heaven
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also in the atlas: Heaven the deity
Heaven · the eternal place · the heavens · the sky · السماء · Sky · al-samāʾ · bridge to heaven · dwellings in heaven not made with hands · eternal place in heaven
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2 expressionsThe Eternal Dwelling“Heaven”1 mention
Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)
and these houses gleaming with gold, and these splendid garments, and all the rest of the luxury of this life, are more distasteful than dung and squalor to the eyes of those who know the inexpressible beauties of the dwellings in heaven not made with hands, the God-woven robe and the incorruptible diadems which God, the Creator and Lord of all, has prepared for those who love him.
World of the gods“heaven”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
Seeing Triśaṅku arrived at the divine world, Pākaśāsana — Indra — along with all the hosts of gods, spoke these words.
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The heavenly realm(s) from which Christ is said to descend, disputed as either the Creator's or an alien heaven.
Was there, then, any order in this, that he should be described as descending first out of his own heaven into the Creator's?
But if an eternal place is promised, and an ascent into heaven is built by the Creator, promising too that the seed of Abraham should be as the stars of heaven, surely on account of a heavenly promise — that promise being safe, why should it not admit that the bosom of Abraham be called some temporal receptacle of faithful souls, in which already the image of the future is delineated, and a certai …
Of our earthly dwelling-place he does not say that we have a house eternal, not made with hands, in heaven, because what is made with hands of the Creator perishes wholly, dissolved after death.
Barlaam and Josaphat
The dwelling of God and destination of the righteous after judgment.
For eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and it has not entered the heart of man, what God has prepared for those who love him in the kingdom of heaven, in the unapproachable light, in the unutterable and unending glory.
and on behalf of us, his thankless servants, the Master accepted death, and death by the cross, that the tyranny of sin might be loosed, that the former condemnation might be removed, that the gates of heaven might be opened to us again.
and these houses gleaming with gold, and these splendid garments, and all the rest of the luxury of this life, are more distasteful than dung and squalor to the eyes of those who know the inexpressible beauties of the dwellings in heaven not made with hands, the God-woven robe and the incorruptible diadems which God, the Creator and Lord of all, has prepared for those who love him.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The heaven to which the believer's spirit ascends at death.
and that the believer's spirit ascends to heaven, whereupon the spirits of the believers come to him and ask him for news of his acquaintances among the people of this world — the ḥadīth.
and he composed a book on what is proper to the things that are not under generation, and he named it the Book of the Heaven.
For of the things that are in matter, some are under generation and corruption and some are not under generation and corruption;
Rigveda
The celestial realm associated with the Maruts' voice and presence.
They who are heard from the great heaven by their song, blazing brightly, of beautiful forms — Evayāmarut;
being like the greatest mountains in the sky, may ye, the all-knowing ones, be hard to seize and restrain the bonds.
may mother Earth and father Heaven give it.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The sky or celestial realm, treated as the seat of animal and separate souls in the philosophers' cosmology and as the source of an imagined unrealised marvel.
but not everything possible is actual — for it lies within possibility that a house of gilded ornament should come down from heaven, and that has not occurred.
They did not affirm in the heaven a growing, vegetative soul;
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Heaven/sky, personified as identified with Indra, as an attendant realm, and as mapped onto the Vrātya's breath.
The two cool-season months guard him from the upward direction, and Heaven and the Sun wait upon him — for whoever knows this.
And he who [speaks ill of a vrātya who knows thus] cuts himself off from Ṛta, Truth, the Sun, and the Moon.
When a vrātya who knows thus comes as a guest to the home of a king, let the king honor him as superior to himself — then the king is not cut off from the realm (rāṣṭra), not cut off from the kingly power (kṣatra), not cut off from the sacred power (brahman).
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The heavenly realm of temporary reward described in the Hindu afterlife doctrine.
Heaven, as is not unusual in religious systems, is but faintly sketched;
But, after a second birth through the study of the Scriptures, the virtuous at death pass straight into Heaven, where their stock of virtue will keep them for long ages;
Religious pictures, representing the circle of life with its various compartments, with Heaven at the top and Hell at the bottom, and with human and animal existence at the sides, are common in the East;
Hymn 31 to Helios
Celestial space through which Helios travels and at whose height he pauses.
