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Hel or HEL may refer to:Hel (realm), the realm of the dead in Norse mythologyHel (being), daughter of Loki, ruler of HelHel, Poland, a townHel Peninsula, a peninsula on the Polish shores of the Baltic SeaClub Hel, a location in the Matrix series.High Energy LaserHighly erodible landHel (band), a Swedish vikingarock bandHelsinki-Vantaa Airport
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Noun
1. goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld
(synonym) Hela
(hypernym) Norse deity
2. (religion) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to hell when he died"
(synonym) Hell, Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld
(hypernym) imaginary place, mythical place
(part-meronym) Acheron, River Acheron
(classification) religion, faith, religious belief

adv. very, wholly, entirely, completely

adj. whole, entire, complete; intact, unbroken, not in pieces

adv. glaringly, penetratingly

adj. clear, bright, glaring

n. hell, inferno, place of punishment and torture where the wicked are sent after their death

v. heal, cure, make well; be cured, become well

v. incline, slope, tilt, slant

[Norse] In Norse mythology, Hel is the ruler of Helheim, the realm of the dead. She is the youngest child of the evil god Loki and the giantess Angrboda. She is usually described as a horrible hag, half alive and half dead, with a gloomy and grim expression. Her face and body are those of a living woman, but her thighs and legs are those of a corpse, mottled and moldering. The gods had abducted Hel and her brothers from Angrboda's hall. They cast her in the underworld, into which she distributes those who are send to her; the wicked and those who died of sickness or old age. Her hall in Helheim is called Eljudnir, home of the dead. Her manservant is Ganglati and her maidservant is Ganglot (which both can be translated as "tardy").

Hel (Icelandic) [from helju hell, death] The mythical regent of the Norse realm of the dead, depicted as half black or blue and half flesh-colored. In myths the representative of death is usually said to be a child of mind: in the Edda she is the daughter of Loki (fire of mind) and of the giantess Angerboda (boder of regret). She rules the nine worlds of death which correspond to the nine worlds of life, and apportions to each arrival a domicile appropriate to that soul's merit or demerit. Some may frolic in sunlit meadows, others suffer agony beneath the lower gates leading to Niflhel [from nifl cloud + hel death] where matter is ground to extinction. The realm of Hel with its varied accommodations resembles the Greek Hades more than the hell of popular belief where evil souls are sent for punishment. Rather, the kingdom of death is a restful interlude where souls spend a fitting time in their rightful environment. The Eddas relate that elves (human souls) sleep among the gods when they are feasting on the mead of a past period of life (experience); thus the resting souls are present in the divine spheres even through unconscious of their surroundings.
In the Edda's Vagtamskvadet, the tale is told of the sun god's death and departure for the house of Hel, where a sumptuous apartment is furnished for him and mead is being freshly brewed for his arrival.