An Irish precursor of Dante : $b a study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text
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Patrick’s Purgatory, St., 120, 225, 234 _sqq._;
closed, 237;
doubtful origin, 236;
popularity of legend, 234, 237;
influence on European literature, 237;
Dante parallels, 235, 238.
Paul, St., Vision of, 29, 99;
Revelation of, 106, 181;
mediæval vision of, 202 _n._, 230 _sqq._;
authority for Purgatory, 192 _n._;
guide to the Otherworld, 182 _n._
Pavia, University founded by Dungal, 6 _n._
Perceval (Peredur) romances, parallels to Irish legends, 131, 150, 154,
156, 184 _n._
Persian eschatology, see ‘Avesta.’
Peter, St., Vision of, 28, 181;
on purification of the world by fire, 99;
Apocalypse of, 105;
authority for Purgatory, 192;
guide to the Otherworld, 182 _n._
Peter, Spanish monk, Vision of, 111.
Petrus Hibernicus, 6 _n._
Philip, Roman Emperor, 45, 46 _n._
Philo Judæus, 76 _sqq._
Phœnix legend, 85, 154-5, 189.
Pillar on enchanted island, 151, 160, 210.
Pindar on Elysium, 50 _n._;
cited, 121 _n._
Plato and the Otherworld legend, 56;
Vision of Er, 56 _sqq._, 111;
eschatology of, 57-8;
on the mysteries, 58;
rebirth, 57-8.
Plutarch, Vision of Thespesios, 60 _sqq._, 111, 118 _n._, 233 _n._;
eschatology of, 61 _sqq._;
the mysteries, 108;
Tartarus, 109;
early Neo-Platonist, 77;
_On Isis and Osiris_, 88.
Porter of Hades, 35, 69, 84, 193.
Promise, sacredness of, in Ireland, 140.
Psychopompos, see ‘Guide to Otherworld.’
Ptolemy I., 88;
Philadelphia, _ib._;
Euergetes, _ib._
Pûitika sea, 72, 85, 184.
Pundgel, Australian divine bird, 73 _n._
Punishments in Otherworld, see ‘Hell,’ ‘Tartarus’;
Purgatorial, see ‘Purgatory’;
temporary, 35, 39, 40, 41, 49, 201-2;
classified, 40 _sqq._, 105, 171, 174, 199 _sqq._, 231;
respited periodically, 43, 160, 161, 232.
Purgatory: idea in Plato, 57;
in Plutarch, 61-4;
theories of the Rabbis, 90, 193-4;
in _Book of Enoch_, 194;
development in the early Church, 192-4;
in the _Fis Adamnáin_, 36, 178-9, 193-4;
in Irish legends, 160, 215 _sqq._, 225, 227, 233, 235;
in the _Vision of Alberic_, 239;
St. Patrick’s, see ‘Patrick’s Purgatory, St.’
Pythagoras and the mysteries, 52-3.
Rabbis, see ‘Jews.’
Ragozin, M. de, _Chaldæa_, cited, 69 _n._;
_Media_ cited, 71 _n._
Ramsay, Sir W. M., on the Greek mysteries, 55-6.
Raphoe, Mórdáil at, 18.
Rebirth doctrine, in Plato, 54, 57-8;
Plutarch, 62, 64;
Virgil, 65;
rejected by the Persians, 80;
Chaldæans, _ib._;
Egyptians, 93;
Jews, 92-3.
Reeves, Bishop, ed. Adamnán’s _Life of St. Columba_, 4 _n._;
cited, 7 _n._, 11.
Renouf, M. Le Page, on the Egyptian theory of the future life,
89 _n._, 93.
Respite, periodical, of the damned, 43, 160, 161, 232.
Return myth of departed heroes, 163.
Revelation, Book of, 85, 98 _n._, 99, 100 _n._, 163 _n._, 183, 184,
190 _n._, 195, 198, 205.