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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MorolongMaropeng: [QB] [b]Sam P said:[/b] I don't believe they thought there was really life after death until 2000 BC when the language changed. They recognized a sort of "quasi-life" after death but it was largely just that they thought you weren't really dead until no one remembered you any longer. Here the use of the term "Afterlife" is also a type of a 'mutation'. By mere combination of two word to express a belief it suggests that it is a concept not borne from an Anglo culture but rather a Lingua Franca term adopted from somewhere else. What informed this concept was mostly images left by the ancients and by far Egypt serves as the oldest. Not to say their decoding of the encoded was accurate The Bantu belief system does not have a term or a word tht attempts to explain the afterlife or the hereafter. Rather in its various languages forms it is referred to as just 'Sleep' which is a term used to refer to the recently deceased. For someone who's been dead for a while, a rather complicated term "Tlhokofala" is used. To properly translate this into English language would require a set of 2-3 words which by no doubt creates a typo no matter how closely the translation is to the original. It means "To no longer be visible". To use such an approach to explain an African belief system is self-defeating, rather use ancient modality as apoint of depature to try explain the subsequent belief systems. Take it easy on 2000 BC bench mark, it is hard to fill a cup which is already full [/QB][/QUOTE]
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