
Ghosts, necromancy & the underworld in ancient Mesopotamia
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Ghosts, Death, Burial, After Life
Elliott: We take for granted bits and pieces when it comes to human beings. But also, thereis nolits. It might be only a bead, it might be a bit of something or other. If we have the after life at the point when homosapiens and their undertiles were first getting engaged in going on honeymoon together, this means that the conception that something survives after death goes back to the dawn of mankind. And so if you have death, burial, after life and going somewhere, the ghost is an intrinsic part of the whole. So i think we are hard wired to believe in ghosts. I really believe it. The most austere, clever
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