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Chapter 5 - death as separation and reversal.

Read chapter 4 - death as dissociation. The amount of importance they place on images/representations is interesting. The fact that there's no distinction between a corpse/mummy and a statue 🤔

Finished chapter 3 - death as enemy. Tbh the topics are really interesting but this book does nottttt need to be this long. The writing is super redundant.

Finished chapter 1. Interesting parallel between embalming recitations and love poems: the dissection of the body with the aim of breathing into it life.

Finished the intro 😑. I'll try to read 1 chapter a day I guess

Immediately taking a star off bc this man said "Ancient Israel". Literally immediately lost so much credibility. What the fuck is Ancient Israel????? Care to explain? You mean Palestine you moron? Not this ahistorical shit acting like Israel existed before 1948 bro are you a historian or an idiot?

Let's get into it... This is actually an extremely interesting premise about how culture (in general) stems from death, and how culture is our way of distracting ourselves from death and creating meaning to overcome the despair... Gilgamesh and Enkidu were mentioned <3
(I started another book abt the gods but I wanna read the hard copy of that one so I started this one... Still rly wanna learn abt the gods.)