[Uther]

Originalmente inviato da bogomil

Qualcuno di voi gentili messeri sa darmi una definizione celtica dell'Oltremondo?
E' qualcosa che mi pare sia diversa dal paradiso e al contempo dal mondo dei morti. Dico bene?
Grazie

Non volendo assumermi alcuna responsabilità di quello che scrivo , preferisco stalciare la entry "Otherworld" dall'Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mithology:

Otherworld: A realm beyond the senses, usually a delightful place, not knowable to ordinary mortals without an invitation from a denizen; the Celtic Otherworld sometimes subsumes the Mediterranean concept of the underworld, i.e. the realm of the dead. Evidence from all areas of Celtic culture, from the ancient to all the vernaculars, demonstrates a belief in life materially surviving the expiration of the body. […] Classical commentators agree that druids taught the soul's immortality as well as its transmigration or metempsychosis. [...] Transmigration of souls gives way to the widespread motif of shape-shifting, and the happy afterlife becomes concurrent with mortal life. […] Many Irish and some Welsh visions of the Otherworld are Elysian, happy places overflowing with good food and drink, sport, beautiful and submissive women, enchanted music; special features are the pig slaughtered for dinner who appears restored ready to be eaten again the next morning, the cauldron of plenty, and the prominence of the colour red. Sickness, age, and decay are banished. Mortal visitors often find the Otherworld a source of wisdom and are impressed by the order and harmony there. The rulers of the Otherworld, not always named, appear wise, generous, and peace-loving, but they may be threatened by enemies and thus require the services of the mortal visitor, notably Cuchulainn and Pwyll. When mortal visitors sojourn in the Otherworld, they inevitably find that time there seems to pass in different duration, so that one year or even one day might be the same as 100 or 300 years in the lives of mortals. […]