Nekyia
In ancient Greek cult-practice and literature, a nekyia (Ancient Greek: ἡ νέκυια) is a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future," i.e., necromancy. A nekyia is not necessarily the same thing as a katabasis. While they both afford the opportunity to converse with the dead, only a katabasis is the actual, physical journey to the underworld undertaken by several heroes in Greek and Roman myth.
In common parlance, however, the term "nekyia" is often used to subsume both types of event, so that by Late Antiquity for example "Olympiodorus ... claimed that three [Platonic] myths were classified as nekyia (an underworld story, as in Homer's Odyssey book 11)".
Questioning ghosts
A number of sites in Greece and Italy were dedicated wholly or in part to this practice. "The Underworld communicated with the earth by direct channels. These were caverns whose depths were unplumbed, like that of Heraclea Pontica." The most notable was the Necromanteion in the northwestern Greek town of Ephyra. Other oracles of the dead could be found at Taenaron and Avernus. Such specialized locations, however, were not the only places necromancy was performed. One could also perform the rite at a tomb, for example. Among the gods associated with the nekyia rite are Hades, his wife Persephone, Hecate, and Hermes (in his capacity as psychopompus – one who escorted souls to Hades).
Podcasts:
Nekyia
ALBUMS
- Alchemalady released: 2008
- Attuner of the Spheres released: 2002
Alchemalady
Released 2008- Prologue
- Chapter One: Opus Begins in the Land of the Dead
- Chapter Two: Initial Difficulty Requires the Differentiation
- Chapter Three: In the Forest of Growth and Possibility
- Chapter Four: Do Not Tempt the Gods to Sign
- Chapter Five: Far Into the Ineffable
- Chapter Six: She's the Mist Which Waters, Which Drowns
- Chapter Seven:... Not to Do Penance for the Universe
- Chapter Eight: Lost Opposite
- Chapter Nine: Secret Garden of Bells
- Chapter Ten: First of the Conjunctions
- Chapter Eleven: Self Restraining of the Haughtiness
- Chapter Twelve: The Wanderer Rests After Death
- Epilogue
Attuner of the Spheres
Released 2002- Wait for Access
- Into the Nekyia
- Inner Oceans
- The Morning Star Shines at the Crossroads
- Machine of the World
- The Quest
- Equilibrium
- ... And What Is Your Hell Paved With?
- Fernery in the Garden
- In Lateribus Aquilonis
- Procession
- Ecce Dies Ater
- The Disinheritance
- Purgatory Is a Serpent Domain
- Attuning
- B.B.Q. at the Styx
- ... Dementat Prius
- ... What Never Took Place
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No preguntes por qué
by: NekTus ojos dejan ver la verdad
sé que llueve desde que no está
sé también que no es fácil estar solo
hay tanto que olvidar si el amor
se arrepiente y dice que se va
sin querer, el corazón
mira hacia atrás
y no hay forma de aprender
a estar vivo y no caer
tropezar
y empezar otra vez
CORO
No preguntes por qué
ya no sois los de ayer
que es un juego sin reglas la pasión
que te puedo ayudar
que te ayude a curar
las heridas que deja el desamor
si tan solo hay dolor
ya habrá un tiempo mejor
De nada sirve ya remover
las cenizas que dejó el placer
no vendrá, no repitas más su nombre
que aunque te engañes el adios
es calle de una sola dirección
se marchó
y hay que dar
cuerda al corazón
CORO
Se que estas tocando fondo
pero asómate
la ciudad te está invitando
vamos muevete
Que otros labios de mujer
te darán mañana de beber
volverás
a sentir
otra vez
CORO