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    Grotto-heavens (Chinese: 洞天; pinyin: Dòngtiān) are a type of sacred Taoist site. Grotto-heavens are usually caves, grottoes, mountain hollows, or other...
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    Hercules Grotto-heavens, Chinese religious usage associated with Daoist religion Karst Shell grotto Tunnels in popular culture OED, s.v. "grotto". G. W...
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    mythological or religious cosmology, the seven heavens refer to seven levels or divisions of the Heavens. The concept, also found in the ancient Mesopotamian...
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    or grotto-heavens, with dong meaning "to penetrate something" and tien referring to heaven. Going back as far as the fourth century, grotto-heavens were...
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    Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated...
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    Empyrean (redirect from Empyrean Heaven)
    of Seville and Bede. Atziluth Central Fire Heaven Hyperuranion Paradise Pleroma Seven Heavens Third Heaven Firmament Chisholm 1911. Case, Stephen (2022-12-02)...
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    surrounding the Middle Land, with mountain peaks and sky (Heaven or heavens) above, with sacred grottoes and an underworld below, and even sometimes with some...
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    Valhalla (category Conceptions of heaven)
    Worlds Urdhva Loka Madhya Loka Adho Loka Sikhism Sach Khand Taoism Grotto-heavens Chinese Tian Diyu Youdu Japanese Yomi Zoroastrianism Chinvat Bridge...
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  • leading upwards towards the heavens. There is debate between scholars over whether the gods were conceived of as living in the heavens, with some aligning their...
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    Jannah (redirect from Muslim heaven)
    3:21). God (Allah) does not reside in paradise or heaven. However, in Christianity, the new heavens and the new earth will be where God dwells with humans...
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