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[Alexandr Korol]

perished. Or rather, it wasn’t “dirty” or earthly, because otherwise, you wouldn’t have entered paradise. It’s just that all those multiverses – thousands of them – are now collapsing and being destroyed. And all those people who are perishing in those multiverses either wake up here, as if they just woke up and, for some reason, became spiritual, and that’s it, nothing else changes. Or some wake up and find their cities in ruins, as Viktor Tsoi sang.
Further, I read in Wikipedia about ancient Greek and Roman religions, about how they describe paradise, in their understanding, as Elysium, and Tartarus as hell. It is described differently what awaits people; there were always some guides to both places – this is still a sacred language, so you understand. And from such curious things that I took note of, that the Egyptians attached great importance to this, they worried that suddenly they would end up not in paradise, but in hell, and everyone was preparing for this. In fact, there is no need to prepare for this; one should have thought about it earlier. It says there that “Charon, also known as the Ferryman, had to ferry the soul across the river to Hades. If the soul had gold: after burial, relatives placed a coin under the tongue of the deceased. After the soul is transported, it will be judged by Aeacus, Rhadamanthus, and King Minos. The soul will be sent to Elysium, Tartarus, the Asphodel Fields, or the Fields of Punishment. The Elysian Fields were for those who lived pure lives. They consisted of green fields, valleys, and mountains; everyone there was peaceful and contented, and the sun always shone there. Tartarus was for people who blasphemed against the gods or were simply rebellious and consciously evil.” I liked that, “consciously evil.” “The Fields of Punishment were for people who often sinned, but not enough to be sent to Tartarus. In Tartarus, the soul was punished by being burned in lava or stretched on the rack. Some heroes of Greek legends were allowed to visit the underworld. The Romans had a similar belief system about the afterlife, and Hades was known as Pluto. In the ancient Greek myth about the Labors of Heracles, the hero Heracles had to go to the underworld to capture Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog, as one of his tasks.” And so I assumed that when I encountered the underworld in the fourth volume, in the world of the living, now I need to clarify... That is, imagine a coin: one side is the world of the living, which consists of three parts – heaven, earth, and underground. And there is the other side of the coin, which is simply white, the otherworldly. The fifth volume is dedicated to this otherworldly side, while the other side concerns the living