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The soul that had no tomb had no dwelling-place. It was a wandering spirit.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
According to the oldest belief of the Italians and Greeks, the soul did not go into a foreign world to pass its second existence; it remained near men, and continued to live under ground.1
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
Spiritual Frameworks
Claudia Dawson • 1 card
Romulus dug a small trench, of a circular form, and threw into it a clod of earth, which he had brought from the city of Alba.263 Then each of his companions, approaching by turns, following his example, threw in a little earth, which he had brought from the country from which he had come. This rite is remarkable, and reveals to us a notion of the
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THE PATHWAY TO GENIUS
Kevin L. Michel • Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams
The ancient Greek cosmos encompassed both the dayworld and the underworld, the telluric (“upper earth”) and chthonic (“under earth”). In accord with this vision, the divine pantheon was separated into gods that belonged to the deep earth, cthonioi, such as Persephone, Hades, and Hecate, and Olympians such as Athena, Apollo, and Hera, who were of
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