>enjoy your clayHow do contemporary religious people cope with the fact that the Sumerian conception of the afterlife is the only correct one, and that therefore all that happens after you die is eating clay for all eternity in an underground cave?
>>18020108Whore.
>>18020108I don't think anyone knows for sure what they believed. Translating scraps of a dead language from thousands of years ago doesn't paint a full picture.
>>18020108This is that filthy vermin who stands on the corpse of a half of the One True God
Vamp
>>18020294Probably something to do with retards destroying and confounding everything for useless sentiments. Oh but wait, might is right? Then nothing is right. Only power. Well then guess what? The powers take power from themselves in the failure to recognize their perpetual undoing and mitigations. Absolutely nothing we say or do matters, and is merely an indulgence for evil as it consumes itself. Ouroboros should be ripped apart at the subatomic level and remade into something decent and complete that doesnt require consuming itself. Death cults and ponzis up and down the blocks in the town of infinity. Definitely better ways we could be doing things. People cant even think outside the concepts presented to them. Gods cant either according to people.
You're supposed to treat it symbolically, not literally.
>>18020108Someday, Ishtar will get sufficiently angry with her sister Ereshkigal that she'll break down the gates of the underworld and we'll all come rising back up to feast upon the flesh of the living.
>>18020108They were correct that without faith in God Almighty, they'd be condemned to the land of the dead.
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>>18020108>The souls in Kur were believed to eat nothing but dry dust[11] and family members of the deceased would ritually pour libations into the dead person's grave through a clay pipe, thereby allowing the dead to drink.[12] For this reason, it was considered essential to have as many offspring as possible so that one's descendants could continue to provide libations for the dead person to drink for many years.[13] Those who had died without descendants would suffer the most in the underworld, because they would have nothing to drink at all,[14] and were believed to haunt the living.[15] Sometimes the dead are described as naked or clothed in feathers like birds.[3] Ancient Mesopotamians had the belief that the afterlife was a shadow version of life on earth.[16]>Nonetheless, there are assumptions according to which treasures in wealthy graves had been intended as offerings for Utu and the Anunnaki, so that the deceased would receive special favors in the underworld.[2] During the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 – c. 2004 BC), it was believed that a person's treatment in the afterlife depended on how they were buried;[12] those that had been given sumptuous burials would be treated well,[12] but those who had been given poor burials would fare poorly.[12] Those who did not receive a proper burial, such as those who had died in fires and whose bodies had been burned or those who died alone in the desert, would have no existence in the underworld at all, but would simply cease to exist.[14] The Sumerians believed that, for the highly privileged, music could alleviate the bleak conditions of the underworld.[10]>were believed to haunt the living.They could be happy just being angry ghosts who haunt the living?
