Ecological basis of the underworld
12th June 2007
Did you ever notice that the environment where a religious mythology originated shaped its idea of the after life?
The Christian Hell is a place of fiery torment just as the danger in the Middle East is the burning sun.
The Greek Hades is simply a temperate realm where the dead gather because Greece is a temperate land.
The Nordic Hel is a frozen wasteland because the great danger in the Scandinavian countries is the cold.