Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Using his conga-scepter, Mwindo revives his uncles before giving chase to his father. Meanwhile, Shemwindo barely escapes the destruction. Shemwindo goes to a kikota-plant, uproots it (revealing a deep pit), and descends. This becomes the portal to the Underworld, the realm of the Nyanga Pantheon.
Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron is a 5-volume, 1,800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs. An early science-fiction work called Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a "Captain Adam Seaborn" appeared in print in 1820. In ...
Rarohenga is the subterranean realm where spirits of the deceased dwell after death, according to Māori oral tradition. [1] The underworld is ruled by Hine-nui-te-pō, the goddess of death and night.
Exalted Player's Guide (by White Wolf and White Wolf Publishing Inc): Primarily a sourcebook for creatures of lesser power than the Exalted and another supplement that fleshes out the world of Exalted, this book covers merits and flaws, the God-Blooded, Half Castes, mortal thaumaturgy, the Dragon Kings, Exalted power combat and details a ...
The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living. [1] Chthonic is the technical adjective for things of the underworld. The concept of an underworld is found in almost every civilization and "may be as old as humanity ...
Sitan - god and caretaker of the underworld realm for evil souls known as Kasamaan in Tagalog mythology. Maca, the realm of the good dead, is jointly ruled by Sitan and Bathala. Manduyapit - bring souls across a red river in Manobo mythology [27] Mama Guayen - ferries souls to the end of the world in Ilonggo mythology [27]
The Underdark is a subterranean realm of enormous size inhabited by many different types of creatures such as drow, mind flayers, and aboleths. [5] It extends far beyond the dungeons created by surface dwellers, and consists of caverns, tunnels and large complexes.
The ability to enter the realm of the dead while still alive, and to return, is proof of the classical hero's exceptional status as more than mortal. A deity who returns from the underworld demonstrates eschatological themes such as the cyclical nature of time and existence, or the defeat of death and the possibility of immortality. [2]