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This is a '''list of mythological places''' which appear in mythological tales, folklore, and varying religious texts.
==Religion==
*[[Bethulia]] (Christianity, Bible / old testament)
==Egyptian mythology==
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| [[Aaru]] || The heavenly [[paradise]] often referred to as the Field Of Reeds, is an underworld realm where [[Osiris]] rules in ancient [[Egyptian mythology]].
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| [[Akhet (hieroglyph)|Akhet]] || An [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|hieroglyph]] that represents the sun rising over a mountain. It is translated as "[[horizon]]" or "the place in the sky where the sun rises".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Egyptian grammar : being an introduction to the study of hieroglyphs |last=Gardiner|first=Alan H.|date=1957|publisher=Published on behalf of the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, by Oxford University Press|isbn=9780900416354|edition=3rd|others=1969 printing|location=London|page=489|oclc=229894}}</ref>
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| [[Duat]] || The Underworld and abode of the dead in [[Ancient Egypt]]ian religion.
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| [[The Indestructibles]] || Two bright stars which, at that time, could always be seen circling the [[North Pole]] by ancient Egyptian astronomers.<ref name="SOL">{{cite web|url=http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Earth/AncientAstronomy.html|title=Space Today Online -- Solar System Planet Earth -- Ancient Astronomy
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| [[Land of Manu]] || Western abode of the
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| [[Nu (mythology)|Nu]]n || The primordial waters from which the [[Benben]] arose at the beginning of the universe, also considered to be a god Nu.
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| [[Arcadia (utopia)|Arcadia]] || A vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature, derived from the Greek province Arkadia which dates to antiquity.
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| [[Asphodel Meadows]] ||
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| [[Atlantis]] || The legendary (and almost archetypal) lost continent that was supposed to have sunk into the [[Atlantic Ocean]].
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| [[Cloud cuckoo land]] || A perfect city between the clouds in the play ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'' by [[Aristophanes]].
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| [[Chryse and Argyre]] || A pair of legendary islands, located in the [[Indian Ocean]] and said to be made of gold (chrysos) and silver (argyros).
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| [[Elysium]] (Elysian Fields) || In [[Greek mythology]], the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous.
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| [[Fortunate Isles]] (Islands of the Blessed) ||
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| [[Garden of the Hesperides]] ||
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| [[Hyperborea]] || Home of the Hyperboreans in the far north of Greece or southern Europe.
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| [[Laestrygon|Laistrygon]] || Home to a tribe of giant cannibals that Odysseus encountered on his way back home from the [[Trojan War]].
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| [[Mount Olympus]] || "Olympos" was the name of the home of the [[Twelve Olympians|Twelve Olympian gods]] of the ancient Greek world.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Nigel|title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon, England|date=31 October 2005|page=516}}</ref>
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| [[Nysa (mythology)|Nysa]] || A beautiful valley full of [[nymphs]]
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| [[Oceanus#Geography|Okeanos]] || The cosmic river encircling the Earth in Ancient Greek cosmology, also sometimes depicted as one of the Titan gods.
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| [[Panchaia (island)|Panchaia]]
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| [[Tartarus|Tartaros]] ||
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| [[Themiscyra (mythology)|Themiskyra]] || The capital city of the [[Amazons]] in [[Greek mythology]].
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| The Underworld || Comprising the realms of The Elysium Fields, The Asphodel Meadows and Tartaros.
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| [[Yggdrasil]] || An immense and central [[Sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology|sacred tree]] in [[Norse cosmology]].
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==Polynesian and Māori mythology==
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| Rarohenga || A [[Māori mythology|Māori]] spirit world for those who favor [[Rangi and Papa|Papatūānuku]] The Earth Mother.
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| Toi O Nga Rangi || The Māori spirit world for those who favor [[Rangi and Papa|Ranginui]] The Sky Father. Sometimes known as the Sky World or the Summit Of The Heavens
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| Ao || The [[Polynesian culture|Polynesian]] realm of light.
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| Te Po || Polynesian realm of darkness and ancestors.
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| [[Hawaiki]] || A mostly universal belief among [[Oceania|Oceanian]] cultures of a realm where all Polynesians descend. Not to be confused with the Islands of [[Hawaiian Islands|Hawaii]].
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| [[Cape Reinga]]/Te Rerenga Wairua || Believed by Māori to be the place where spirits are required to journey through to reach the afterlife.
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==Indian
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| [[Agartha]] || A legendary city located at
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| [[Amaravati (mythology)|Amaravati]] ||
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| [[Ayotha Amirtha Gangai]] || An important river in [[Ayyavazhi mythology]].
