The
Public Domain review has digitized art from an “Unknown Manuscript”
found in the in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art digital
collections. The language is Eastern Turki, which was used in the late
19th and early 20th centuries in
Turkestan
(which encompasses several Central Asian countries). The pictures
describe the punishments, and in some cases, rewards, that await us in
the afterlife.
There are nine illustrations posted,
most of which have captions explaining what the punishment is and what
the poor soul did to deserve it. The transgressions seem minor, such as
eavesdropping and neglecting to say a prayer after you’ve seen a naked
body. No caption for the image shown here, so we can only speculate on
what may cause someone to be eaten by a herd of snakes in the hereafter.
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