Earliest mention of a Lake of Fire in the underworld; the Egyptian Book of the Two Ways (jan 1, 2100 BC – jan 1, 1700 BC)
Description:
This iconography would make its way into descriptions of the Greek land of the dead, Tartarus, and then into Christianity.
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Date:
jan 1, 2100 BC
jan 1, 1700 BC
~ 400 years