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Selene fell in love with him at first sight, but Endymion is a mortal, would eventually die naturally, so Selene asked Zeus to grant Endymion eternal life, but the price was long sleep. Endymion still maintained a beautiful face and a gratifying smile after he fell asleep.
The oldest known fictional account of immortality is also the oldest surviving work of fiction: the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Sumerian tale from c. 2100 BCE. [1] [2] [3] Several Greek myths of antiquity depict mortals such as Ganymede and Tithonus being granted everlasting life by the gods.
Peter S. Rieth describes the story as "a rather sorrowful account of the resurrection of the dead and one angel's valiant attempt to stop the end of the world", and says that "Asimov litters his story with a large quantity of simple, day-to-day practical examples of how our wildest hope (resurrection and eternal life) may in practice become a waking nightmare."
In another example, Frodo carries a burden of evil on behalf of the whole world, just as Jesus carried his cross for the sins of mankind. [37] Frodo walks his "Via Dolorosa" to Mount Doom, just like Jesus who made his way to Golgotha. [38] As Frodo approaches the Cracks of Doom, the Ring becomes a crushing weight, just as the cross was for Jesus.
Similarly, life on Earth will go on as individuals come and go. At some level, we have to accept that’s just part of the scheme of things. I think this quest for immortality is a mirage.
Some examples are L. Frank Baum's fantasy novel John Dough and the Cherub, the science fiction series Doctor Who, Natalie Babbitt's 1975 novel Tuck Everlasting and its film adaptation, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, House of Anubis, The Puppet Master, the manga Fullmetal Alchemist and Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, the light novel ...
On a Pale Horse is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony, first published in 1983.It is the first of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. The book focuses on Zane, a photographer about to commit suicide who instead kills Death and must assume his office.
"The Immortal" has been described as a fictional exploration of Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence, in which infinite time has wiped out the identity of individuals. [1] The story can be compared to Homer 's Odyssey , in the sense that it is a tribute to the universal, mythical proportion of Homer's work. [ 2 ]