Irving Finkel

It's like they didn't believe in ghosts.

They took them for granted.

And they didn't believe in the gods.

They took them for granted.

This is a different mechanism because nobody here in the world today takes those things for granted.

Just the opposite.

But I think that's how it worked.

So you didn't have people wrestling with the idea of whether the gods really exist or whether they really care about me.

They gave them a nudge when it was necessary.

And they might offer this, they might offer that.

But it was the system.

It was the prevailing system.

And I think it's an important difference.

And also that thing about ghosts is clear from the inscriptions, all of them, that I managed to find, that nobody ever asked themselves, did these things exist or not?

Or did I really see them or not?

They didn't.

They just took it all for granted.

Well, everybody who died in bed naturally or peacefully, what we call their ghost, went down to the netherworld.

And there they were.

So they buried people jolly quick for obvious reasons.