
Hells, heavens and afterworlds: a traveller’s guide
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How Far Back Are We Talking?
How far back in history can we see texts and images of of some sort of after life? How far back are we talking? Well, i mean, it's really interesting is when you read all the the up to date scholarship on on prehistoric art. And with some cave paintings, you start to realize that actually the constellations are represented in very simplistic patterns next to perhaps early am diagrams. Just disappears into pre history. We trace it back to ancient egypt and and further. It just emerges out of this primeval fog. A and so really, when you're looking for it, especially when you're applying em you know, your own specific interpretations,.
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