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  2. Cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium - Wikipedia

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    The only remaining way to reach Aman was the so called Old Straight Road, a hidden route leaving Middle-earth's curvature through sky and space which was exclusively known and open to the Elves, who were able to navigate it with their ships. [3] This transition from a flat to a spherical Earth is at the centre of Tolkien's "Atlantis" legend ...

  3. Tolkien's round world dilemma - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien came to feel that the flat earth cosmology he embodied in his legendarium would be unacceptable to a modern readership. In The Silmarillion, Earth was created flat and was changed to round as a cataclysmic event during the Second Age in order to prevent direct access by Men to Valinor, home of the immortals. [1]

  4. Early Greek cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Near the edges of the earth is a region inhabited by fantastical creatures, monsters, and quasi-human beings. [6] Once one reaches the ends of the earth they find it to be surrounded by and delimited by an ocean (), [7] [8] as is seen in the Babylonian Map of the World, although there is one main difference between the Babylonian and early Greek view: Oceanus is a river and so has an outer ...

  5. Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Wikipedia

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    Her sister Ida greets her at Heaven's gates and then she is ushered upstairs to meet God and ask any questions she likes. Besides sporting such fanciful things as polka-dotted squirrels and unusually colored landscapes, Heaven also looks like her hometown, Elmwood Springs, about 50 years in the past.

  6. Hell Is the Absence of God - Wikipedia

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    Wanting to return her blessing, her story makes the news, convincing Neil that the only way to enter Heaven is by witnessing Heaven's light. In the past, many people who have witnessed Heaven's light, which appears when an angel enters and exits the mortal world, ascend to Heaven no matter the amount or severity of their sins. Sure enough, an ...

  7. Young girl claims she saw heaven after falling 30 feet - AOL

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    Twelve-year-old Annabel Beam was only nine years old when she fell 30 feet from a tree and claimed she saw heaven. As Fox News Insider reports, "Annabel Beam was just five years old when she was ...

  8. Gaia - Wikipedia

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    In the Iliad, Alpheia beats with her hands the bountiful ("polyphorbos") earth, but she calls Hades and Persephone to avenge her against her son. [13] In the poems of Hesiod, she is personified. Gaia has a significant role in the evolution of the world. [14] She is the nurse of Zeus, and she has the epithet "Kourotrophos".

  9. Remember Ruthie Camden from '7th Heaven'? Well, she's all ...

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    Rosman has starred in a variety of projects since her "7th Heaven" days, in shows like "Secret Life of an American Teenager," the movie "Nightcomer," and much more.