island paradise located in the far western stream of the river Okeanos (Oceanus) ruled by the Titan-King Kronos (Cronus) or Rhadamanthys, son of Zeus. ![]() The first of these-also known as the White Island or the Islands of the Blessed-was an afterlife realm reserved for the heroes of myth. The ancients often distinguished two Elysian realms-the islands of the Blessed and the Lethean fields of Haides. This is a film to watch many times as years goes by.ELYSION (Elysium) was the final resting place of the souls of heroes and virtuous men. I knew the other actors and their quality, so they gave what I expected of them. To me, Mick Jagger and his personality gave the extra edge to this film, and makes me rate it 5 instead og 4 stars. Scratch a few times, when all doors seemed closed to get a new job, and freelance solutions were the only risky challenge left. Specially those of us that had to start from I guess this film needs an audience with some life experience. In fact I wasn`t in the right mood to sit down with a film that evening, but this one sure What a personality! His charisma kept me glued to the chair from Mick Jagger was to me a very pleasant surprise. Since I never bought Stones Music, but got catched by Brian Auger and Miles Davis, I didn`t know much about Mick Jagger. The story seems to be well enough described, so I will just say why I give it 5 stars.Įvery actor seems to be just the right picked person for each role, and I have never seen James Coburn better. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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