[[space]] of [[death]] # PIE Otherworld [[death-bridge]] [[hell-hound]] ## By Light Quantity ### Bright [[heaven-bright-otherworld-paradise]] [[islands-isles-of-the-blest]] ### Dark [[hell-dark-underworld-realm-of-dead-afterlife]] ## d [[otherworld-journey-travellers]] Land of the Dead [[dotson2018]] - The "Otherworld" is the [world](space.md) (i.e. physical location) to which souls travel to after they die. As such it is both a spatial and temporal state of being. - In the PIE worldview, it can be located in various places. Originally it was located [under ground](world.md). ## By Branch [[celtic-otherworld]] ## Rivers [[ifing]] ## Location > "...located at the end of the earth and of the ocean, or at a great distance outside the boundaries of the familiar world of the living." {[[giannakis2003]]:10} ## External Links [Wikipedia: Proto-Indo-European-mythology#Otherworld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European-mythology#Otherworld) [Wikipedia: Otherworld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld)