He imitates the dead and tells comforting messages from the dead to the living. ... The marriage customs of the Yoruba permitted polygamy and incestuous marriages, as well as the practice of marrying a dead male relative's widow and adopting his children. ... Europeans also insisted upon burying the dead in communal graveyards rather than the traditional Yoruba practice of burying them in the house. As a result it interfered with communication between the Yoruba and their dead relatives The Yoruba, whose main occupation is farming, considers yams important symbols of thanksgiving. ... ...

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For example, Odysseus ordered these women to pick up the bodies of the dead suitors and clean up the bloody hall. "These dead must be disposed first of all. ... In The Odyssey, there is a quote that supports this theme: "Hearing this land described by Pallas Athena, daughter of Zeus who rules the veering stormwind." ...

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Three days later he rose from the dead, proving he was and is the Son of God. ... It also is remembered in the journey that every Muslim has to take at least once in his/her lifetime to Mecca, or the hold land. Basically I think that taking this journey, which is stated as a rule in the five pillars (five duties of every Muslim containing only worshiping the one true god Allah, praying five times a day in the direction of the holy land Mecca, giving alms to charity, fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, and making a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in your life), is a way to relive the jo...

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Wigglesworth also brings up the sin of lust in the passage, "how unfit am I to sanctify a Sabbath, with such a carnal heart, such dead and dull affections, such distracting thoughts as possess and fill my sacrament?... Mather also gives his own evidence of people going into the dark side, saying "yea, more than one twenty have confessed that they have signed unto a book, which the Devil showed them and engaged in his hellish design of bewitching and ruining our land." ...

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No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flee, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. ... If something (namely God) was once seen as the only explanation to all that was good, and now is perceived as dead or a lie, it tends to make people reflect on ancient explanations, question these explanations, and generate new ideas. ...

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You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.... Immigration is still a hot topic, whether an individual should be allowed to live in a land created by God for his people. ...

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