Then, when he has stayed his golden-yoked chariot and horses, he rests there upon the highest point of heaven, until he marvelously drives them down again through heaven to Ocean.
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
Heaven is the divine realm to which Aphrodite departs after finishing her instructions.
” --> When the goddess had so spoken, she soared up to windy heaven.
Sāmaveda
The heavenly realm addressed as the deity's dwelling in a recurring refrain.
Of that commanding heaven, go to heaven, O thou who hast the sky as thy dwelling.
Of that commanding heaven, go to heaven, O thou who hast the sky as thy dwelling.
Of that commanding heaven, go to heaven, O thou who hast the sky as thy dwelling.
Adversus Hermogenem
Heaven, made by God alongside earth and destined to pass away.
Now then, if the principal works of God are heaven and earth, which God made before all things, it is fitting that they should properly be the beginning of his works, being the first made;
Since indeed the heaven too shall be rolled up like a book — nay, shall be nowhere, together with the earth itself, with which it was made in the beginning.
For if through the Wisdom of God all things were made, then God, in making heaven and earth in the beginning — that is, the starting-point — made them in his Wisdom.
Adversus Praxean
The heavenly realm, seat of the Father and destination of the ascended Son.
Lo, out of abundance the Father answers from heaven, to attest to the Son:
He sits at the Father's right hand;
De Carnis Resurrectione
Heaven, contrasted with earth as the origin of the 'second man' and of Christ's light.
But even Christ, beyond the ocean, and from this heaven which lies upon us, shone forth the true light to the nations.
But here, of the substance of the flesh, they are called the first and the last, as again "the first man of the earth, and the second from heaven";
De Spectaculis
Heaven, the dwelling of God and the angels, contrasted with the spectacle and its assemblies.
For what kind of thing is it to go from the church of God into the church of the devil—from heaven, as they say, into the mire?
Do you doubt that in that very moment in which the devil rages in the assembly, all the angels look down from heaven and mark each man—who has spoken blasphemy, who has heard it, who has lent his tongue, who his ears, to the devil against God?
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
The heavenly afterlife destination attained by kings and judges who act justly.
enjoyment, favor, and honor, invincibility, popular esteem, and an eternal place in heaven.
he who makes them free from disease with the collyrium-stick of the sacred treatises, obtains fame here, honor from the king, and a path to heaven.
The king who, accompanied by the *prāḍvivāka*, ministers, Brahmin priest, and assessors, acts as an observer according to *dharma*, abides in heaven.
Parāśara Smṛti
Realm of reward described as the destination for correct performance of hospitality, battlefield heroism, widow's chastity, and funeral rites.
Whether he is liked or disliked, a fool or a scholar, if he arrives at the end of the *Vaiśvadeva* ritual, that *atithi* is a bridge to heaven.
Even if he is a sinner or an outcaste (*caṇḍāla*), a slayer of a Brāhmaṇa or a patricide, if he arrives during the *Vaiśvadeva*, that *atithi* is a bridge to heaven.
The woman who, after her husband has died, remains firm in her vow of celibacy—she, upon dying, obtains heaven, just as those celibate students do.
Slokantara
The heavenly realm, ruled by Indra, and destination for those with virtuous deeds.
There is something called *svargacyuta*, "one who has fallen from heaven.
[Slo_37s-a] > *Valor, health, a love that is blameless,* [Slo_37s-b] > *Devotion to the gods, the acquisition of gold,* [Slo_37s-c] > *Being beloved by the king, being beloved by good people—* [Slo_37s-d] > *This is indeed the sign of those who have fallen from heaven.
If the deeds are good, they fall into heaven.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The celestial world that Triśaṅku seeks to reach bodily and briefly attains before being cast down.
Seeing Triśaṅku arrived at the divine world, Pākaśāsana — Indra — along with all the hosts of gods, spoke these words.
let your honours, with concentration, officiate my sacrifice for its fulfillment, so that I may attain the world of the gods in my own body.
When the sage had so spoken, the lord of men ascended to heaven in his own body, O Kākutstha, while the assembled sages looked on.