>fear of death came before anything else..
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>and time to think about it of course..
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It's a good argument, however, the very first logos was the sun, ironically, because it delivered people from the night and the fear which came of darkness. Is it possible that darkness was a symbol of death? Yes, but it was also a symbol of something that was felt by the senses, and experienced in the immediate as opposed to the afterlife, or after death. You can't see in the dark, it's cold, and predators are lurking. The sun brought light, gave birth to crop, and warmed the world, and so it was god, because it brought birth and creation. It was something that was sure and timely and only gave and created. In almost any spiritual literature you will find innumerable references to light, or enlightenment. If you simply analyze spiritual literature you will find a much deeper understanding of life than you will of death, to me, that lends to suggest that the fear of death was not as pronounced as it is today, and partly because we have lost our way.

The fear of death is an illusion much like life and death are an illusion. One cannot exist without the other and so they are the same thing, what you think you perceive as life and death was handed to you by society. If you look back far enough you will find many cultures that did not fear death at all and embraced it as a privilege. Plato, among other noted philosophers including Pythagoras traveled to Egypt to be initiated into mystic schools which passed down the knowledge of previous generations. The library in Alexandria was said to be over 10,000 years old. Egypt was not a society which feared death, and neither was the Mayan or other Indian civilizations, the Tibetan monks have a guide on how to experience death to your advantage in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. You will not find a god in those cultures that is the salvation for death. You will only find more life.