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Stories From the AfterlifeEpisodes

  1. The Harrowing of Hell

    The moment Christ bursts into Hell to free the souls of the Just

  2. Persephone

    What the story of Persephone tells us about seasons, loss and resurrection

  3. Nergal and Ereshkigal

    The love story of Nergal and Ereshkigal, a 5000 year old tale from Mesopotania

  4. Native Americans

    Native Americans' culture of oral storytelling and stories about death and The Trickster

  5. Jonah

    The different interpretations of the story of 'grumpy prophet' Jonah

  6. Islam

    The traditional story of the Islamic vision of paradise and the afterlife

  7. Buddhism

    Stories of Sukhavati in Buddhism and how they relate to reincarnation

  8. A Maori Orpheus

    The Maori spirit world and how it relates to ideas of the afterlife and the underworld