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  2. Greek underworld - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the underworld or Hades (Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Háidēs) is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence ( psyche ) is separated from the corpse and ...

  3. Harrowing of Hell - Wikipedia

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    The Catechism of the Catholic Church notes Ephesians 4:9, which states that "[Christ] descended into the lower parts of the earth", as also supporting this interpretation. [3] These passages in the New Testament have given rise to differing interpretations. [4] The Harrowing of Hell is commemorated in the liturgical calendar on Holy Saturday. [5]

  4. Tartarus - Wikipedia

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    The English Standard Version is one of several English versions that gives the Greek reading Tartarus as a footnote: For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell(a) and committed them to chains(b) of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

  5. Gehenna - Wikipedia

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    The 16th century Tyndale and later translators had access to the Greek, but Tyndale translated both Gehenna and Hades as same English word, Hell. The 17th century King James Version of the Bible is the only English translation in modern use to translate Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna by calling them all "Hell."

  6. Katabasis - Wikipedia

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    The trip to the underworld is a mytheme of comparative mythology found in a diverse number of religions from around the world. [1] The hero or upper-world deity journeys to the underworld or to the land of the dead and returns.

  7. Hell in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Different Hebrew and Greek words are translated as "Hell" in most English-language Bibles. These words include: "Sheol" in the Hebrew Bible, and "Hades" in the New Testament. Many modern versions, such as the New International Version, translate Sheol as "grave" and simply transliterate "Hades".

  8. Early Greek cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Near the edges of the earth is a region inhabited by fantastical creatures, monsters, and quasi-human beings. [6] Once one reaches the ends of the earth they find it to be surrounded by and delimited by an ocean (), [7] [8] as is seen in the Babylonian Map of the World, although there is one main difference between the Babylonian and early Greek view: Oceanus is a river and so has an outer ...

  9. Elysium - Wikipedia

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    Goethe's Ankunft im Elysia by Franz Nadorp. Elysium (/ ɪ ˈ l ɪ z i. ə m, ɪ ˈ l ɪ ʒ ə m / [1]), otherwise known as the Elysian Fields (Ancient Greek: Ἠλύσιον πεδίον, Ēlýsion pedíon) or Elysian Plains, is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults.