“Lift the mountain on your hands,” or How to Cross a Netherworld Border
West Asian texts depict the netherworld as a land which is bounded, keeping outsiders from entering and inhabitants from leaving. Yet, borders are seldom entirely unable to be cros
Altered States and Paleolithic Caves
Humans have been using caves for at least 100,000 years. Caves let humans get closer to the entities below, but does oxygen deprivation help create altered states and worldly wonde