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the eternal members-only club where nobody can confirm the dress code or the address
means The place or state of supreme blessedness where, in many religions, God dwells and the virtuous go after death — or, more loosely, the sky above us or any condition of perfect happiness.
from From Old English 'heofon,' meaning both the visible sky and the dwelling of God — a word shared with the other Germanic languages (compare Old Saxon 'heban' and German 'Himmel,' though that last took a different path). Its deeper roots are murky; one suggestion links it to a Proto-Germanic word for a stone vault or covering, as if early speakers pictured the sky as a great dome stretched overhead. English long used the same word for the literal heavens and the heavenly afterlife, letting the firmament and the divine share a single sound.
- Etymology
- From Old English heofon, meaning the visible sky
- Seventh layer
- Multiple faiths stack heaven into ranked tiers
- No marriage
- Jesus said heaven holds no weddings
- Cloud myth
- No major scripture actually describes cloud lounging
- Geography
- Often placed upward, simply because sky
pearly gates — christian theological concept of heaven's entrance, described in revelation 21:21
paradise — islamic concept of jannah with 8 levels, described in the quran
mount olympus — ancient greek home of the 12 olympian gods, located on an actual mountain in northern greece