TERRESTRIAL SPACES AND CELESTIAL SYMBOLISM IN CEMETERIES: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF SPACES OF THE DECEASED

The open terrestrial swathes are by far the most collaborative of spaces shared human beings as they partake spatial and temporal experience. Their experiential reality is shaped sensory experience rooted in physical plane existence, palpably elusive metaphysical. Cemeteries however hold a unique position not simply seeking out on earth, but also symbolize metaphysical experience; transcending earthly death. This ambivalence celestial entrenched cemeteries going to be major concern this research article. article seeks deconstruct how which command sanctity can powerful signs contradiction ordinary bracketed with relatively less celebrated overtly mundane death Thanatos. will dwell into role select metaphors power emanating from treatment meted cemeteries. centre-periphery, life-death celestial-terrestrial binaries explored through epithets conferred upon rites death, phenomena afterlife different cultures. Keywords: Celestial, Terrestrial, Ambivalence, Juxtaposition, Binaries,