12-22-2022, 20:00:49 PM
Hey fun fact
The Northern European Mythology had two good afterlives, but people only remember that Valhalla exists. It's also not clear that death in battle was required for either of them, just that the Valkyries would give anyone who died fighting Justly and Well(tm) a place in one of them with no questions asked, like proper funeral rites. (Presumably to make dealing with the war dead less of an issue, because you could just say "eh whatever it'd be a pain to give them all rites, anyone who dies fighting a good fight doesn't need them.")
Also presumably human sacrifices went to one or both of the good afterlives, because most religions who do human sacrifices say that human sacrifices send people to good afterlives.
The Northern European Mythology had two good afterlives, but people only remember that Valhalla exists. It's also not clear that death in battle was required for either of them, just that the Valkyries would give anyone who died fighting Justly and Well(tm) a place in one of them with no questions asked, like proper funeral rites. (Presumably to make dealing with the war dead less of an issue, because you could just say "eh whatever it'd be a pain to give them all rites, anyone who dies fighting a good fight doesn't need them.")
Also presumably human sacrifices went to one or both of the good afterlives, because most religions who do human sacrifices say that human sacrifices send people to good afterlives.
I am the They who says it!