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A river that separates the living from the dead in Norse mythology. Hel (heimr) The underworld in Norse mythology. Hvergelmir: A major spring in Norse mythology. Jotunheim: Land of the giants in Norse mythology. [5] Kvenland: A geographical area referred to in several medieval texts as well as in Norse sagas.
The 'Land of the Ever Young' depicted by Arthur Rackham in Irish Fairy Tales (1920). In Celtic mythology, the Otherworld is the realm of the deities and possibly also the dead. In Gaelic and Brittonic myth it is usually a supernatural realm of everlasting youth, beauty, health, abundance and joy. [1]
Hittite mythology: Dankuš daganzipaš/Dankuš tekan (dark earth) Hopi mythology: Maski Hungarian mythology: Alvilág: Inca mythology: Uku Pacha: Inuit mythology: Adlivun: Islamic mythology: Jahannam, Sijjin: Jainism: Naraka, Adho Loka (the lower world) Shinto: Yomi 黄泉, Ne-no-Kuni 根の国, Jigoku 地獄 Jewish mythology
One explanation of the myth contrasts the trials of Ōkuninushi to a symbolic death through rites of initiation that cause one to become reborn into a new life. In this story, death does not pollute; it regenerates. The land of the dead also contains the forces of life, tama. [2]
Yomi or Yomi-no-kuni (黄泉, 黄泉の国, or 黄泉ノ国) is the Japanese word for the land of the dead (World of Darkness). [1] According to Shinto mythology as related in Kojiki, this is where the dead go in the afterlife. Once one has eaten at the hearth of Yomi it is (mostly) impossible to return to the land of the living. [2]
In Mesopotamian mythology, Ereshkigal (Sumerian: 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒆠𒃲 [D EREŠ.KI.GAL]), lit. "Queen of the Great Earth") [1] [2] [a] was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology. In later myths, she was said to rule Irkalla alongside her husband Nergal.
Sidapa (Bisaya mythology): the goddess of death; co-ruler of the middleworld called Kamaritaan, together with Makaptan [18] Sidapa (Hiligaynon mythology): god who lives in the sacred Mount Madia-as; determines the day of a person's death by marking every newborn's lifespan on a very tall tree on Madya-as [24]
The dead were also seen as being able to bestow land fertility, often in return for votive offerings, and knowledge, either willingly or after coercion. Many of these beliefs and practices continued in altered forms after the Christianisation of the Germanic peoples in folk belief .