katabasis, n.Definitions

Katabasis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the Nekyia's journey to Hades and leave-taking from the upper world, and it usually begins a series of images from the unconscious.

Katabasis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no aimless fall into the abyss but a descent into the cave of initiation, whose object is to restore the whole man by awakening the memories in the blood.

Katabasis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the descent to the underworld with which the work began, as Dante knew it, except that the adept's soul was not merely impressed but radically changed.