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“1st Great Mystery – Death... and the Afterlife". Fiction mystery thrillers probe
Ancient Egypt penetrated the most fascinating human question of all – is there life after death?
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| Afterlife conspiracy
The Egyptians were preoccupied with the afterlife, but they took it
even more seriously than many imagined. Humans, they say, are the only
creatures that must live life with the knowledge that one day they’re going to
die and our culture is the world of distraction we create around ourselves to
shield us from this knowledge.
But the Egyptians’ culture did not serve as a
mere distraction to the pitiless cruelty of death. Instead their culture came
to grips with death in an attempt to overcome its tyranny. This doorway and
statue, the glowing underworlds of the tombs, the Books of Coming Forth By Day,
or the Book of the Dead as they called these religious texts - were the results
of government-funded research into the ‘first mystery’- death and the
afterlife.
The early pyramids were like nationally financed space-shots
designed to launch the god-king pharaoh into the hereafter.
The Egyptians even
had maps showing the routes to the underworld painted on the bases of coffins.
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