Death in Arabia & Islam
Practices & Customs Death is no stranger to any culture. However, the ways in which we reflect on, lament, and at times, venerate, the dead varies globally. Arabia is often…
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Exploring death traditions from around the world.
Five Places You Might Go If You Died and Went to the Norse Afterlife
No part of the Norse afterlife is more famous than Valhalla. You can find it in the Marvel universe, it’s referred to in shows like Vikings and The Last Kingdom, it’s the subject of many heavy metal songs (one of my personal favorites is Judas Priest’s “Halls of Valhalla” from the Redeemer of Souls album), and you can read about it in books by Rick Riordan and Neil Gaiman, among others.