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Nick Jans - The Last Night Breaking - On death and birth
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011490
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Nick Jans - The Last Night Breaking
The old belief was that spirits rose into the sky to dance in the aurora, awaiting the birth of children to bear their names, to become vessels for their souls. Even today a family's first child born after a death carries the dead one's name-and, some insist, the same spirit.