XII. The Virginians also believe soul-immortality; transfer to gods' seats or Popogusso (Hariot)
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XII.THE VIRGINIANS also believe the immortality of the soul.For as soon as it is loosed from the body they hold that it is transferred according to the works it has done, either to the seats of the gods to enjoy perpetual happiness, or to a huge ditch or pit (which they judge to be situated at the furthest bounds of the world, far from themselves toward the west) unto perpetual fire.This place they themselves call Popogusso, as Thomas Hariot the Englishman related in his narrative of the commodities and rites of Virginia.
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XII. VIRGINIENSES animae immortalitatem etiam credunt. Nam eam statim atque a corpore soluta est transferri secundum opera quae fecit, vel ad Deorum sedes ad perpetuam felicitatem fruendam, vel ad ingentem fossam seu scrobem (quam in extremis mundi finibus procul ab ipsis versus occidentem sitam esse censent) ad perpetuum ignem. Hunc locum ipsi Popogusso appellant, ut prodidit Thomas Hariotus Anglus narratione de commodis & ritibus Virginiae.