Micronesians generally believed in at least three vertically arranged levels of the universe: the heaven or sky world, the earth, and the underworld.
Over the past three weeks was I really supporting the Kenyan-born Chris Froome or, heaven forbid, Sky? Sport is so dominated by international corporations that perhaps we should first decide which companies to support, and then work backwards to the stars they fund?
Point your device toward the heavens and Sky Map puts a label on every celestial body you see — and some you can't.
In Japan, for example, the five-story pagoda is common, with each story representing one of the five elements: earth, water, fire, wind, and void (sky, heaven).
A decrepit lounge chair and ottoman set, she said, "really needs to move on now, to the big chair heaven in the sky".
When strangers stop them on the street and ask, with genuine interest, what it is exactly they like about living here (something that happens more often than you might think), Mr. Jenkins, 74, answers simply, in his easy Spanish: "It's like a piece of heaven in the sky".
The winged male figure in Jorge Marin's sculpture titled "Angel con Libros" ("Angel With Books") (1998) stands and stares at and through an orb that seems to be a representation of heaven (a stellar sky on the top half) and earth (a gray-brown coloring on the bottom half).
The Zhou dynasty nature deity Tian (Heaven, nature, the sky) is the counterpart (and superior) in this extended system of the human sovereign.
