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catabasis
[kətab′əsis] pl. catabases
Etymology: Gk, kata, down, bainein, to go
the phase in which a disease declines. catabatic [kat′əbat′ik] , adj.
catabasis
the stage of decline of a disease.
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For one thing, Aeneas is a liminal figure in being connected with the world of the mortals and that of the gods, a characteristic which allows him to embark upon a katabasis, a journey to the Underworld.
Images of liminality in Book VI of The Aeneid by Saeedi, Pouneh / CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
30) that should be examined next, not in relation with Diamond's Dream, but with the three-chapter sequence devoted to Diamond's Hyperborean journey or, to give that near-death experience the name used by the Ancients, his Katabasis (interestingly, the term appears in Robert Falconer [213]).
"In my end is my beginning": the fin-negans motif in George ... by Persyn, Catherine / Mythlore
For yetter kangra norla" of the English katabasis ballad "King Orfeo.
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