Themed around the ancient heaven-meets-earth concept of the axis mundi, it's a stream of entrancing sound in which long, ringing harp tones drift across vocal laments and thudding low drumbeats.
The spirit reveals the "hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent – and of how and why, and in what manner and with what far-reaching purpose, this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean".
A well-hit three-iron away, in benign golfing heaven, the ancient saints in Palmer, Nicklaus and Player are venerated all the same.
In the religion of ancient Israel the barrier between Heaven and Earth seemed to melt, but only for a moment, when God revealed his holy name to Moses with the words Ehyeh asher Ehyeh, I am what I am.
The whole scene resembles a placid Chinese scroll painting and explains an ancient Chinese saying: "There is heaven above, but there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below".
Such models may have a utilitarian, empirical basis; they may rest on independent moral grounds; or they may be based simply on the conviction that the actions of exemplary moral agents, such as Tian (Heaven) and the ancient sage-kings, cannot be wrong.
The Elysian Fields were the ancient Greek's answer to heaven.
It investigates the notion of heaven from the ancient world to modern accounts of near-death experiences with visits to paradise.
The latest findings in Earth science are brought to you by ancient astronomers who observed the heavens as long as 2,700 years ago.
My homeland was called Campania Felix, or "Blessed Campania," by the ancient Romans, who felt the heavens had smiled on the region by giving it a mild climate, fertile soil, and magnificent scenery.
Kepler described his new astronomy as "celestial physics", as "an excursion into Aristotle's Metaphysics", and as "a supplement to Aristotle's On the Heavens", transforming the ancient tradition of physical cosmology by treating astronomy as part of a universal mathematical physics.
