Seven Heavens

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Instance of

narrative motif, folklore motif, heptad

Part of

Irish mythology, Islamic mythology, Islamic eschatology, Siberian mythology, mythology of Oceania

Has parts

treasures of God in Islam

Follows

universe creation

Followed by

akhirah, Qiyama

Creator

God in Islam

Depicts

religious cosmology, nature, universe, multiverse, hierarchy

catalog code

A651.1.4

described by source

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, The ocean of story, being C. H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha sarit sagara (or Ocean of streams of story), Finno-Ugric Mythology. Siberian Mythology, Oceanic Mythology

facet of

afterlife, series of upper worlds, seven as magic number, heaven

indigenous to

Jewish people, Irish people, Hindu, Siberians, Sumatra, Muslim, Indonesians

physically interacts with

Throne of God, al-Arsh, Al-Kursi, Jannah, Jahannam, Araf, As-Sirāt, Sidrat al-Muntaha, Al-Bayt al-Maʿmūr

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