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The Afterlife

Nearly every religion in the world examines some belief in life after death. Some are similar; many are different. Even science has attempted to answer the question of what happens to us after we die.

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How well did Enkidu's description of his dream help you visualize the Sumerian afterlife?

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Enkidu's description of his dream provides vivid imagery, allowing us to visualize the Sumerian afterlife as a dark realm where people wear feathers like birds, eat dust, and exist in eternal night. This description helps to paint a bleak and eerie picture of the afterlife according to Sumerian beliefs.

Do Buddhist believe in afterlife?

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Not exactly as you might think of rebirth. Buddhist do not believe in a complete never changing soul of a person that gets reborn (transmigration) into a new body. Instead we believe that our current consciousness is an aggregation of our past actions and consciousness and other factors. When we die the consciousness that arises in a new person is neither identical nor entirely different from that the previous one but the two form a continuum or stream.

Think of it this way. Imagine all the consciousness of the world is an ocean. The ocean moves around due to different actions and forms waves. Those waves are like people. They arise, stay for a while and then rejoin the ocean, only to arise somewhere else in a slightly different manner. That's how we view rebirth.

How long did it take in ancient Egypt to get to the afterlife?

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Your question is not put in a fully understandable way. There are therfore two possible answers to your question. One is it took from the time they were able to understand till the time they died. The other possible answer is that it takes but a very short time from the time the spirit leaves the body till it reaches the spirit world. It is certain that you will be escorted by someone you know and has died. They or even these persons will escort you to your proper place in the spirit world.

Who were the three main gods of the Egyptian afterlife?

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The three main Gods of Ancient Egypt were Osiris, Isis and Horus.

What is Egyptian afterlife?

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It was the ancient egyptain belief that when you die you enter the afterlife. The afterlife was their version of heaven, their idea of life after death. They believed that though their life would end as they knew it, they would have very similar experiences in the afterlife. These experiences would be perfection of the projected thing in this life.

Does the ghost cause hamlet to dwell morbidly on the afterlife?

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William Shakespeare did not write novels. Hamlet is not a novel. It's a play. They are very very different. Novels are to be read. Plays are to be watched.

Hamlet is considered one of the greatest works of literature because it touches on a great many themes. A few of the major ones are "What is the point of life?", "Is revenge justified?", "What is sanity?", "How should we deal with death?", "How should children deal with parents who go wrong?" etc. etc.

I recommend you immediately watch a movie of the play or, better yet, buy a ticket to see it played live at a theatre.

Did sumerians believe in afterlife for the rulers or priests?

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they believed they should be eating by a pack of rabid squirrels

What were the Egyptians beliefs on the afterlife?

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they believed in after lie and it will look like the land on which every single spirit will be happy and have evrything no need to work there and they also believed like we do now those days that if u are good person u will go on heven but if u r a bad person u will go on hell

Did people believe the afterlife was good?

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Yes. They created the afterlife, and that was theri religion.
People did think that their second life was good,the Egyptians give us what they thought by putting the favorite things in the pyramids.

Why did ancient Egyptians bring food to the afterlife?

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the ancient Egyptians brought food to the afterlife because they believed that there was a second life after you died and they wouldn't want you to go to the afterlife hungry and nothing to eat.

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Why did the Egyptians bring weapons to the afterlife?

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Asked by Madbug1998

They did this so the Pharaoh could protect him self from the dangers in the afterlife.

How was egyptians attitude toward the afterlife?

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The question could be read in two different ways:

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul would go to Anubis who would weigh the soul against the Feather of Truth. If the soul was truthful, it would proceed to the afterlife and paradise. If the soul was wicked, it would go to the Realm of Seth.

Modern Egypt

Today, most Egyptians are Muslims and believe in the Muslim afterlife. A minority of Egyptians are Christian and believe in the Christian afterlife. To read about these afterlives, please read the Related Question below.

What was the afterlife like according to Ancient Egyptians?

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Their concept of an afterlife was linked with a desire to stay in touch with the physical world. They believed that their bodies would be used throughout eternity and would be reinvigorated with life.

What did Egyptians do in the afterlife?

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anyone could have life after death
The ancient Egyptians believed that you would have to have a good concience,and that your heart had to weigh the same weight as a feather.It could not be too heavy or too light.

What is the name of the small statues of an Egyptian king that would act as servants to do the king's hard work in his afterlife?

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These were called shabtis. Double click on shabtis to find out some more information.

How do we know that the afterlife was so important to the ancient Egyptians?

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We know that the Afterlife was important to ancient Egyptians because they spent so much time and money building pyramids and preserving bodies. They left behind copies of their Book of the Dead.

Who is the Greek god of the afterlife?

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the god of the under world is called Hades. he is greek... and he is the brother of Zeus and poseidon. i hope that will do

Hades is the god of the underworld, bit he does also have a wife named Persephone.

Do people have an afterlife?

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There is absolutely no proof of an existence after death. However there are many fairytales about a brilliant/sparkling kingdom which is only accessible to elite members of a supremacist group. In this fairytale the rewards are reserved for the chosen (nice ones) and the condemned (naughty ones) are hurled into a blazing volcanic pit of lava.

There are numerous religious beliefs that are certified as authentic by the relevant leaders who submit theological machinations as validation. Most religious theologies profess that there is an existence after death and that all of God's creation are afforded an equal space based upon their positive activities in life.

It is believed that the soul continues to exist after death because it existed before life but since it consists of pure conscious energy it cannot experience physical sensations without a body. It should be obvious that a soul therefore cannot experience mythological concoctions like heaven and hell.

The only 'proof' that could be obtained would be if someone died and came back to tell us all about it.

Christians believe that Jesus Christ, having been crucified, dead and buried, did come alive again in a glorified body to prove to us that death is not the end but a glorious beginning. Whilst some will not accept this, there is a huge wealth of hard evidence that this actually did happen. No one in the last 2000 years has made a convincing argument that this event could not have happened, but many who have tried have ended up believing the opposite after having looked at the facts, and become converted as a result. It was an event that turned the world upside down so much that the Christian church spread across the then-known world rapidly and relentlessly, despite oppressive persecution, and is still growing today. So convinced were the 600 or so followers who actually saw Christ alive after the crucifixion, that many went to their deaths for what they believed.

So, yes, there is a life after this one. If one wants proof or evidence, there is far, far more evidence of life after death than not.

What did the Egyptians believe they had to do to get to the afterlife?

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They believed that when the body is existed the person will continue to live in on in the afterlife.

IndeedThat is why the pyramids were built, to house all of the pharoah stuff they belive will help you in the afterlife. Only the rich people and kings could aford it