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Sleaker • yesterday at 7:10 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It was the believed area of emotion, passion and 'soul'. I think western/modern religion has morphed from the liver to the heart essentially.


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pinkmuffinere • yesterday at 7:37 PM

This is still the normal in the middle east (and likely elsewhere)! In Turkey you call somebody dear to you "my liver" as a pet name.