Mesopotamian mysteries have long captivated the West. Among them, Assyrian spirit tales stand out. They believed that unsettled spirits would come back from the afterlife, often due to improper burials or unnatural deaths, to haunt and even possess the living. Complex exorcisms were essential to fend off these vengeful spirits. Dive into Assyrian specter legends, and the age-old fear of ghosts suddenly makes perfect sense.
With no scientific explanation for anything that happened in their lives & thinking that dreams were another world they were really trapped by their own imaginations' products . I remember being very scared as a child at night, until I grew old enough to talk to myself & realize that just by entertaining such thoughts you allow them to take over your brain & frighten you. IOW you CREATE that very thing that then scares you ! What these ancient civilizations appear to have done is basically mass hysteria over stuff they didn't understand., so they created strange beings as the explanations of those ideas that scared them.
We cannot just blame the Christians for fear-mongering hell, satan, devil etc. It seems the fear-mongering craft is very ancient. Or is this like vcragain seems to be suggesting that us humans have always had dark fear, the response of being ‘scared’ or the unknown or what was not understood. Rather than face it head on, because it’s really harmless, blame something or someone else that has to be banished. I suppose this process is part of ‘growing up’?
With no scientific explanation for anything that happened in their lives & thinking that dreams were another world they were really trapped by their own imaginations' products . I remember being very scared as a child at night, until I grew old enough to talk to myself & realize that just by entertaining such thoughts you allow them to take over your brain & frighten you. IOW you CREATE that very thing that then scares you ! What these ancient civilizations appear to have done is basically mass hysteria over stuff they didn't understand., so they created strange beings as the explanations of those ideas that scared them.
We cannot just blame the Christians for fear-mongering hell, satan, devil etc. It seems the fear-mongering craft is very ancient. Or is this like vcragain seems to be suggesting that us humans have always had dark fear, the response of being ‘scared’ or the unknown or what was not understood. Rather than face it head on, because it’s really harmless, blame something or someone else that has to be banished. I suppose this process is part of ‘growing up’?