RE: Lake Of Fire?
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Was this very early in the morning? It looks so surreal.
Is that where you end up if you don't do as the men in robes tell you to do?
The lake of fire is outside Jerusalem where the ancient people used to burn the dead of "bad people" instead of burying them. There's no "hell", thank God.
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Yeah, it was a little after eight AM.
There is a place called Gehenna where they did that. According to Wikipedia, ancient Jewish people would sacrifice royal children to their gods by burning them. Yikes! (Philosophy is the most important discipline of them all because it took generations of philosophers to get us away from that mental universe. Without critical thinkers we'd have remained the scared little monkeys the ancients around the world were, sacrificing the most valuable in order to appease imaginary beings purported to be in control of events that were actually random or just natural processes.)
The sand people including the Jews and the Arabs never cremate their dead. That custom is for the Indo-Europeans. It probably has to do with not wasting scarce firewood by building a funeral pyre. In contrast, Indo-European peoples live in the wet tropics or the temperate zone where there was always enough firewood in the ancient times when these customs were formed.
Is cremation or burial the norm in traditional Sub-Saharan African cultures?
Interesting stuff.
I'd say burial. Cremation was probably unfathomable since they believed in reincarnation are whole body resurrections. I can imagine burning was a bit too permanent.
I see.