Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...This belief brought with it a corresponding cultus of the dead. On the other hand was the conception of the dead as "the weak," or "languid." The idea of the tomb in which the members of a family were buried, grew to the larger idea of sheol or the underworld, a place of dark, gloomy depths. Several passages in the Bible indicate the belief that earthly distinctions were carried into the other world...
Semitic Seminary. Descent of the Goddess Ishtar to the Underworld. Professor Lyon. Seyer...
Semitic Seminary. Descent of the Goddess Ishtar to the Underworld. Professor Lyon. Sever...