The belief in ascending to Heaven after death became widespread in the Han dynasty.

A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe. / His walet lay biforn him in his lappe.

DLLs are greatly affected by this thunking mechanism.

Bright Truth! I grew aweary of the dull, Undeviating, dusty road of Science, Vacant o’ beauty, barren o’ sweetness; I thought—deceptible, ah! too deceptible— The true Elysium lay within the mind Fill’d with amaranthian flow’rs of Fantasie […]