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imdamoos · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 64 Location: New York

What happens to your characters after they die?

eldin raigmore · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:19 am Post subject:

They disagree on the answer.
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Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

There is a "Transition Ceremony," a celebration of their life, and they are then buried according to their wishes (cremated, buried, etc). The people pray and send good will/wishes to the deceased on their journey to the "Higher Horizon" (kind of a heaven) where they live out a much longer life with different problems and different things that are easy. The goal in that life is ascension, to 'ascend' to the literal realm of the spirits.

However, they also believe that the spirit world inter-exists with their own, but not on a visible plane of existence. They sometimes enter a state of altered consciousness (meditation, hallucinogenics, etc) to interact with the spiritual half of their plane of existence.

There are four levels of existence for them: two of which are in their reality. The first, the material world, is where they go about their lives. Second is the spiritual contact within the material world, where spirits visit. Third is the Higher Horizon (after death), and if you don't ascend from this plane of existence, you are reincarnated, in a fashion. If you do, you join the spirits and gods in the highest plane of existence. (I don't have a proper name for this one yet.)

langover94 · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 509 Location: USA

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

They do mourn the loss of the person, but there is a greater overall feeling of (don't know how to describe it - religious experience?).
It's closer to the Mexican Day of the Dead idea - they rejoice in the life the person had, are saddened that they have moved on, but at the same time, are happy for them that they have moved on. Kind of the idea some people here have: "They've gone to a better place, so let's not mourn them so."

BTW: I said earlier that it's in the second life that the goal is ascension. But some people on the 'first life' (haven't died yet, as far as they know) attempt ascension/contact with the other spiritual realms. Because the link is weakest on the first plane of existence, it is much harder and only possible through an altered state of consiousness. This is not limited to what we would call priests, shamans, chiefs, druids, etc.

imdamoos · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 64 Location: New York

But what happens to the person after they've moved on?

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

I'm not yet sure if this is literally what happens, but it's what they believe. Very Happy

I'm not sure if they'll be able to communicate, visit, or meet in any meaningful way, that kind of hinges on the whole literal/not thing Wink

imdamoos · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 64 Location: New York

Yeah, sorry, the question should probably be "What do the people believe happens after you move/pass on?".

Eyen · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

There is a ceremony for the people who worship Edžida, they are buried on the phase of the moon on which they were born. They also believe that once a person dies, they return to the Goddess and become an angel in order to help her aid in the lives of the mortals on earth.

Those who believe in Déod believe a person, once buried, goes into the earth and becomes part of the sun, controlling its light and sending it to the people below.
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