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Hades, the abode of the dead. An interesting episode in the Odyssey occurs when Odysseus looks for Tiresias, the seer, in the underworld to discover his own fate.
There he encounters his mother and dead friends from the Trojan War, living as shades in a somewhat disconsolate way, but not in what we would think of as heaven or hell.
The heart of the story of Adam and Eve is their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, a permanent vacation land where they might have lived eternally, had they obeyed God’s command not to taste the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
A famous discussion of the nature of human life by the AngloSaxon Christian writer, the Venerable Bede (673-735), “the father of English learning,” likens our existence to the flight of a bird on a cold winter’s night from the dark outside into the warm, lighted mead hall, and in a minute out the other side.
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