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| [[Brahmapura|Brahmaloka]] || The abode of [[Brahma]], the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] god of creation.
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| [[Himavanta]] || A legendary forest that locates at the hill of
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| [[Jambudvīpa]] || Name for the terrestrial universe in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions.
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|[[Mount Kailash|Kailasha]]
|The celestial abode of [[Shiva]].
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| [[Ketumati]] || A [[pure land]] belonging to [[Maitreya]] within [[Buddhism]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Kim |first=Inchang |title=The Future Buddha Maitreya: An Iconological Study |url={{GBurl|id=jikLAAAAYAAJ}} |publisher=D.K. Printworld |year=1996 |page=21}}</ref>
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|[[Kshira Sagara]]
| [[Mount Meru]] || The sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology. It is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes. ▼
|A divine ocean of milk in Hindu mythology.
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|[[Manidvipa]]
| [[Naraka]] || A realm resembling Hell in [[Dharmic religions]] where souls are temporarily punished before [[reincarnation]].▼
|The abode of the supreme goddess in Hinduism.
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|[[Mount Mandara]]
| [[Nirvana]] || The ultimate state of soteriological release (liberation from repeated rebirth) commonly associated with Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. ▼
|A sacred mountain mentioned in the [[Puranas]].
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▲| [[Mount Meru]] || The sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology. It is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes.
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▲| [[Naraka]] || A realm resembling Hell in [[Dharmic religions|Indian religions]] where souls are temporarily punished before [[reincarnation]].
| [[Samavasarana]] || Meeting place of the [[tirthankara]]s in Jainism.▼
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▲| [[Nirvana]] || The ultimate state of soteriological release (liberation from repeated rebirth) commonly associated with Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.
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|[[Patala]]
|The netherworld of Indian religions.
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▲| [[Samavasarana]] || Meeting place of the [[tirthankara]]s in [[Jainism]].
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| [[Sanzu River]] || A mythological river in [[Buddhism in Japan|Japanese Buddhism]].
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| [[Shakdvipa|Shakadvipa]] || A land mass west of the [[Ural Mountains]] in [[Hindu mythology]].
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| [[Shambhala]] || In [[Tibetan Buddhist]] tradition, a kingdom hidden somewhere in the [[Himalayas]]; [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophists]] regard it as the home on the [[etheric plane]] of the governing [[deity]] of
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| [[Siddhashila]] || The place where souls who have escaped the cycle of [[reincarnation]] and attained [[moksha]] go according to the cosmology of [[Jainism]].
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▲| [[Shambhala]] || In [[Tibetan Buddhist]] tradition, a kingdom hidden somewhere in the [[Himalayas]]; [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophists]] regard it as the home on the [[etheric plane]] of the governing [[deity]] of our planet, [[Sanat Kumara]].
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| [[Tripura (mythology)|Tripura]] || three cities or fortresses, is described in Hindu history as being constructed by the great Asura architect Mayasura
▲| [[Svarga]] || A celestial realm of bliss in Hinduism.
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| [[Thuvaraiyam Pathi]] || In
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| [[Trāyastriṃśa]] || An important world of the [[Deva (Buddhism)|devas]] in the [[Buddhist cosmology]].
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|[[Urdhva lokas|Urdhvaloka]]
|Seven upper worlds mentioned in the Puranas.
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| [[Uttarakuru]] ||
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| [[Vaikuntha]] ||
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| [[Fusang]] || A mysterious land to the east in Chinese legends.
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| [[Jade Mountain (mythology)|Jade Mountain]] || A mythological mountain in [[Chinese mythology]] and the residence of [[Xiwangmu|The Queen Mother of the West]].<ref name=Yang>{{cite book|last1=Yang|first1=Lihui|display-authors=etal|date=2005|title=Handbook of Chinese Mythology|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-533263-6}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=gGD5go6iCUYC&
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| [[Kunlun Mountain (mythology)|Kunlun Mountain]] || A place where immortals lived according to Chinese mythology.
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| [[Red River (mythology)|Red River]] || One of the mythological rivers said to flow from [[Kunlun (mythology)|Kunlun]], a mythological land, with mountainous features.
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| [[Shangri-La]] || A mystical, harmonious valley enclosed in the western end of the [[Kunlun Mountains]], described in the 1933 novel ''[[Lost Horizon]]'' by English author [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]].
