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Nearly 2000 years ago, the empire of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica embraced the symbolic centrality of snakes in creation myths, both revered and feared for their ability to traverse the boundaries between the natural world and the afterworld.
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Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
If my father's spirit wants to talk to me from the afterworld, then his spirit will have to be the one that reaches out.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
In the two-hour, 20-minute piece, Kahlo is summoned from the afterworld in 1957 by her dying husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who wants to see her once again on Dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when souls can return to the living world for 24 hours each Nov. 1.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
These attitudes slowly shifted around 2000 B.C., when commoners were also granted access to the afterworld as long as their body was mummified, and their valuables were placed into the tomb.
—Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
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Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
If my father's spirit wants to talk to me from the afterworld, then his spirit will have to be the one that reaches out.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
In the two-hour, 20-minute piece, Kahlo is summoned from the afterworld in 1957 by her dying husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who wants to see her once again on Dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when souls can return to the living world for 24 hours each Nov. 1.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
These attitudes slowly shifted around 2000 B.C., when commoners were also granted access to the afterworld as long as their body was mummified, and their valuables were placed into the tomb.
—Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterworld
Noun
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As a pure visual experience, the horror film is a genuine triumph, with production design that pulls you fully into the town’s horrific otherworld.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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In Mother of God, the reader is rooted in the material world, a world of objects, but there’s also a supernatural otherworld.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
23 Dec. 2025
Noun
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To be buried with a drum, perhaps, gave one an advantage in the afterlife.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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The alteration was discovered in a copy of the Book of the Dead (a tome filled with spells meant to aid the dead in their passage to the afterlife) that is believed to have been commissioned for a royal archive supervisor named Rambose.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The attack grants him immortality and an unquenchable taste for blood.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2026
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While this may confine a human’s dream of immortality to solutions that rely on technological enhancements, bio-hacking your body, or science-fiction level technology that relies on novel physical laws and/or phenomena, there’s still plenty that relativity has to say about living forever.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
12 Mar. 2026
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