Stars played an important role in ancient Egyptian belief. In the Pyramid Texts the soul of the deceased pharaoh ascends to the #celestial realm of the imperishable circumpolar stars.
"He places thee at the head of the spirits, the imperishable stars."
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Another informative piece by Joshua J. Mark (one of my sources for "Women in the Ancient World"). Also, ever wonder where #Christianity got some of their ideas about the #afterlife? Pretty much, they took what they wanted (or what was popular), then banned the Rites.
"The #RitesOfEleusis, or the Eleusinian Mysteries, were the secret rituals of the mystery school of #Eleusis and were observed regularly from c. 1600 BCE - 392 CE. Exactly what this mystic ritual was no one knows; but why the ancient Greeks participated in it can be understood by the testimonials of the initiated.
"The Eleusinian Mysteries, held each year at Eleusis, Greece, fourteen miles northwest of Athens, were so important to the Greeks that, until the arrival of the Romans, The Sacred Way (the road from Athens to Eleusis) was the only road, not a goat path, in all of central Greece. The mysteries celebrated the story of Demeter and #Persephone but, as the initiated were sworn to secrecy on pain of death as to the details of the ritual, we do not know what form these rituals took. We do know, though, that those who participated in the mysteries were forever changed for the better and that they no longer feared death.
"The rituals were based on a symbolic reading of the story of Demeter and Persephone and provided initiates with a vision of the afterlife so powerful that it changed the way they saw the world and their place in it. Participants were freed from a fear of death through the recognition that they were immortal souls temporarily in mortal bodies. In the same way that Persephone went down to the land of the dead and returned to that of the living each year, so would every human being die only to live again on another plane of existence or in another body."
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SEPULTURA's ANDREAS KISSER: 'I Don't Understand Why People Are So Afraid To Talk About Dying'
..Kisser, whose wife ...passed away... after a battle with colon cancer, was asked what the experience... taught him about life.
Wer darüber nachdenkt, Daten über sich selbst der Digital-Afterlife-Industrie zur Verfügung zu stellen, sollte sich über die damit verbundenen Risiken informieren.
Bei der Technikfolgenabschätzung fehlen da leider einige Aspekte. Was, wenn meine Daten schon vor meinem Ableben in die falschen Hände geraten? Dann habe ich Kriminellen einen voll gepackten Kompromatkoffer in die Hand gedrückt.
Meine digitale Nachbildung kann jederzeit für #Identitätsdiebstahl genutzt werden und für Straftaten missbraucht werden, für die ich dann verdächtigt werde.
Is there an afterlife or is this the only life we get? Most believe science says there is no afterlife. But this view, while common, is wrong.
It required thousands of years of careful study of the natural world. Today, modern science offers answers to this age-old mystery.
Contrary to popular wisdom, the existence of an afterlife is an inescapable conclusion of many of today’s scientific theories.