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| [[Weak River (mythology)|Weak River]] || One of the mythological rivers flowing near [[Kunlun (mythology)|Kunlun]], home of a Western Paradise.
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==Abrahamic
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| [[As-Sirāt]] || The bridge which every human must pass on the [[Day of Resurrection|Yawm al-Qiyamah]] ("Day of Resurrection") to enter [[Jannah|Paradise]] according to [[Islam]].
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| [[Barzakh]] || A place separating the living from the [[hereafter]] or a phase/"stage" between an individual's death and their resurrection in "the Hereafter".<ref>Jane Dammen McAuliffe Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān Volume 1 Georgetown University, Washington DC p. 205
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| [[Brig of Dread]] || A bridge to [[Purgatory]] that a dead [[Soul (spirit)|soul]] had to cross.
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| [[Hell]] || In some [[Abrahamic religions]], a realm in the afterlife in which evil souls are punished after death.
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| [[Iram of the Pillars]] || The [[lost city]] mentioned in the [[Quran]].
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| [[Nbu]] || The [[Mandaeism|Mandaic]] name for the planet [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]].
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| [[Pandæmonium (Paradise Lost)|Pandæmonium]]|| The capital of Hell in John Milton's ''[[Paradise Lost]]''.
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| [[Piriawis]] || The sacred life-giving river (''[[yardna]]'') of the [[World of Light]] in [[Mandaean cosmology]].
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| [[Siniawis]] || A region in the [[World of Darkness (Mandaeism)|World of Darkness]] or [[underworld]].<ref name="Buckley 2002">{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=Jorunn Jacobsen|title=The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people|publisher=Oxford University Press|publication-place=New York|year=2002|isbn=0-19-515385-5|oclc=65198443}}</ref>
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| [[Yardna]] || A body of flowing [[fresh water]] that is suitable for ritual use as baptismal water in [[Mandaeism]].<ref>''The Gnostic Bible'' (2003) (p. 810). New Seeds Books</ref>
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| [[Mag Mell]] || A mythical underworld plain in Irish mythology, achievable only through death or glory. Meaning 'plains of joy', Mag Mell was a hedonistic and pleasurable paradise, usually associated with the sea.
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| [[Rocabarraigh]] || A [[phantom island]]
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| [[Tech Duinn]] || A mythological island to the west of [[Ireland]] where souls go after death.
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| [[Tír fo Thuinn]] || A [[Celtic Otherworld]] in [[Irish mythology]], a kingdom under the sea.
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| [[Tír na nÓg]] || The [[Celtic Otherworld]] in [[Irish mythology]].
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| [[Abya Yala]] || "saved land", is the name used by the Guna people.
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| Adiri || Afterlife in [[Kiwai Island|Kiwai]] mythology.{{sfn|Leech|1984|p=10}}
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| Alomkik || A place accessible to the [[Abenaki]] peoples' mythological protector [[Pamola]], where he holds those who trespass on Maine's [[Mount Katahdin]].
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| [[al-Wakwak]] || Island of tree growing little children.
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| [[Axis mundi]] || The center of the world or the connection between [[Heaven]] and Earth in various religions and mythologies.
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| [[Baltia]] || An island of amber somewhere in [[northern Europe]].
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| [[Biringan city]] || A mythical city that is said to invisibly lie between [[Gandara, Samar|Gandara]], [[Tarangnan, Samar|Tarangnan]], and [[Pagsanghan, Samar|Pagsanghan]] in [[Samar]] province of the [[Philippines]]. Biringan means "the black city" or the
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| [[Brittia]] || A mythical island off the coast of [[Austrasia]].
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| [[Domdaniel]] || Cavernous hall at the bottom of the ocean where evil magicians, spirits, and gnomes meet.
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| [[El Dorado (myth)|El Dorado]] || Rumored city of gold in [[South America]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/el-dorado/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101118061259/http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/el-dorado |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 18, 2010 |title=El Dorado |website=National Geographic}}</ref>
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| [[Fountain of Youth]] || A place, detailed in many legends around the world, where one may drink of or bathe in its waters to restore their youth.
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| [[Fiddler's Green]] || In 19th-century English maritime folklore, it was a kind of after-life for sailors who had served at least fifty years at sea.
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| [[Hara Berezaiti]] || A legendary mountain around which the stars and planets revolve from the ancient [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] scriptures of the [[Avesta]].
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| [[Yomotsu Hirasaka]] || A slope or boundary between this world, where the living live, and the other world, where the dead live ([[Yomi]]).
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| [[Zabag (ancient territory)|Zabag]] ||
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