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Sleep #0040 - Offerings to the God Asclepius at Epidavros, Greece

The cult of Asclepius was popular during 300s BC in Greece. Invalids came to this shrine and left a physical symbol of the part that was healed during incubation, that is when the god Asclepious would heal them in a dream.

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The cult of Asclepius was popular during 300s BC in Greece.   Invalids came to this shrine and left a physical symbol of the part that was healed during incubation, that is when the god Asclepious would heal them in a dream.
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