Jacob feels like dying in order to join his son in the
realm of the dead, Sheol.
What follows is a love triangle spanning the mundane world of the living and the spirited
realm of the dead, through which Burton explores themes of love, death and the nature of marriage.
Kafka ends up venturing into the deep forest, where he finds a way station of sorts between the land of the living and the
realm of the dead. Nakata's adventures, too, have a hand in determining whether the teenager can ever return from this sylvan limbo.
For example, some tribes of the Southwest associated it with Mictlantecutli, the Aztec mythological king of the
realm of the dead, while the Ojibwa of Minnesota believed that the owl transports the souls of the dead to the next world.
1 Peter sees Christ's saving power even in the
realm of the dead (3:19).
It is essentially a short descriptive catalogue of the collections of ancient Egyptian texts designed to help a dead person navigate the perils inherent in reaching and traversing the
realm of the dead. The "books" were initially arranged in chronological order, but the books found in New Kingdom royal tombs, Hornung's specialty, have been extracted and are treated more fully.
The different nationalities increased the impact of the words, particularly towards the end when English tenor John Mark Ainsley sings the part of a soldier who steps into the
realm of the dead. There he is confronted by the ghost of the man he killed, sung by German baritone Dietrich Henschel.
It is indeed the
realm of the dead into which the writer has entered.
Strange, also, how they take in their surroundings without surprise: they seem to be immediately aware that they are in a hospital bed and not in the
realm of the dead. Some go first to the sink to brush their teeth.
It is possible to speculate that the Patriarchal concern with burial in the family plot at Machpelah may represent a desire to return to an ancestral
realm of the dead. However, nowhere in the Hebrew Bible do we find a fully-articulated philosophy of individual postmortem survival.