Islands of the Blessed

American  

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

1. islands in the ocean at the remotest western end of the world, to which the souls of heroes and worthy persons were said to be transported after death.

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Islands of the Blessed British  

plural noun

1. Also called: Hesperides.  Greek myth lands where the souls of heroes and good men were taken after death

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Example Sentences

Actually, Ialu was a forerunner of the Greek Islands of the Blessed.

From Time Magazine Archive

For her soul upon its journey To the Islands of the Blessed.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

Thus prepared, no wonder my eager little friend plunged headlong into the sea of doubts, impatient to cry, "Eureka!" and plant his foot upon the Islands of the Blessed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

When he came home empty-handed, heavy-hearted, lo! the spirit of Minnehaha had fled to the Islands of the Blessed.

From French Pathfinders in North America by Johnson, William Henry

Islands of the Blessed, fabled islands of the far west of the ocean, where the favoured of the gods after death are conceived to dwell in everlasting blessedness.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin