| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Arianrhod" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic earth goddess. Responsible for initiation of souls in the otherworld in the tower of Caer Sidi. Mentioned in the Mabinogion texts as the possible daughter of Beli, consort of DON and mother of LLEW LLAW GYFFES and Dylan.... |
| Goddess name "Belet-Seri" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic underworld goddess. The recorder of the dead entering the otherworld. Known as the Scribe of the earth.... |
| Goddess name "Cliodna" | Ireland / Scotland | Sea and Otherworld Goddess who usually took the form of a sea bird and therefore symbolized the Celtic afterlife. Ireland / Scotland |
"Coinchend" | Celtic | A semi-divine warrioress whose home was in the Otherworld. Celtic |
| God name "Donn" | Celtic / Irish | Chthonic underworld god. According to legend, he lives on an island to the southwest of Munster and is responsible for the påśśage of the dead toward the otherworld.... |
| God name "Havgan" | Welsh | Minor Welsh god who vied for the kingship of the Otherworld |
| Goddess name "Hel" | Germanic / Nordic / Icelandic | Chthonic underworld goddess. The daughter of LOKI and the giantess Angrboda, and the sibling of both the Midgard worm who will cause the sea to flood the world with the lashings of his tail, and of Fenrir, the phantom wolf who will swallow the Sun, at Ragnarok. She is queen of the otherworld, also known as Hell, and she takes command of all who die, except for heroes slain in battle, who ascend to Valhalla. In some mythologies she is depicted as half black and half white. She was adopted into British mythology.... |
| Goddess name "Kala-Bhadra" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor goddess of death. An auspicious attendant of funerals who is invoked in burial grounds in order to safeguard the påśśage of the dead to the otherworld. She is sometimes referred to as Karala-Bhadra.... |
| God name "Mac Da Tho" | Irish | God of the otherworld. Irish |
| God name "Manannan Mac Lir" | Ireland / Welsh / Scots | The god of the sea. He is often seen as a psychopomp, whose responsibility is to escort newly-deceased souls to the afterlife, and considered to have strong connections to the Otherworld islands of the dead, the weather, and the mists between the worlds. Ireland / Welsh / Scots |
| Goddess name "Nair" | Ireland | Goddess best known for escorting High king Crebhan to the Otherworld Ireland |
| God name "Ogiuwu" | Edo / Benin, West Africa | God of death. Believed to own the blood of all living things which he smears on the walls of his palace in the otherworld. Until recent times human sacrifice was made regularly to this deity in the capital of the Edo region, Benin City.... |
| King name "Pwyll" | Welsh | In the tale of Pwyll, the earliest reference to Annwn, the Welsh mythological otherworld, occurs. It is ruled by Arawn, at war with Hafgan. Arawn obtains the help of Pwyll by exchanging kingdoms with him for a year, and Pwyll defeats Hafgan. Welsh |
| God name "Rasnu" | Persian / Iran | God of påśśage and justice. The guardian of the bridge which leads to the otherworld. He weighs souls in the scales at the final judgment.... |
| God name "Zurvan" | Persian / Iran | God of temporal time and fate. Once the focus of a cult of Zervanism in which he appeared as the father of AHURA MAZDA, the god of light, and AHRIMAN, god of darkness, in Zoroastrianism. He is perceived as a god of destiny and the controller of all roads which mankind may take, leading ultimately to the otherworld. He was adopted into Manichaean religion. Also Zervan.... |
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