The article analyzes the common features in the ideas about the afterlife, which are reflected in the texts of visions of the 8th century. All the visions in these texts performed similar functions, and one can clearly trace in these visions stable concepts and images associated with the senses: vision, hearing and smell. We consider the question whether these concepts clearly relate either to the picture of Paradise or to the underworld, and recreate the picture of the other world in the minds of the 8th-century Christians.
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