From the book "The Ancient City" I learned that Greeks and Romans had a family religion. They honored their ancestors whose spirits lived in the ground beneath their family home. The "focus" was a hearth inside the home. The only good food the ancestors got were sacrifices made by their descendants.
So one can look at the dusty food in Hades from a utilitarian perspective. This belief encourages sacrifice for the family and procreation.
Like the current belief in transmittable disease, it is full of contradictions, yet is held by the majority of people.
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From the book "The Ancient City" I learned that Greeks and Romans had a family religion. They honored their ancestors whose spirits lived in the ground beneath their family home. The "focus" was a hearth inside the home. The only good food the ancestors got were sacrifices made by their descendants.
So one can look at the dusty food in Hades from a utilitarian perspective. This belief encourages sacrifice for the family and procreation.
Like the current belief in transmittable disease, it is full of contradictions, yet is held by the majority of people.