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   ocr: Exit To: select the letter (Maset T Taticani Hell Inl Pagan belief, the underworld was considered a place beyond the tomb. In Christianity, the underworid, or Hell, is the place of punishment for the souls of sinners. The idea ofa world beyond the grave situated below ground was initially derived by association - corpses are buried below the ground. Later, in Roman times, it assumed a cosmological W dimension as referring to the lower X part ofthe universe where not, just the dead but the gods ofthe dead were to be found. Z In the Hebrew tradition, the idea of an afterlife was vague. Initially ...