Circular time consciousness

Japanese: 円環的時間意識 - えんかんてきじかんいしき
Circular time consciousness

…This change in the sense of time is fundamentally premised on a change in the view of life and death. Under the Germanic people's circular sense of time, humans enter the underworld after death, but the underworld is a world that can be communicated with the present world, and the dead do not disappear, but continue to live in a different world while maintaining their connection with the present world. However, under the Christian linear sense of time, once humans die, they go to purgatory, then to heaven or hell, and have to await the final judgment. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "cyclical time consciousness" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…このような時間意識の変化は基本的なところで死生観の変化を前提にしている。ゲルマン人の円環的時間意識のもとでは人間は死後冥界に入るが,冥界は現世と交流可能な世界であり,死者は消えてしまうのではなく,現世とのつながりを保ちつつ,別な世界で生きつづけるのである。しかしながらキリスト教の直線的な時間意識のもとでは,人間はひとたび死ねば煉獄へ,そして天国か地獄に行き,最後の審判をまつしかない。…

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