Afterlife Like most cultures around the world, Asian cultures have a sense of existence after death, but that existence is much less literal than the Elysian Fields and heavens and hells that mark Western mythology and religion. There is sometimes an underworld such as the one called Yomi (see Yomi ) found in the Japanese story of Izanagi and Izanami, (see Izanagi and Izanami ) or the Houses of Songs and Lies in ...