Ancient burials and ancestor worship are evidence that the dead were experienced as still present and able to speak, advise, or demand accommodation.
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...perspective they were still alive okay the burial of the important dead as if they still lived is common to almost all these ancient..."
"propped up on stones whose voices were hallucinated by the living were the first gods okay does that make sense to you we lived..."
"they could help you access the dead in the spirit world and and and draw wisdom and inspiration from them this is a book..."
"...earthly earthly eyes which once the body stripped of soul lies dead can't see i ask so that your feet might find more force..."
"the sea parted were dead before the jordan saw those who had inherited its lands and those who did not suffer trials until the..."
"...who has led me through the deep night of the truly dead with this true flesh that follows after him. His help has drawn..."
"...I was alive, the shades, they seemed to be things twice dead, through amazement from the hollows of their eyes. And I, continuing my..."
"...there i mean i i hate to just just beat a dead horse but like what if rebelling would just mean instant death and..."
"...many of them are alive and how many of them are dead and how much of that is like why don't you know about..."
"...God has been satisfied, I bear this burden here among the dead, because I did not bear this load among the living. My face..."
"...stone effigies of what the buried were before, so that the dead may be remembered. And the there, when memory, inciting only the pious,..."
"...as they assailed their father in the temple, then left him dead behind them as they fled. It showed the slaughter and the devastation..."
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