This echoes the way that the divine is often described across many different religions and time periods, making light a sort of cross-cultural communication tool in religious art.这与许多不同宗教和历史时期对神圣的描述相呼应，使光成为宗教艺术中一种跨文化的交流工具。Now, religious art is often sh...
according to theCarnegie Museum of Natural History. One reason this was done is that when cats were mummified, they could then be used as funerary goods. “This meant that the deceased person could inhabit the body of the mummified cat in the afterlife,” explains Monique Skidmore, a professo...
"Traditionally, religion was the primary resource, providing all these cultural scripts for what to do with the body and the grave and what is the afterlife," Laderman says. "This is religion's business." But traditional religions began losing their grip after the 1960s, which has created mo...
Believing money can solve anything — even in the afterlife — Chinese people are continuing the centuries-old practice of innovating new types of “ghost money” for the deceased.
What did Hatshepsut take to the afterlife? Which pharaohs had the most elaborate tombs? What was buried with the pharaohs? How did Tutankhamun become pharaoh? How did the Pharaoh control the nobles in the revolts? How is the chronology of Egyptian pharaohs calculated?
A common cultural belief -- one held during various periods throughout history -- is that a person who loses a limb during his or her time on Earth will remain limbless in the afterlife. To avoid this fate, amputated limbs were commonly saved for later burial along with the rest of the...
The transition to the afterlife without a transition to other planes of existence, which will allow you not to become part of the matter of the plans, will protect you from submission to a deity that you do not want to obey, and will also allow you to preserve the property that was in...
Enkidu’s soul tells Gilgamesh that the individuals that had more children during their life are being rewarded the best in the afterlife. Therefore, people should focus more on doing good and helping others, rather than criticizing or doing negative acts to others, these way individuals would be...
Describe Egyptian trade during the rule of Hatshepsut. How did pharaohs prepare for the afterlife? What tools did Middle Kingdom Egypt make? What was the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt? How did the Hittites influence Western Civilization?
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