{"id":725,"count":1,"description":"A soul\u00a0\u2013 in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions\u00a0\u2013 is the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing or object. Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach that humans have souls, and others teach that all living things and even inanimate objects (such as rivers) have souls. The latter belief is commonly called animism. Soul sometimes functions as a synonym for spirit, mind or self.\nThe Modern English word soul derived from Old English s\u00e1wol, s\u00e1wel, first attested to in the 8th century poem Beowulf v. 2820 and in the Vespasian Psalter 77.50, and is cognate with other Germanic and Baltic terms for the same idea, including Gothic saiwala, Old High German s\u00eaula, s\u00eala, Old Saxon s\u00eaola, Old Low Franconian s\u00eala, s\u00eela, Old Norse s\u00e1la as well as Lithuanian siela. Further etymology of the Germanic word is uncertain. A more recent suggestion connects it with a root for \"binding\", Germanic *sailian (OE s\u0113lian, OHG seilen), related to the notion of being \"bound\"...","link":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/?tag=soul","name":"Soul","slug":"soul","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&tags=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}