The Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the gods, would take the dead soul of a person to the underworld ( sometimes called Hades or the House of Hades ).

In one such theory, put forward by Sir E. B. Tylor, early humans initially, through mere observation, recognized what might be called a soul, life-force, spirit, breath or animus within themselves ; that which was present in the body in life and absent in death.

While at Stein, Erasmus fell in love with a fellow canon, Servatius Rogerus, and wrote a series of passionate letters in which he called Rogerus " half my soul ".

The man who denies God is called Kafir ( concealer ) because he conceals by his disbelief what is inherent in his nature and embalmed in his own soul.

Any soul that has conquered its own inner enemies and achieved the state of supreme being is called a jina (" conqueror " or " victor ").

A soul is called a ' victor ' ( in Sanskrit / Pali language, Jina ) because one has achieved liberation by one's own efforts.

* Obàtálá ( Yoruba mythos ): Obàtálá, created by the supreme entity Olódùmarè, was given ownership of every being's head ( the seat of the soul ), created the land by causing a rooster to kick and scatter the earth, and founded the first Yoruba city, Ife ; he is also called the King of White Cloth, Orisha-Nla, or Olufon.

Many Muslims believe that, after death, a person's soul passes through a stage called barzakh, where it exists in the grave ( even if the person's body was destroyed, the soul will still rest in the earth near their place of death ).

By the early 1960s, the music industry category previously known as rhythm and blues was being called soul music, and similar music by white artists was labeled blue eyed soul.

In Indian religions, for example, the concept of salvation ( which is called moksha ) involves being free from an endless process of transmigration of the soul, a belief that is absent from Abrahamic soteriology.

The 2011 episode " The Doctor's Wife " the " soul " of the ship is transferred into the body of a humanoid female called Idris, and enabling the Doctor to have a conversation with his craft.

By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, Waits was playing in an R & B / soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City ( about which he would later sing on " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" from Small Change and " The Ghosts of Saturday Night ( After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House )" on The Heart of Saturday Night ).

This position is called traducianism in opposition to ' creationism ', or the idea that each soul is a fresh creation of God.

Her stage name derives from Mitch Ryder, a soul and rock singer her father happened to be listening to when her agent called and asked how she wanted to appear on the credits of her first film.

According to Ramaz, it is fit to be called Midrash haNe ' elam because " its topic is mostly the neshamah ( an upper level of soul ), the source of which is in Beri ' ah, which is the place of the upper Gan Eden ; and it is written in the Pardes that drash is in Beri ' ah ... and the revealed midrash is the secret of externality, and Midrash haNe ' elam is the secret of internality, which is the neshamah.

Catholic tradition says she rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven with both body and soul intact in what is called the Assumption of Mary, however others say her body was taken away lest it become an idol.

The Sirens might be called the Muses of the lower world, Walter Copland Perry observed: " Their song, though irresistibly sweet, was no less sad than sweet, and lapped both body and soul in a fatal lethargy, the forerunner of death and corruption.

They are listed as: The world was created by God ; God is one and incorporeal ; belief in revelation ( including the divine origin of tradition ); man is called to righteousness and endowed with all necessary qualities of mind and soul to avoid sin ; belief in reward and punishment ; the soul is created pure ; after death it leaves the body ; belief in resurrection ; Messianic expectation, retribution, and final judgment.

Turner eventually received praise in a seminal Atlantic Monthly article in 1861 by Thomas Higginson, who called him a man " who knew no book but the Bible, and that by heart -- who devoted himself soul and body to the cause of his race ".

" Writing for ABC Australia, Megan Spencer called the movie, " menacing, dreamy, exciting " and noted that " it could take you to a deeply emotional place lying dormant in your soul.

: 1. the doctrine of the soul, in which Gersonides defends the theory of impersonal reason as mediating between God and man, and explains the formation of the higher reason ( or acquired intellect, as it was called ) in humanity — his view being thoroughly realist and resembling that of Avicebron ;

Hindus believe that the Jiva or Atman ( soul ) is intrinsically pure.

Hindus believe the self or soul ( Atman ( Hinduism ) | atman ) repeatedly takes on a physical body.

Within Hindu philosophy, there is a solid and ancient tradition of philosophical speculation on the nature of the universe, of God ( termed " Brahman " in some schools of Hindu thought ) and of the Atman ( soul ).

Also known as Brahman ( the infinite manifestation the universe-not to be confused with Atman, the manifestation of god within a body ; somewhat comparable to a soul ), all others are considered his aspects, or avatars ,-Vishnu, the protector or preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer, are the main examples of this, due to them being more popular aspects of the Ultimate Reality.

Whereas Advaita preaches that Atman and Brahman are one and the same, which is not evident to the atman till it comes out of a so-called illusion, Madhvacharya puts forth that Brahman ( Vishnu / God ) and Atman ( soul ) are eternally different, with God always the Superior one.

In the Hindu tradition, the saying Tat Tvam Asi ; " That Art Thou ", refers to the principal unity between the uncreated element in the human soul ( Atman ) and the transcendent reality itself ( Brahman ); one without a second (" Thou Art ").

