mercedo's Journal: Jenseits

This is a German word for 'beyond' - in other words, 'another world'. Around this time in a year -autumnal and vernal equinox, two times in a year we call them Jenseits, we go to cemetry with a bunch of chrysanthemum to talk to the dead. Then I thought about why we call this time Jenseits. Because the length of day and night is the same, ancient people must have thought this fact leads them to the world of the dead smoothly. From the living to the dead, from this world to another they must have thought that they need a parallel of two different worlds.

Minor nitpick

[Ethelred Unraed]

It's actually "Jenseits" with an s, not a z. It also literally means "beyond" or "other side", and indeed in English it's acceptable to use the term "the beyond" in the same sense as "Jenseits" is used in German.

Cheers,

Ethelred

Re:Minor nitpick

[mercedo]

Thank you very much, I will mend it later.

I learned the term first of course in Jenseits von Gut und Boese by Nietzsche, later I found the small writtings by Freud called Jenseits von Lustprinzip. I guess the term Jenseits has been so used in German soil. Indeed it's philosophical rather than practical. When I looked it up the term -Jenseits, I was able to find the meaning of outside, that world, etc. But as to the meaning of beyond, I was unable to find the noun which refers to the underworld, gehenna, bes