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Also Known As	life after death

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Murals in the Tomb of Sennedjem

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damnation sleep of the soul soul ship eternal life Hawaiki resurrection hell heaven purgatory immortality spirituality

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Pre-Columbian civilizations: Mythology of death and afterlife

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Cassiodorus

historian, statesman, and monk