There's a song by Bone Thugs n Harmony called "Tha Crossroads", where they'll meet up with each other after they pass away. Is this a place mentioned in the Bible? There's also the fact that in the show Supernatural, some people summon what is known as a "crossroads demon" to grant them any wish in exchange for the person's soul in ten years. They summon the demon by putting their valuables in a box and burying it in the ground by a road or path intersecting with train tracks.
The closest I can come up with in the Bible (and it's not very close) for pairing up crossroads and the afterlife is in the Parable of the Great Banquet (Matthew 22:1-14 and Luke 14:15-24). Heaven is compared to a wedding banquet prepared by a king, and the original invitees (the Jews to Heaven, by the analogy) refuse to come. "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.'" (inviting the Gentiles to Heaven) A bunch of people come, but the king throws out the guy who's not wearing wedding clothes, and the parable ends with "For many are called, but few are chosen."
However, the song's imagery is probably rooted in non-Christian mythology. Odin was honored at crossroads, for example. Crossroads are locations where two places touch: literally the road from A to B and the road from C to D touch at the crossroads, and symbolically it's a place between this world and a world of supernatural things. Prior to 1823, all suicides (and some other categories of the dead) were required to be buried at crossroads in Britain, stemming from a variety of religious (crossroads are cross-shaped), superstitious (vampires), and historical (Teutonic altars) reasons. Papa Legba is the loa of crossroads in Vodou lore, and he's the intermediary between humanity and the spirit world.
Summoning demons for Faustian bargains at a crossroads seems to be more of a creation of the Blues than anything else, although there may be some hoodoo influence there as well. (African American Hoodoo is not the same thing as West African Vodun, Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, Cuban Vodu, or Dominican Vudu)
However, the song's imagery is probably rooted in non-Christian mythology. Odin was honored at crossroads, for example. Crossroads are locations where two places touch: literally the road from A to B and the road from C to D touch at the crossroads, and symbolically it's a place between this world and a world of supernatural things. Prior to 1823, all suicides (and some other categories of the dead) were required to be buried at crossroads in Britain, stemming from a variety of religious (crossroads are cross-shaped), superstitious (vampires), and historical (Teutonic altars) reasons. Papa Legba is the loa of crossroads in Vodou lore, and he's the intermediary between humanity and the spirit world.
Summoning demons for Faustian bargains at a crossroads seems to be more of a creation of the Blues than anything else, although there may be some hoodoo influence there as well. (African American Hoodoo is not the same thing as West African Vodun, Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, Cuban Vodu, or Dominican Vudu)
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