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Burial In Different Cultures (
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Many times in myth, the living desired to speak with the departed.When Odysseus wishes to speak with the Nekyia in Book eleven, goats must besacrificed and their blood was recognized as inspiring the deceased tospeak. The Egyptians also were concerned with the ability of the deceasedto speak in t ....
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....r hand, Greco-Roman afterlife was arather dismal place. The dead Achilles summed everything up by saying toOdysseus, "Do not try to make light of death to me, I would sooner be boundto the soil in the hire of another man, a man without lot and without muchto live on, than rule over all the perished dead." Needless to say, theHomeric afterlife was no Candyland. Candyland or not, both cultures went to extremes in order toguarantee a successful voyage into the next world. The two ancientcivilizatio.... |
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