weighing of souls

The weighing of souls is a notion rooted in antiquity.

There is also a small figure from a 'Weighing of souls' and the remains of some post-Reformation texts.

For Christians, among the terrors that await at the Last Judgment is the weighing of souls.

Burlison and Grylls heavily restored the paintings, re-drawing the weighing of souls at twice its original size.

Yes, it is time to prepare ourselves for the weighing of souls, for the great sifting of the worthy from the unworthy.

In Egyptian mythology Maat dealt with the weighing of souls that took place in the underworld.

They included an Adoration of the Magi and a weighing of souls, both of which were considered to have been painted late in the 14th century.

The more dramatic is "Psychostasy (The Weighing of Souls)," a theme from the Trojan War.

The psychostasia, Greek 'weighing of souls', is a method of divine determination of fate, which persists from the Iliad through to christian theology.

On the walls of the adjacent cathedral, the unusual carved panels depict the Weighing of Souls and the Adoration of the Magi among other biblical subjects.

These are much faded but interesting for their iconography: they are the Tree of Deadly Sins, the Warning to Sabbath-breakers and the Weighing of Souls.

After her role in creation and continuously preventing the universe from returning to chaos, her primary role in Egyptian mythology dealt with the weighing of souls that took place in the underworld, Duat.

The composition has been interpreted as a psychostasia (weighing of souls), and the figures have variously been identified as Eros, Persephone and Aphrodite, or Eros, Venus and Juno.

First built in around 1180, it was restored in the 1960s and the walls still bear traces of lime-and-chalk paintings that depict the weighing of souls by Michael the Archangel with the devil trying to weigh down the scales.

"Insolan, my child-I mean, your Ma..." The gritty voice hesitated, and then began a knell about the weighing of souls, and how much the Good had exceded the Evil in Father and all the predictable platitudes.

The fact that the butterfly is engraved on circular gold weights from a tomb at Mycenae may indicate that, at least in the Mycenean period, there was a belief in the weighing of souls to determine their fate after death.

The interior has a number of 14th- and 15th-century wall paintings including a Virgin and Child, an Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the weighing of souls, the torments of the damned and 15th-century paintings of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and a Doom.