70 myths · Page 3 of 3
Dreams came thick after too much talk. Anger sat in the chest like a kettle. Two sages argued heaven's seats while the living spilled careless speech.
The soul arrived without the body it had argued with for years. Its guides did not explain. They pointed at the half that burned and the half pelting ice.
The room smelled of vinegar cloths and a lamp burned too long. Everyone around Eliezer's bed was weeping. One face in the circle looked almost glad.
Two thieves share one life until ropes drag one to a grave. The survivor turns. After death the stubborn one begs to return and finds the gate sealed shut.
The worst king's soul meets a sword that swings between fire and ice, then takes the silver ceiling of paradise's second chamber for the penitent.
After the shroud is knotted, a righteous soul slips under the purple-blue Throne of Glory and waits for resurrection in the dark of sapphire.
For seven days after death the soul refuses to leave, climbing from the grave to the doorway and back while the mourners sit below on the floor.
A newly dead man reaches the gates of Gehenna (afterlife of judgment), where a fierce angel decides who is scorched and who is spared across seven descending.
Abigail knelt in David's path and named where the dead go. The righteous bound in the bundle of life, the wicked slung out past the sky.
A righteous soul dies at lamplight and is carried up through seven palaces, and at the last gate the guards nock arrows before the seal is lifted.
