A third guy, cycling slowly in the searing heat of Beijing's midday sun, strings out two heaven-sent syllables for more than five seconds: "peeeeeeeeee-jyoooooohhhhhh!" ("beer!").
In her whimsical program notes, Ms. Milhazes describes "three persons, three heavens, three adventures of endless subtle variations".
If he behaved well, his soul would ascend to a "flower paradise," one of the Aztecs' thirteen heavens.
The celestial realm, generally composed of seven heavens or spheres dominated by the seven then-known planets, was the realm of the divine and the spiritual.
The sentence was carried out by the spectral hordes of the Six Heavens (liutian), a posthumous dwelling place of all unhallowed mortals.
Frankel's impressive start to his career as a stallion continued on the card at Ascot, where Seven Heavens became his sixth winner from 10 runners to date.
The most challenging was Meredith Monk's "Three Heavens and Hells," in which rhythms, quirky melodies and vocal sound effects multiplied.
Even if we no longer buy the idea of seven heavens, seven cardinal virtues or seven choirs of angels, we still have an uneasy sense that our lives are for something.
The present (i.e., the 4th century) was a time of trials, given over to the reign of the demonic Six Heavens, and marked by war, disease, and the worship of false gods.
According to Islamic tradition, the prophet travelled miraculously from Mecca to Jerusalem and then upwards through the seven heavens, culminating in a direct conversation with, and/or vision of, God.
