world of the dead
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The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman Lyra and Will’s journey to the land of the dead is very like a journey to Hades, the ancient world of the dead.
From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2015
Orpheus also voyaged to the world of the dead to seek for his dead wife, just as Lyra journeys there to rescue Roger.
From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2015
Unlike the ghost in a horror story, Macdonald’s hawk will not drag her into the world of the dead.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2015
You enter the ancient Roman world of the dead through a small unmarked steel door next to the Vatican's telephone exchange.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2013
Demeter did not refuse, poor comfort though it was that she must lose Persephone for four months every year and see her young loveliness go down to the world of the dead.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
