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otherworld
thumb|Illustration depicting otherworld in Celtic mythology by Stephen Reid in [[T. W. Rolleston's The High Deeds of Finn (1910).]]
In historical Indo-European religion, the concept of an otherworld, also known as an otherside, is reconstructed in comparative mythology. Its name is a calque of orbis alius (Latin for "other world/side"), a term used by Lucan in his description of the Celtic Otherworld.
Celtic Otherworld
realm of the deities in Celtic mythology