Roots and Sources

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Roots noun - The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage.

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Sources and roots are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sources" instead a noun "Roots".

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Roots and sources are semantically related. You can use "Roots" instead a noun "Sources".

The theological roots of Hell, and the modern pop-cultural image of it, come from a variety of sources, from Christian beliefs to Greek and Egyptian mythology to medieval literature.

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This also manages to simultaneously be Older Than They Think, as most people who realize this blame it on Dungeons & Dragons, when it's a misconception with much older roots, and crops up in sources that are very obviously not influenced by the Dungeons & Dragons version.

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