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The Irish Otherworld is more usually described as a paradisal fairyland than a frightening place. [6] Many Celtic Immrams or "voyage stories" and other medieval texts provide evidence of a Celtic belief in an otherworld. One example which is helpful to understand the Celtic concept of the otherworld is The Voyage of Saint Brendan.
Otherworld is an American science fiction television series that aired for eight episodes from January 26 to March 16, 1985 on CBS and was created by Roderick Taylor. [1] Taylor gave himself a cameo role in each episode.
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 ]
Tokoyo (常世), [1] also known as Kakuriyo (隠世、幽世), or Taikaikan [2] is a realm in Shinto.It is an "otherworld" though not necessarily seen as a place in the afterlife, but rather as a mythical realm with many interpretations.
Annwn, Annwfn, or Annwfyn (; Annwvn, Annwyn, Annwyfn, Annwvyn, or Annwfyn) is the Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (or, in Arthurian literature, by Gwyn ap Nudd [ 3 ] ), it is a world of delights and eternal youth where disease is absent and food is ever-abundant.
Isekai (Japanese: 異世界 transl. 'different world', 'another world', or 'other world') is a sub-genre of fiction.It includes novels, light novels, films, manga, webtoons, anime, and video games that revolve around a displaced person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world such as a fantasy world, game world, or parallel universe with or without the possibility ...
Caer Sidi (or Caer Siddi) is the name of a legendary otherworld fortress mentioned in Middle Welsh mythological poems in the Book of Taliesin (14th century). The poem of Taliesin Preiddeu Annwfn contains the fullest description of the Briton “other world” that mythological literature can provide. It has been collated by Charles Squire (1905 ...
An otherworld is a term in mythology and religion for other realms of existence beyond the mortal one, where beings such as deities, spirits, fairies, and the dead may reside. Otherworld may also refer to: