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The Gauls divided the universe into three parts: Albios ("heaven, white-world, upper-world"), Bitu ("world of the living beings"), and Dubnos ("hell, lower-world, black-world"). [ 13 ] ; [ 14 ] ; [ 15 ] According to Lucan , the Gaulish druids believed that the soul went to an Otherworld, which he calls by the Latin name Orbis alius , before ...
Christians came to dub these mythical creatures as "The Hounds of Hell" or "Dogs of Hell" and theorised they were therefore owned by Satan. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] However, the Annwn of medieval Welsh tradition is an otherworldly place of plenty [ 7 ] and eternal youth [ 8 ] and not a place of punishment like the Christian concept of Hell.
In Celtic oral tradition, the Otherworld is often portrayed as an island out to the west, and even appears on some maps of Ireland during the medieval era. [ 7 ] The Celtic concept of the Otherworld became intertwined with the Christian ideas of hell and heaven, as they were explained via analogy to the Celtic Otherworld, or the Scandinavian ...
The capital of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Piriawis: The sacred life-giving river of the World of Light in Mandaean cosmology. Pleroma: Abode of the holy aeons in Gnosticism. Scholomance: A legendary school of black magic run by the Devil himself, located in Hermannstadt (now: Sibiu, Romania).
In Irish mythology, Mag Mell (modern spelling: Magh Meall, meaning 'delightful plain') [1] is one of the names for the Celtic Otherworld, a mythical realm achievable through death and/or glory. Unlike the underworld in some mythologies, Mag Mell was a pleasurable paradise, identified as either an island far to the west of Ireland or a kingdom ...
Goddess Hel and the hellhound Garmr by Johannes Gehrts, 1889. A hellhound is a mythological hound that embodies a guardian or a servant of hell, the devil, or the underworld.. Hellhounds occur in mythologies around the world, with the best-known examples being Cerberus from Greek mythology, Garmr from Norse mythology, the black dogs of English folklore, and the fairy hounds of Celtic mythol
The Old Norse name Hel is identical to the name of the location over which she rules. It stems from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *haljō-'concealed place, the underworld' (compare with Gothic halja, Old English hel or hell, Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Old High German hella), itself a derivative of *helan-'to cover > conceal, hide' (compare with OE helan, OF hela, OS helan, OHG helan).
The Celtic deities are known from a variety of sources such as written Celtic mythology, ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, religious objects, as well as place and personal names. Celtic deities can belong to two categories: general and local.