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Re: Corpses (WAS: Arabic article (was: Corpses))

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 11, 2003, 9:32
Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> Isidora Zamora wrote: > > I need to fix that, but so far I haven't been able to come up > > with any good ideas for a culture whose primary deity is locked in a > > struggle with Death. They believe that the Sun is more powerful than > > Death...but surely they cannot have failed to have noticed that every > > single human being ever born dies. What would such a culture believe > about > > the afterlife? > > Perhaps it would be something similar to the Christian idea of > salvation. Those who worship the Sun do not truly die. They're > reincarnated, or they're brought to the Land of the Sun, a land of > eternal light and goodness. Or even closer to Christianity, there will > be a Resurrection Day at some point in the future.
I was intending to suggest very much the same. Andreas