You must know where I am headed after discussions of death and Dante and Egyptian mummies that my next topic has to be the clash of cultures between Egypt and the Children of Israel especially at this time of year. The story of Passover is billed as a deliverance of the Children of Israel from…

In the previous section on the Dantean Cosmos we saw that in considering the Afterlife, it was necessary for Dante to examine the Whole World as he knew it. This gave him widest berth possible in his masterwork, The Divine Comedy. When I consider all of the ramifications, I find it impossible to fully comprehend…