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  2. Biblical cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Two different models of the process of creation existed in ancient Israel. [15] In the "logos" (speech) model, God speaks and shapes unresisting dormant matter into effective existence and order (Psalm 33: "By the word of YHWH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts; he gathers up the waters like a mound, stores the Deep in vaults"); in the second, or "agon ...

  3. Separation of Light from Darkness - Wikipedia

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    5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. Although in terms of the Genesis chronology it is the first of nine central panels along the Sistine ceiling, the Separation of Light from Darkness was the last of the nine panels painted by Michelangelo. Michelangelo ...

  4. Olbers's paradox - Wikipedia

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    The first one to address the problem of an infinite number of stars and the resulting heat in the Cosmos was Cosmas Indicopleustes, a 6th-century Greek monk from Alexandria, who states in his Topographia Christiana: "The crystal-made sky sustains the heat of the Sun, the moon, and the infinite number of stars; otherwise, it would have been full of fire, and it could melt or set on fire."

  5. Astronomy and religion - Wikipedia

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    In many ancient religions, the northern circumpolar stars were associated with darkness, death and the underworld of the dead. For the Aztecs, the northern stars were associated with Tezcatlipoca. In Peking, China, was a shrine devoted to the North Star deity. Such worship of the northern stars may have been associated with time keeping, as the ...

  6. Worship of heavenly bodies - Wikipedia

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    Babylonian astronomy from early times associates stars with deities, but the identification of the heavens as the residence of an anthropomorphic pantheon, and later of monotheistic God and his retinue of angels, is a later development, gradually replacing the notion of the pantheon residing or convening on the summit of high mountains.

  7. Yaldabaoth - Wikipedia

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    Yaldabaoth, otherwise known as Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth [a] (/ ˌ j ɑː l d ə ˈ b eɪ ɒ θ /; Koinē Greek: Ιαλδαβαώθ, romanized: Ialdabaóth; Latin: Ialdabaoth; [1] Coptic: ⲒⲀⲖⲦⲀⲂⲀⲰⲐ Ialtabaôth), is a malevolent God and demiurge (creator of the material world) according to various Gnostic sects, represented sometimes as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent.

  8. Straight out of 'Star Wars,' NASA discovers a real 'death ...

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    This dead, dense star remnant is called a white dwarf." As this is the first time scientists have ever seen this "catastrophic destruction" in action, it's a pretty monumental moment for astronomers!

  9. Archon (Gnosticism) - Wikipedia

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    From the Hebrew term for "the Lord", used of God; Adonis of the Syrians representing the Winter sun in the cosmic tragedy of Tammuz. Astaphaios. Venus. 6th Heaven which is Sophia, a name of the female aspect of the lowest Heaven. [15] 8th Heaven - possibly Ogdoad or Pleroma [8] together with Christ. [16] 4th Heaven. [17] 9th Heaven - Abortion. [18]