Heaven and Earth
place · 3 works · 10 mentions · 19 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Heaven and Earth the deity · Heaven and Earth the group
heaven and earth · the two world-halves · Dyāvāpṛthivī · both worlds · the two worlds · Earth · Heaven · sky and earth · the two great worlds
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Two Worlds“Heaven and Earth”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Heaven is my father, my begetter;
in the texts
Rigveda
The paired cosmic realms of sky and earth, treated both as physical space and as a quasi-divine pair invoked for protection.
Slaying Vṛtra they crossed Heaven and Earth;
may Heaven and Earth, together with the gods, protect us.
Golden-handed Savitṛ, all-seeing one, moves between both Heaven and Earth.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The paired cosmic spheres of sky and earth, invoked for auspiciousness and homage.
may the two heavenly vaults — sky and earth — be auspicious for me.
Having paid homage to heaven and earth, to the atmosphere, to death — standing upright I shall stir;
Whatever brilliance belongs to heaven and earth, and whatever brilliance resides in you, O ointment — by that brilliance, sharp-sighted and radiant, may I become, O ointment.
Sāmaveda
The paired cosmic realms of Heaven and Earth, propped apart and sustained by divine order.
Know this, O heaven and earth, on my behalf.
Full of ghee, of all worlds the splendor, wide and broad, the two honey-yielding, beautifully formed ones — Heaven and Earth, propped apart by the law of Varuṇa, ageless and rich in seed.