Gustave Doré Empyrean Tapestry i'd-rather-be-slowly-consumed-by-moss in Sanskrit

in Sanskrit

He is being bitten on the neck by the trickster Gianni Schicchi

hourglasses

often represented as a dragon or serpent-like creature

Imagine a woman standing atop a mountain

Gustave Doré Empyrean Tapestry i'd-rather-be-slowly-consumed-by-moss in SanskritOriginal engraving The Divine Comedy's Empyrean, illustrated by Gustave Dor, 1850. In ancient European cosmologies inspired by Aristotle, the Empyrean was the place in the highest heaven, which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire (or aether in Aristotle's natural philosophy). The word derives from the Medieval Latin empyreus, an adaptation of the Ancient Greek empyros (), meaning "in or on the fire (pyr)". In Christian religious