RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ammit, Heart, Ushabti
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Use book reviews for sources (before choosing an actual source) Hell: a divinely or cosmically sanctioned place of torment either temporary or eternal. Death in the early civilizations: last week: hell has critical features to it. It only constitutes a hell if there is some kind of punishment and torment inflicted. And when it comes to them, they go to this other place and this other place is described as dark, dusty, damp, grim place but you don"t have any descriptions about it having horrible punishments going on. There is no singing, it"s a grim place. Many of these early observations of the live your life to the fullest now because in the below, it is not going o be a pleasant place. Even the most mighty of kings and wealthy people ask for worldly things from god because they know they are going to go to the underworld.
