Word: raiment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Until about six years ago nothing was known of the religion of the people of the first dynasties. Every dead person had a double, which was subject to hunger, fatigue and mortality. The double was very similar to the manes of the Romans and food and raiment was set aside to appease their wants. One of the first laws was that without divine help man could rise above animal brutishness...