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AsgardRealm of the AEsirThe stronghold of the AEsir. A walled citadel of halls at the top of the world tree, reached by the rainbow bridge and built on a bargain the gods broke.Realm · NorseAvalonThe Isle of ApplesThe isle of apples: the healing island where Excalibur was forged and where the wounded Arthur was carried, neither dead nor returned.Realm · Arthurian

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CamelotArthur's Chief CourtArthur's chief court: a place named almost by accident in one French poem, which grew into the most famous city that never existed.Realm · ArthurianThe Celtic Otherworld and the SidheThe Land Beyond the MoundNot an afterlife but a parallel country — the sid mounds, the islands west of the sea, and the aos si who kept Ireland after they lost it.Realm · Celtic

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DiyuThe UnderworldThe Chinese underworld — a bureaucracy of ten courts where the dead are tried, serve sentences for what they did, and are then sent back into rebirth.Realm · ChineseThe DuatThe UnderworldThe Egyptian underworld — the night country crossed by the sun in twelve hours and by every dead Egyptian hoping to come out reborn at dawn.Realm · Egyptian

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ElysiumThe Blessed FieldsThe blessed fields — an afterlife of light and ease that began as a plain at the world's edge and ended as a district of Virgil's underworld.Realm · Roman

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HelheimThe Cold UnderworldThe cold underworld. Down and to the north, past a gold-roofed bridge and a gate that does not open twice, the hall where most of the Norse dead actually go.Realm · Norse

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IrkallaThe Land of No ReturnThe land of no return — the dusty house below the earth where every Mesopotamian dead person went, ruled by Ereshkigal and locked behind seven gates.Realm · MesopotamianIthacaKingdom of OdysseusThe rocky island kingdom of Odysseus and the destination of the Odyssey — a small, goat-grazed place worth ten years of sailing to get back to.Realm · Greek

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JotunheimLand of GiantsLand of the giants. The wild country east of the fence, older than the gods, holding the wisdom and the brides the AEsir keep going out to take.Realm · Norse

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MictlanThe Place of the DeadThe Place of the Dead — a ninefold underworld reached by a four-year journey, where the ordinary dead arrive at last and simply cease.Realm · AztecMidgardRealm of MankindThe middle enclosure. The human world, built from a murdered giant's body, fenced by his eyebrows, and ringed by a serpent that will one day let go of its tail.Realm · NorseMount OlympusHome of the GodsHome of the gods. A real snow-capped mountain in northern Greece that Homer made into a cloudless upper world where the twelve immortals hold court.Realm · Greek

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NavLand of the DeadThe land of the dead — an old Slavic word for a corpse and for the dead who come back, and the least documented otherworld in European mythology.Realm · Slavic

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TakamagaharaThe High Plain of HeavenThe Plain of High Heaven — where the first kami came into being, where the gods hold council, and from which Amaterasu's line descended to rule the islands.Realm · JapaneseTir na nOgLand of the YoungThe land of the young — the Irish otherworld across the western sea where no one ages, and where a year away can cost a returning traveller three centuries.Realm · Celtic

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ValhallaHall of the SlainHall of the Slain. Odin's roof of shields where the chosen dead feast, fight, and are healed each night — an army kept in reserve for Ragnarok.Realm · Norse

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XibalbaPlace of Fear"Place of Fear" — the K'iche' Maya underworld of the Popol Vuh, a court of disease lords whose houses of trial the Hero Twins survived and overturned.Realm · Mayan

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YggdrasilThe World TreeThe World Tree. The great ash whose roots reach three wells and nine worlds, tended by the norns, eaten from every side, and still standing when the sky burns.Realm · NorseYomi (Yomi-no-Kuni)The Land of the DeadThe land of the dead in Japan's oldest myths: a polluted country reached by a slope in Izumo, sealed with a boulder, with no judgment and no return.Realm · Japanese