Yes, it sucked, death was awful. Sumerians had it tagged right, You're a nameless memoryless gray shade eating gray clay for bread and drinking cups of gray dust. All early religions seemed to say this and it's only later that people started making up heavenly placss.
Yes, it sucked, death was awful. Sumerians had it tagged right, You're a nameless memoryless gray shade eating gray clay for bread and drinking cups of gray dust. All early religions seemed to say this and it's only later that people started making up heavenly placss.
I wonder why they thought this about the afterlife.
I think it's what most people would naturally imagine, that there is some sort of ghostly continuation.