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In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly dead souls go.

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Aztec mythologyMictlan
Babylonian mythologyKurnugia
BuddhismNaraka (also Niraya)
Celtic mythologyAnnwn, Mag Mell
Chinese mythologyDiyu (地獄)
Christian mythologyHades, Heaven, Hell, Limbo, Paradise, Purgatory
Egyptian mythologyAaru, Anubis, Duat, Neter-khertet
Estonian mythologyToonela
Fijian mythologysee Melanesian mythology.
Finnish mythologyTuonela
Greek mythology:
Main article: Greek underworld
Elysium, Hades, Tartarus
Hebrew BibleSheol, Gehenna
HinduismAmaravati, Bhogavati, Naraka, Soma, Svarga
Inca mythologyUku Pacha
Inuit mythologyAdlivun
IslamJahannam, Narr, Jannah, Barzakh, Araf
Japanese mythologyYomi
Latvian mythologyAizsaule
Mapuche mythologyPellumawida, Degin, Wenuleufu, Ngullchenmaiwe
Mayan mythologyMetnal, Xibalba
Melanesian mythology(includes Fijian) Bulu, Burotu, Murimuria, Nabangatai, Tuma
Norse mythologyGimlé, Hel, Niflheim, Valhalla, Vingólf
Oromo mythologyEkera
Philippine mythologyKasanaan, Empiyerno
Polynesian mythologyAvaiki, Bulotu, Iva, Lua-o-Milu, Nga- Atua, Pulotu, Rangi Tuarea, Te Toi-o-nga-Ranga, Uranga-o-Te-Ra
Pueblo mythologyShipap
Roman mythologyAvernus, Hades, Pluto (mythology)
Slavic mythologyPeklo
Sumerian mythologyDilmun, Kur, Ki-Gal
VodunGuinee
Wagawaga mythologyHiyoyoa

Rulers of the Underworld

(Note: this includes guardian-type creatures, ghosts, and spirits such as demons, veli, and Cerberus)

Aboriginal mythologyBaiame (Kamilaroi), Eingana
Akkadian mythologyAllu, Anu, Anunnaku, Ereshkigal, Etemmu, Gallu, Humbaba, Mamitu, Nergal, Utnapishtim
Albanian mythologyE Bukura e Dheut
Armenian mythologySpandaramat
Aztec mythologyMictlantecuhtli, Mictecacihuatl, Chalmecacihuilt, Chalmecatl
Babylonian mythologyErra, Nergal, Ninlil, Sursunabu, Ur-shanabi, Utnapishtim
Balinese mythologyBatara Kala, Setesuyara
Bon mythologygNyan
BuddhismYama, Emma-O-, Yanluo
Canaanite mythologyMot
Celtic mythologyArawn, Bean Sidhe, Cernunnos, Cw^n Annwn, Gwyn ap Nudd, Latiaran, Manannan mac Lir, Midir, Morrigan, Niamh, Pwyll, Sluagh, Tethra
Chinese mythologyGu(i, Yanluo
Christian mythologyAngels, Demons, Devil, God, Michael, Saint Peter
Egyptian mythologyAken, Aker (strictly only the gatekeeper), Am-heh, Amunet, Ammit, Andjety, Anubis, Apep, Apis, Astennu, Ha, Imiut (if the Imiut was ever considered a god), Isis, Mehen, Naunet, Nehebkau, Nephthys, Nun, Nut, Osiris, Ptah, Seker, Thoth
Elamite mythologyJabru
Etruscan mythologyCharun, Culsu, Februus, Mania, Mantus, Nethuns, Tuchulcha, Vanth
Finnish mythologyKalma, Kipu-Tyttö, Kivutar, Lovitar, Surma, Tuonen akka, Tuonetar, Tuoni, Vammatar
Greek mythologyCerberus, Charon, Hades, Keres, Persephone, Styx, Thanatos
Haida mythologyTa'xet, Tia
Hinduismasuras, Bali, Chitragupta, devas, Durga, Naga (mythology), Rudra, Soma, Varuna, Vivasvat, Yama
Hopi mythologyKachina
Ibo mythologyAla
Incan mythologySupay, Vichama
Indonesian mythologyDewi Shri, Ndara
Inuit mythologyPana, Sedna
Islamic MythologyHafaza, Huri, Ifrit, Jinn, Mala'ikah, Peri
Japanese mythologyHisa-Me, Hotoke, Ika-Zuchi-no-Kami, Jikininki, Shiko-Me, Shiti Dama, Shi-Ryo
Kassite mythologyDur
Khmer mythologyPreas Eyssaur
Latvian mythologyVeli, Velu mate, Zemes mate
Levantine mythologyMot
Lunda mythologyKalunga
Maya mythologyXibalba
Melanesian mythology(includes Fijian mythology) Degei, Ratumaibulu, Samulayo
Narragansett mythologyChepi
Navaho mythologyEstanatelhi
Niquiran mythologyMictanteot
Norse mythologyGarm, Hel, Ran
Orokolo mythologyKiavari
Persian mythologyAzhi Dahaka, Peri
Philippine mythologyDemonyo
Phoenician mythologyHoron
Phrygian mythologyMen
Polynesian mythologyHikuleo, Hina, Hine-nui-te-Po, Kanaloa, Kiho, Makea Tutara, Mahiuki, Mahu-ike, Marama, Mauri, Merau, Milu, Miru, Rimu, Rohe (mythology), Whiro
Prussian mythologyPicullus
Pueblo mythologyIyatiku
Roma (Gypsy) mythology
Roman mythologyCerberus, Dea Tacita, Dis Pater, Egestes, Fames, Inferi Dii, Larenta, Letum, Libitina, Mors, Pluto, Proserpina, Viduus
Russian mythologyBaba Yaga, Koshchei
Saami mythologyYambe-akka
Salish mythologyAmotken
Siberian mythologyChebeldei, Kul
Slavic mythologyCrnobog, Flins, Marzana, Nyia
Sumerian mythologyEdimmu, Ekimmu, Endukugga, Enmesarra, Ereshkigal, Gidim, Gula, Irkalla, Kur, Namtar, Nergal, Neti, Nindukugga, Ninlil, Urshanabi, Ziusudra
Syrian mythologyReshep
Tamil mythologyCur
VodunBaron Cimetière, Baron La Croix, Baron Samedi, Ghede, Maman Brigitte, Marassa Jumeaux
Wagawaga mythologyTumudurere
Yoruba mythologyOya
Yurak mythologyNga
Zuni mythologyUhepono

Fictional underworlds

This has influenced several gothic fiction texts.
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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Diyu (Traditional Chinese: 地獄; Simplified Chinese: 地狱
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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.

Hinduism

Naraka or Neraka in Hinduism, is compared to the Abrahamic concept of 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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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.

Hinduism

Naraka or Neraka in Hinduism, is compared to the Abrahamic concept of 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 Aztec civilization recognized a polytheistic mythology, which contained the many gods and supernatural creatures from their religious beliefs.

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Aztec culture is generally grouped with the cultural complex known as the Nahua
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