ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on new ethical spaces, by following the deeds of two heroic women from the literary and religious tradition – namely Sophocles' Antigone and Savitr? from the Mahabharata. What they have in common is that in their lives and/or deaths, and in their heroic deeds, they were in a close relationship to the deceased and to death. But also to life. In this, they were guardians of cosmic laws, with their sacred sexual and generational genealogies. Despite sometimes their tragic fate, they were and remained sacred guardians of basic cosmic laws, related to the living and deceased, heaven, earth and the underworld. In a Heideggerian language, they were, as it were, in a close vicinity of the elements of ancient cosmic order and cosmic laws; in their deeds they acted and spoke from out of a belonging to Being.
