katabasis

The web page linked to by katabasis that talks about the 'eight circuit model' above is very light.

The "Human Nature" paradox Katabasis 2008

Tonight, justbeast, grailquestion and I will be boarding the good ship Persephone and beginning our own katabasis-in-minature: downdowndown, down the Mississippi for 16 days, with stops at Our Lady of the Rivers, Mark Twain's hometown, and othe points of interest, but mainly zenning and communing with the river gods, whosoever and wheresoever they may be.

On y Va yuki_onna 2006

The story of this anabasis has been told in hundreds and thousands of fragments -- the anabasis that has had no katabasis -- the literal going up of

The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901

The word itself means "a march up" into the interior. -- katabasis (l. 28) means "a march down," -- in this case the retreat of the Greeks.

De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars Thomas De Quincey 1822

Julian -- or (as more disastrous than any of them, and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodus, authorized by an oracle venerated throughout many nations of Asia, an Exodus, therefore, in so far resembling the great Scriptural Exodus of the

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

Julian -- or (as more disastrous than any of them, and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodus, authorized by an oracle venerated throughout many nations of Asia, an Exodus, therefore, in so far resembling the great Scriptural Exodus of the

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

The katabasis is of course an immensely rich literary topos: Virgil had his hero visit the Underworld in Aeneid 6; there's the Ovidian version of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice; there's Dante; there's The Harrowing of Hell in the York mystery plays.

GotPoetry.com News 2010

Persephone's Garden and Ilium, detail Helen's katabasis to the underworld and an end-of-times battle between gods and humans respectively.

EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines Keith Staskiewicz 2010

Vows and marital rites are simple ceremony (i think) put upon a natural human inclination, to pair up, have and raise kids, suffer the hardships of lives with a reliable partner through the thick and thin, have something solid to fall back on in the inevitable moments of katabasis, and so on (like those crazy loons).

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

katabasis is right -- anything taken from you before you've seen it e.g. via PAYE is less easily missed.

Still think it's impossible to abolish Income Tax? Obnoxio The Clown 2008