Thine is the Kingdom

[ feed | comment feed | cloud | sort:  alpha / order added ]

Register or login to add tags.

(close)

Perhaps postmundane?

I think the grey havens are pretty clearly a literary fiction that was never meant to be religious. And I'm not sure it's anything to do with a value judgment that Greek mythology is called mythology, and not religion. It is called mythology and not religion because 1) nobody claims that it's their religion anymore--there are no living adherents, and 2) if you called it "Greek religion," people would logically assume you're talking about the Greek Orthodox Church.

I don't think that dividing line between "religion" and "literary fiction," in the instance of the grey havens anyway, is nearly as thin as you're making it out to be. There's a pretty wide gulf there!

The only way there can be a flame war on Wordie is if someone purposely starts one. If you wanted to argue about religion, you could, but it doesn't seem like sionnach's comment was headed in that direction at all.

"I guess the grey havens are purely a literary fiction.". Uh, if you start differentiating between "literary fiction" and "religion", we're going to get into a flame war pretty quickly. Why do we study Greek mythology in literature class, and not religion or philosophy? It's a value judgment.

C_b, if you've never read Paradise Lost, put it on your list. I have a feeling you'd love it. It's been one of my favorites ever since I was a tiny English undergrad. :-)

the inferno, the city of Dis, the grey havens, Hy-Brassil? I'm not sure I understand the exact criterion for this list. I guess the grey havens are purely a literary fiction.

sweet nothingness

I didn't know that about Pandemonium! Heck, I didn't even think hell had a capital.

From Welsh mythology, the Isle of Annwn (akin to Tír na nÓg).

Good suggestions! I can't find reference to Arcadia as a spiritual place; it seems to refer to a physical location. And Shangri-La and Pandemonium are both fairly recent fictions.

Cool list, uselessness! Abaddon? Arcadia? Shangri-La? And I don't know whether Pandemonium (capped) counts--was coined by Milton as the "capital" of hell.

Don't forget the astral plane.