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Pages in category "Afterlife places" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A farm upstate;
A place where immortals lived according to Chinese mythology. Longmen: A legendary waterfall in Chinese mythology. Mount Buzhou: An ancient Chinese mythological mountain which, according to old texts, lay to the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains, in a location today referred to as the Pamir Mountains. Mount Penglai
The noun "purgatorium" (Latin: place of cleansing [50]) is used for the first time to describe a state of painful purification of the saved afterlife. The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius -a -um , cleansing), which appears also in non-religious writing, [ 51 ] was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory ...
Rivers are a fundamental part of the topography of the underworld and are found in the earliest source materials: [12] In Homer's Iliad, the "ghost" of Patroclus makes specific mention of gates and a river (unnamed) in Hades; [13] in Homer's Odyssey, the "ghost" of Odysseus's mother, Anticlea, describes there being many "great rivers and appalling streams", and reference is made to at least ...
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Other afterlife destinations include heaven, paradise, purgatory, limbo, and the underworld. Other religions, which do not conceive of the afterlife as a place of punishment or reward, merely describe an abode of the dead, the grave, a neutral place that is located under the surface of Earth (for example, see Kur, Hades, and Sheol).
Following are lists of fictional locations, as large as a universe and as small as a pub. List of fictional bars and pubs; List of fictional castles;
For later Greek poets the very ancient pre-Homeric association of the asphodel flower with a positive form of afterlife as well as the enlarged role of Elysium as it became the destination of more than just a few lucky heroes, altered the character of the meadows. Greek poets who wrote after Homer's time describe them as untouched, lovely, soft ...