In the Traditional Roman Religion this world, this time, this reality only matter: "hic et nunc" (here and now). Life is an unique occasion which for this reason has to been appreciated and fully lived.
There's no "another world", or an "another life" more than the one we currently have: there is no Paradise, no Hell. Dead are and remain "something else" and excluded from human dimension. The memory everyone of us trasmits to the others is the only thing that really matters.
According to the "mos maiorum" the memory of the action of lived and living people matters rather than the action of dead (which is likely to be a nonsense).
Any contact between the living and the dead dimensions is considered as a "funestus" act or an impure act. A family in grief is defined as a "Familia Funesta" or impure and contaminated: this familiy has to be turned into the condition of "Familia Pura"
The generic idea of the dead is identified with the imagine of the Manes through a term which in latin language is always plural.
There's no "another world", or an "another life" more than the one we currently have: there is no Paradise, no Hell. Dead are and remain "something else" and excluded from human dimension. The memory everyone of us trasmits to the others is the only thing that really matters.
According to the "mos maiorum" the memory of the action of lived and living people matters rather than the action of dead (which is likely to be a nonsense).
Any contact between the living and the dead dimensions is considered as a "funestus" act or an impure act. A family in grief is defined as a "Familia Funesta" or impure and contaminated: this familiy has to be turned into the condition of "Familia Pura"
The generic idea of the dead is identified with the imagine of the Manes through a term which in latin language is always plural.