Arielle Rae wrote: “Here is a list of examples considered as a legendary place, with a brief description. Feel free to add some more :)”nn’ + $(‘comment_body_usertext’).value;new Effect.Highlight(‘comment_body_usertext’)” class=”smallText” href=”#comment_form”>reply | flag *
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Agartha – A legendary city at the Earth”s core.Alfheim – Land of elves in Norse mythology.Annwn – The “otherworld” of Welsh mythology.Asgard – The high placed city of the gods, built by Odin chief god of the Norse pantheon.Asphodel Meadows – In Greek mythology, the section of the underworld where ordinary souls were sent to live after death.Atlantis – The legendary (and almost archetypal) lost continent that was supposed to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.Avalon – Legendary Island of Apples, believed by some to be the final resting place of King Arthur.Axis Mundi – The center of the world or the connection between Heaven and Earth in various religions and mythologies.Ayotha Amirtha Gangai – An important river in Ayyavazhi mythology.Aztlan – Legendary original homeland of the Mexica people in Mexica/Aztec mythology.Biarmaland – A mighty kingdom described in Norse sagas which lies to the north of Russia.Brasil or Hy-Brasil – A mythical island to the west of Ireland.Camelot – The city in which King Arthur reigned.City of the Caesars – A city between a mountain of gold and another of diamonds supposed to be situated in Patagonia.Cloud cuckoo land – A perfect city between the clouds in the play The Birds by Aristophanes.Cockaigne – In medieval mythology, it is a land of plenty where want does not exist.El Dorado – Rumored city of gold in South America.Elysian Fields – In Greek mythology, the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous.Garden of the Hesperides – In Greek mythology, the sacred garden of Hera from where the gods got their immortality.Garden of Eden – The garden of God, described in the Book of Genesis.Hawaiki – The ancestral island of the Polynesians, particularly the Māori.Heaven – The realm in Abrahamic mythology, in which pious people who have died continue to exist in an afterlife.Hel – Underworld in Norse mythologyHell – The underworld in Abrahamic mythology, in which evil or unrepentant people are punished after death.Hyperborea – A land to the north in Greek mythology.Irkalla – The underworld from which there is no return in Babylonian mythology.Islands of the Blessed – In Greek mythology, a paradise reserved for the souls of the great heroes.Jotunheim – Land of the giants in Norse mythology.Kingdom of Reynes – A country mentioned in the Middle English romance King Horn.Kingdom of Saguenay – According to the French, an Iroquoian story of a kingdom of blonde men rich in gold and fur that existed in northern Canada prior to French colonization.Kolob – An astronomical body (star or planet) said to be near the throne of God in Mormon cosmology.Kvenland – Land next to Sweden at the northern shores of Baltic sea, probably ancient Finland or some of its parts.Kyöpelinvuori -(Finnish for ghosts” mountain), in Finnish mythology, is the place which dead women haunt.Lemuria – A hypothetical “lost land” variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.Lyonessw – A country in Arthurian legend, which is said to border Cornwall in England.Mag Mell or Tir na nÓg – The afterworld of Irish mythology.Meropis – A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato”s Atlantis.Mictlan – The afterworld of the Mexica.Mount Olympus – In Greek mythology the mountain is referred to as “home of the gods”, specifically the Twelve Olympians.Mu – A hypothetical continent that allegedly disappeared at the dawn of human history.Muspelheim – Land of fire in Norse mythology.Nibiru – A mythological planet described by the Babylonians.Niflheim – World of cold in Norse mythology.Niflhel – Cold underworld in Norse mythology.Norumbega – A legendary settlement in northeastern North America, connected with attempts to demonstrate Viking incursions in New England.Nysa – A beautiful valley full of nymphs in Greek mythology.Pandæmonium – The capital of Hell in John Milton”s Paradise LostPurgatory – In some Abrahamic religions, a place where impure souls of those who die are made ready for Heaven.Quivira and Cíbola – Two of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold supposed by Spanish conquistadors to have existed in the Americas.Shambhala – In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a kingdom hidden somewhere in the Himalayas; Theosophists regard it as the home on the etheric plane of the governing deity of our planet Sanat Kumara.Shangri-La – A mystical, harmonious valley enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.Suddene – A country found in the Middle English romance King Horn.Summerland – The name given by Theosophists, Wiccans and some earth-based contemporary pagan religions to their conceptualization of an (mostly pastoral) afterlife.Svartálfaheimr – The land of the Dark Elves in Norse mythology.Tartarus – in Greek mythology, a pit in the underworld for condemned souls.Takama-ga-hara – The dwelling place of the Shinto kami.Themiscyra – the capital city of the Amazons in Greek mythology.Thule – An island somewhere in the belt of Scandinavia, northern Great Britain, Iceland, and Greenland.Thuvaraiyam Pathi – In Ayyavazhi mythology, it was a sunken island some 150 miles off the south coast of India.Valhalla (from Old Norse Valhöll “hall of the slain”)- is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god Odin.Westernesse – A country found in the Middle English romance King Horn.Ys – A city located in Brittany, France that was supposedly built below sea level, and destroyed when the Devil destroyed the dam protecting it.Xibalba – The underworld in Mayan mythology.