lower world
Domain of death
The lower world is the realm of the dead in various mythologies and religions—Hades, Sheol, the underworld.
By extension, it refers to earth as opposed to heaven, or to the hidden criminal element of society: He moved through the lower world of smugglers and thieves.
The term carries a sense of descent, darkness, or moral degradation.
- cavernLarge natural underground chamber
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- HadesGreek afterlife realm
- river StyxUnderworld's boundary waters
- darknessTotal absence of light
tunnel · pit · Dante's Inferno · shadow self · inner demons · primal instincts · Helheim · Sheol · chasm · worm · gates of hell · subconscious · Tartarus · grotto · gloom · mine · tomb · repression
- UnderworldHades, Tartarus, netherworld, Sheol, Styx
- ancient religiongods, goddesses, pantheon, deity, polytheism
- other realmsotherworld, netherworld, shadow realm, dream realm, alternate reality
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Realm above the underworld
heaven · celestial realm · celestial paradise · heavens · celestial sphere
lower worldparadise
Ideal, blissful place
heaven · Kingdom of Heaven · Elysium · Valhalla · Elysian Fields
lower, world, low, lowly, lowness, lowers, lowered, lowering, lowest