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otherworld
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Otherworld
The concept of an "otherworld" in historical
Indo-European religion
is reconstructed in
comparative mythology
. The term is a
calque
of
orbis alius
or "
Celtic Otherworld
", so named by
Lucan
in his description of the
druidic
doctrine of
metempsychosis
.
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