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* Myth/CelticMythology generally has the gods living in the Otherworld. The Irish called it Tir na nOg. It's accessible through "thin places" where the two places meet. Thin places can be found in various hills and mounds, beneath the sea, or traveling through a magical mist. It's also more accessible at certain times, like dawn or dusk, or Samhain and Beltine, solstices, etc.

* Myth/CelticMythology generally has the gods living in the Otherworld. The Irish called it Tir na nOg, and the Welsh called it Annwn. Because of how the mythology evolved in response to the advent of Christianity, Otherworld got reinterpreted as a LandOfFaerie, and the name it's better known by today is Avalon.

* Mt. Olympus is this in Myth/ClassicalMythology. There's a unique twist in that it is indeed a real mountain in Greece, and nothing's stopping you from going for a hike on it (provided you're careful not to break any preservation laws). Presumably all those gods moved at some point.

-> ''"With that the bright-eyed goddess sped away to Olympus, where they say the gods’ eternal mansion stands unmoved, never rocked by galewinds, never drenched by rains, nor do the drifting snows assail it. No, the clear air stretches away without a cloud, and a great radiance plays across the world, where the blithe gods live all their days in bliss."''

* In Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos, the weak (as in, their physical abilities and toughness are barely superhuman barring their basic unaging immortality; mortals with enough wits, or even guns, could kill them easily enough) gods of Earth, sometimes called the Great Ones, dwell in the city of Unknown Kadath, which is most likely in the remote northernmost reaches of Earth's Dreamlands. Given how weak said gods are, it's a good thing that they and their city are so isolated, and under the protection of the Outer Gods. [[CosmicHorrorStory Or maybe not...]]
* The major gods of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' live in Dunmanifestin, their city at the top of Cori Celesti, a ridiculously tall mountain at the center of their (disc-shaped, duh) world. There they spend their time playing games with the lives of mortals. It appears in ''Literature/TheLastHero'' as a vast structure of conflicting architectural styles, the gods coming from various different cultures, and also having zero taste.
* The existence of Thor had been a RunningGag in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' "trilogy", and we finally get to see Asgard in ''Literature/AndAnotherThing''. It's encased in a ball of ice and to get in, you have to get by Heimdall (who can have photon torpedoes rain on you with a gesture, or make you go on quests if he feels like it), and inside it's full of various wonders like the Fountain of Youth, along with some very dissatisfied zombie Vikings working maintenance jobs.

-> ''"With that the bright-eyed goddess [Athena] sped away to Olympus, where they say the gods’ eternal mansion stands unmoved, never rocked by galewinds, never drenched by rains, nor do the drifting snows assail it. No, the clear air stretches away without a cloud, and a great radiance plays across the world, where the blithe gods live all their days in bliss."''

* In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, Asgard is the home of several people who were worshipped by the Vikings as Gods. It's a WorldInTheSky the size of a metropolitan region, accessible to other planets through the Bifrost PortalNetwork.

* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'' gives us Aman. This is where the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Valar]] live, but they also invite the Elves to join them when they become weary of Middle-earth, and in some exceptional cases they'll invite some others, like Frodo. On the westernmost part of Aman are the Halls of Mandos, basically the afterlife for Elves, where they wait until [[GodOfTheDead Mandos]] permits them to reincarnate back to the land of the living. (Men, on the other hand, leave Arda completely after they die. Where they go afterwards [[{{God}} Eru]] only knows, but it is implied to be the actual Heaven or something like it.) Originally, Aman was just a continent on Arda much like Middle-earth is, but when the Númenoreans attempted to sail the sea to reach it, Eru made the world round and cut off Aman from the rest of it, and now it can only be accessed by a "Straight Road" known only to the Elves.

* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'' gives us Aman. This is where the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Valar]] live, but they also invite the Elves to join them when they become weary of Middle-earth, and in some exceptional cases they'll invite some others, like Frodo. On the westernmost part of Aman is the Hall of Mandos, basically the afterlife for Elves, where they wait until [[GodOfTheDead Mandos]] permits them to reincarnate back to the land of the living. (Men, on the other hand, leave Arda completely after they die. Where they go afterwards [[{{God}} Eru]] only knows, but it is implied to be the actual Heaven or something like it.) Originally, Aman was just a continent on Arda much like Middle-earth is, but when the Númenoreans attempted to sail the sea to reach it, Eru made the world round and cut off Aman from the rest of it, and now it can only be accessed by a "Straight Road" known only to the Elves.