Word: deathlessness
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Actually, the pagan gods died, as gods, long before the collapse of the ancient world. Cicero's De Natura Deorum treats them as 1) historical personages. 2) cosmic symbols, and 3) allegories. Thus translated from the realm of blind faith to that of reason, they became deathless elements in the heritage of Western man. Yet in medieval times they led a shadowy life indeed. The church treated them as peasant superstitions (the Roman pagus was a country district), or turned them into demons. Satan, for example, inherited hooves and horns from the great god Pan. It remained...
...bullfight-for-fun fiesta in the southern French town of Vallauris, famed Painter Pablo Picasso, topped off by a matador's hat, cheered the festivities with his old friend, France's oddball Poet-Playwright Jean Cocteau. Because French tradition opposes bullfighters actually killing their beasts, Vallauris was deathless, but Spanish-born Aficionado Picasso seemed to enjoy the fray just as much as if the arena were awash with gore...
...behind the narrow bars of parental thou-shalt-nots. At novel's end, with Fatuncle's help, she has flown the coop to become a woman-her own woman. Author Hallinan has written a fine and pleasing novel, even if her prose is occasionally more breathless than deathless...
Jack Hesketh's words at Jimmy Alcock's funeral [TIME, Jan. 4]. They should be en grossed on deathless parchment, and a framed copy presented to every legislator and judge in the land...
Which has inspired me to these deathless lines, perhaps useful to you in the future...