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A jack-of-all-trades and master of some, R. Mathis has worn many hats as a husband, father, student, teacher, soldier, and finance professional. However, he has always been a writer. After graduating from the University of Tennessee with a BS in mathematics, he served nine years in the army as an armored cavalry officer, rising to the rank of captain and holding a secret-level clearance.
During A jack-of-all-trades and master of some, R. During that time, he served a yearlong combat tour in Iraq.
He has since earned an MBA and transitioned into the finance field. Rob currently lives in Tennessee with his wife and family.
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Traditional healing practices ascribed a variety of illnesses to the action of ghosts, while others were caused by gods or demons. In Mesopotamian religion, Irkalla, the Underworld , is ruled by the goddess Ereshkigal and her consort Nergal or Ninazu. Ghosts spent some time traveling to the netherworld, often having to overcome obstacles along the way.
The court explained the rules and assigned the ghost his fate or place.
Another court was presided over by the sun god Utu , who visited the netherworlds on his daily round, Shamash might punish ghosts who harassed the living, and might award a share of funerary offerings to forgotten ghosts. The Babylonian netherworld was populated by an array of monsters and demons. However, within the netherworld the ghosts existed in a manner similar to the living.
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They had houses and could meet with deceased family members and associates. The Epic of Gilgamesh revolves around a relationship between the hero-king Gilgamesh and his close companion, Enkidu.
It may loosely refer to a real king of the 27th century BC E. Part of the story relates Enkidu's death, the adventures of his ghost in the underworld, and the eventual return to the world when Gilgamesh breaks a hole in the earth. The Babylonians believed that life in the underworld could be made more tolerable if the surviving relatives regularly made offerings of food and drink.
Dear God, who hated them all and wanted them dead and gone, the crash had been more horrible than anything she'd ever experienced in her life. The car rolled once, twice, three times, more.
A woman — it had to be Charlie — screaming too. The window glass smashing against her head. Audrey couldn't even muster a scream of her own. An angel had done this to them, damn it! The car seemed to revolve as if in a dream, and something snapped in Audrey's thigh with a blinding blaze of agony. Images flew through her mind as she was tossed within the metal coffin of the police car like a doll in a dryer. Images of the little fat naked cherubs her grandmother used to keep on top of the old television set in her apartment.
Little badly-painted angels with big dopey Precious Moments eyes, clutching patched teddy bears and puppies in dust-caked arms.
Stupid looking, cheap, crappy things picked up at the dollar store by an indifferent daughter on the way down and displayed with gratitude by a mother who desperately wanted to pretend that she was loved. Even then it made Audrey sad…. A nativity scene in front of the Rotary Club that they put up every Christmas in her hometown.