Orthodoxy teaches that, " after the soul leaves the body, it journeys to the abode of the dead ( Hades ).

The transformation may be temporary or permanent ; the were-animal may be the man himself metamorphosed ; may be his double whose activity leaves the real man to all appearance unchanged ; may be his soul, which goes forth seeking whom it may devour, leaving its body in a state of trance ; or it may be no more than the messenger of the human being, a real animal or a familiar spirit, whose intimate connection with its owner is shown by the fact that any injury to it is believed, by a phenomenon known as repercussion, to cause a corresponding injury to the human being.

Petrarch's will ( dated April 4, 1370 ) leaves 50 florins to Boccaccio " to buy a warm winter dressing gown "; various legacies ( a horse, a silver cup, a lute, a Madonna ) to his brother and his friends ; his house in Vaucluse to its caretaker ; for his soul, and for the poor ; and the bulk of his estate to his son-in-law, Francescuolo da Brossano, who is to give half of it to " the person to whom, as he knows, I wish it to go "; presumably his daughter, Francesca, Brossano's wife.

The transformation may be temporary or permanent ; the were-animal may be the man himself metamorphosed ; may be his double whose activity leaves the real man to all appearance unchanged ; may be his soul, which goes forth seeking whom it may devour, leaving its body in a state of trance ; or it may be no more than the messenger of the human being, a real animal or a familiar spirit, whose intimate connection with its owner is shown by the fact that any injury to it is believed, by a phenomenon known as repercussion, to cause a corresponding injury to the human being.

It was determined by the Recording Academy that the word " gospel " in the gospel genre field tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and leaves out the current contemporary Christian music ( CCM ).

Buffy is forced to kill Angel to save the world, despite Willow's restoring his soul, and subsequently leaves Sunnydale.

It is in Jewish Christian theology that the angel of peace occurs, who is charged with the task of receiving the soul as it leaves the body and leading it to Paradise.

The Aikya Sthala is the culmination where the soul leaves the physical body and merges with the Supreme.

When Thanos mortally wounds Warlock and leaves him for dead, Warlock's soul is taken by his earlier self.

A baraita offers, as justification for the ritual of hand-washing after waking, the belief that a spirit of impurity rests upon each person during the night, and will not leave until the person's hands are washed, and the Zohar argues that body is open to demonic possession during sleep because the soul temporarily leaves the body during it ; the kabbalah argues that death awaits anyone who walks more than four yards from their bed without ablution.

* Bathing the Shiv Linga with water, milk and honey, and Wood apple or bel leaves added to it, representing purification of the soul ;

In Chapter 1 of 10th book of the Bhagavata Purana, Vasudeva, the father of Krishna, exhorts Kamsa to refrain from killing his wife, Devaki, the mother of Krishna, by stating that death is certain for those who are born and when the body returns to the five elements, the soul leaves the body and helplessly obtains another form in accordance with the laws of karma, citing passages from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV: 4: 3.

From this point of view, if the author of the Sahifat al-kamila was not Imam Zayn al -' Abidin, he-or they-would in any case have to have been a spiritual authority of equal rank, so the whole exercise leaves us where we started: with a text which expresses the highest aspirations of the Muslim soul.

Islam seeks to eradicate these impulses and leaves man with the soul and body combined to develop along beneficent lines to achieve the high purpose of human life.

At death, the inner soul leaves the body and goes to the Katibak, the world of the dead in the center of the earth.

There she leaves a message for Miranda Sharifi, as have thousands of supplicants before her, pouring out her heart and soul, her views on self, her views on pain and its necessity as proof of life, her views on the red syringes — And, at the news of these syringes, Miranda Sharifi opens a comlink.

Dr. Peter Hobson invents a machine that detects a brain pattern that leaves the body after death, a pattern many believe is a soul.

And the horror it carries to you is not just the smell, in your own sweat, of a half-forgotten swamp-world going back deep in both of you, but that for him, as you meet here face to face in the sun, you and all you stand for have not yet appeared over the horizon of the world, so that after a moment all the wealth of it goes dim in you, then is canceled altogether, and you meet at last in a terrifying equality that strips the last rags from your soul and leaves you so far out on the edge of yourself that your fear now is that you may never go back.

An accident during the ritual when The Puppet Master is dealing with the Devil about King's soul, leaves King Diamond's soul trapped within his permanently aware eyes.

He leaves aside the first ( of historic interest ), and the fourth ( due to the definitions of nirvana ), so that as exemplars of mystical experience he presents: ( a ) the Upanishadic " I am this All " which can be subdivided into ( i ) a theistic interpretaion or ( ii ) a monistic ; ( b ) the Yogic " unity " outside space and time, either ( i ) of the eternal monad of the mystic's own individual soul per the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali or ( ii ) of Brahman, the ground of the universe, per the advaita Vedanta of Sankara ; and, ( c ) the bhakti mysticism of love, per the commentary on the Bhagavad Gita by Ramanuja.

Jason Lytle described the song as " that age-old story, repeated many times in country music, of the wayward soul who leaves a small town with hopes and dreams of the unknown and winds up full of regret in some horrible little apartment in an unfriendly city ".