The realms of the dead of the peoples of the Americas, Africa and the Pacific: the Maya Xibalba, the Aztec Mictlan, the Tongan Pulotu, the Maori Rarohenga, the Kongo Kalunga and the Inuit Adlivun. A realm belongs here when its cited article describes a land of the dead of one of these peoples. It excludes Eurasian underworlds. Examples in the atlas include Xibalba, Mictlan, Pulotu, Rarohenga and Kalunga.
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Adlivun (Wikipedia)
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In Inuit religion, Adlivun (those who live beneath us, from at ~ al below, -lirn in a certain direction, -vun possessive first person plural; also known as Idliragijenget) are the spirits of the departed who reside in the underworld, and by extension the underworld itself, located beneath the land and the sea.
Kalûnga Line (Wikipedia)
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The Kalûnga Line is a foundational concept in West-Central African Bantu cosmologies-most prominently within Ambundu (Kimbundu speakers), Kongo, and Chokwe traditions-referring both to Kalûnga as the Supreme God (the infinite source of life and creation) and to the watery, energetic boundary separating the land of the living (Ku Nseke) from the spiritual realm of deceased ancestors (Ku Mpemba or Kalunga).
Mictlān (Wikipedia)
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Mictlan (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈmikt͡ɬaːn]) is the underworld of Aztec mythology.
Rarohenga (Wikipedia)
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Rarohenga is the subterranean realm where spirits of the deceased dwell after death, according to Māori oral tradition.
Xibalba (Wikipedia)
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Xibalba (Mayan pronunciation: [ʃiɓalˈɓa]), roughly translated as "place of fright", is the Kʼicheʼ name of the Underworld (known as Mitnal in Yucatec) in Maya mythology, ruled by the Maya death gods and their helpers.
Pulotu (Wikipedia)
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Pulotu is the resting place of those passed on in the Polynesian narrative of Tonga and Samoa, the world of darkness "lalo fonua" (as opposed to the human world of light).
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