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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Islands of the Blessed

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The ancients called these places the Islands of the Blessed and the Fortunate Isles.

From The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by H. H. (Hugh Hornby) Langton

And these, when they are dead, shall give judgment in the meadow at the parting of the ways, whence the two roads lead, one to the Islands of the Blessed, and the other to Tartarus.

From Gorgias by Benjamin Jowett

The time was soon to come when he too could depart to the Islands of the Blessed, where the spirit of his wife awaited him.

From The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose by Doris Hayman

For Hiawatha had disappeared forever in the kingdom of the North-west wind and the Islands of the Blessed.

From The Story of Hiawatha Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes