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(Note: this includes guardian-type creatures, ghosts, and spirits such as demons, veli, and Cerberus)Fictional underworlds
- The setting for the Heroes in Hell shared world series of Bangsian Fantasy works by Janet Morris, C. J. Cherryh and others.
- The location of the captive Prince Rilian in The Silver Chair, of C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series, is the Underland.
- The evil Outer Planes of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
- The Netherworld of the Playstation 2 videogame and other games of the series.
- The Underwhere in Super Paper Mario, where people whose "games have ended" go to.
- A place in the Prophecies campaign of the Guild Wars videogame series.
- A representation of hell in the Mortal Kombat videogame series, known as the Netherrealm.
- Underworld is the title of a Doctor Who story based on the legend of the Golden Fleece
- Karzahni, where poor Matoran workers were sent before Mata Nui's coming in the Bionicle mythos.
- In the television series Charmed, The Underworld was the residence of evil beings.
- From Star Trek, Gre'thor and Fek'lhr appear in Klingon mythology.
- In the television series , reside in a world which appears to be quite literally under the surface of the earth. Nevertheless, several ghoulish characters —such as Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Mummies and even someone very similar to Frankenstein's monster — act as primary residents (this version of the Underworld is more similar to Hades or Hell).
- Underworld (2003 film), directed by Len Wiseman and starring Kate Beckinsale about a war between vampires and werewolves. There was also a sequel - (2006).
Hades (from Greek Άδης, Hadēs, originally Άιδης, Haidēs or Άΐδης
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- For non-Buddhist uses of the term Naraka, see Naraka.
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Naraka is the Sanskrit word for the underworld; literally, of man. According to Hinduism and Buddhism, Naraka is a place of torment, or Hell.
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Jahannam (Arabic: جهنم)(in Turkish: cehennem) is the Islamic equivalent to Gei Hinnom. Its name is similar to the Hebrew word Gehinnom, from which it derives.
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Gehenna (or gehenom or gehinom (גהינום)) is the Jewish hell or purgatory. It has sometimes been described as a final punishment for the wicked and sometimes as a spiritual forge in which souls are purified after death.
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Annwn or Annwfn (Middle Welsh Annwvn, sometimes inaccurately written Annwyn, Annwyfn or Annwfyn) was the Otherworld, the land of souls that had departed this world in Welsh mythology.
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Diyu (Traditional Chinese: 地獄; Simplified Chinese: 地狱
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Duat (or Tuat) (also called Akert, Amenthes, or Neter-khertet) is the underworld.
This was the region through which the sun god Ra traveled from west to east during the night, and where he battled Apep.
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This was the region through which the sun god Ra traveled from west to east during the night, and where he battled Apep.
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Gehenna (or gehenom or gehinom (גהינום)) is the Jewish hell or purgatory. It has sometimes been described as a final punishment for the wicked and sometimes as a spiritual forge in which souls are purified after death.
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Hades (from Greek Άδης, Hadēs, originally Άιδης, Haidēs or Άΐδης
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In Norse mythology, the realm Hel[1] shares a name with its ruler, Hel. As described in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda it is a place thronged with the shivering and shadowy spectres of those who have died
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Jahannam (Arabic: جهنم)(in Turkish: cehennem) is the Islamic equivalent to Gei Hinnom. Its name is similar to the Hebrew word Gehinnom, from which it derives.
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Limbo (Latin limbus, edge or boundary, referring to the "edge" of Hell) is the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the damned (gehenna).
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Naraka is the Sanskrit word for the underworld; literally, of man. According to Hinduism and Buddhism, Naraka is a place of torment, or Hell.
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Purgatory, or "the final purification of the elect", is the process by which, according to Catholic doctrine, "all who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as
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In Hebrew, ²² Sheol (שאול, Sh'ol) is the "abode of the dead", the "underworld", "the common grave of humankind" or "pit".
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Tartarus, or Tartaros (Greek Τάρταρος, deep place). It is either a deep, gloomy place, a pit or abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides within Hades or the entire underworld with Hades being the hellish
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Yomi (黄泉), the Japanese word for the underworld in which horrible creatures guard the exits; according to Shinto mythology as related in Kojiki, this is where the dead go to dwell and apparently rot indefinitely.
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Developer's Image Library or DevIL (originally called OpenIL; the name was changed at a request from Silicon Graphics, Inc.), started by Denton Woods, is a cross-platform image library which aims to provide a common API for different image file format.
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The Harrowing of Hell is a doctrine in Christian theology referenced in the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed (Quicumque vult), which states that Jesus "descended into Hell".
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In Christianity, the outer darkness is a place referred to three times in the Gospel of Matthew (8:12, 22:13, and 25:30) into which a person may be "cast out", and where there is "weeping and gnashing of teeth".
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The word mythology (from the Greek μύθολογία mythología, from μυθολογείν mythologein
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religion is a set of common beliefs and practices generally held by a group of people, often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience.
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The afterlife, or life after death, are generic terms referring to survivalism, a "continuation" of existence, typically spiritual, experiential, or ghost-like, beyond this world (eg. planes of existence), or after physical death (eg. near-death experience, reincarnation).
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The Dead may refer to:
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- The dead, those who have died
- Grateful Dead, an American rock band formed in 1965
- The Dead (band), a rock band comprised of former members of the Grateful Dead
- The Dead (short story), a short story by James Joyce
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The Aztec civilization recognized a polytheistic mythology, which contained the many gods and supernatural creatures from their religious beliefs.
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