Conceptions of heaven

thumb|The Last Judgment (detail), c.1431, by Fra Angelico depicting people in paradise In religion and folklore, paradise is a place of everlasting happiness, delight, and bliss. Paradisiacal notions are often laden with pastoral imagery, and may be cosmogonical, eschatological, or both, often contrasted with the miseries of human civilization: in paradise there is only peace, prosperity, and happiness. Paradise is a place of contentment, a land of luxury and fulfillment containing ever-lasting bliss and delight. Paradise is often described as a "higher place", the holiest place, in contrast t

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thumb|''Goethe's Ankunft im Elysia by [[Franz Nadorp]] Elysium ( or ), otherwise known as the Elysian Fields (, Ēlýsion pedíon''), Elysian Plains or Elysian Realm, is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults. It was initially separated from the Greek underworld—the realm of Hades. Only mortals related to the gods and other heroes could be admitted past the river Styx. Later, the conception of who could enter was expanded to include those chosen by the gods, the righteous, and the heroic. They would remai

Land of Eternal Youth in Irish mythology

thumb|380x380px|Frieze of Gandharva|gandharvas and apsaras, residents of Svarga Svarga (, ), also known as Swarga, Indraloka and Svargaloka, is the celestial abode of the devas in Hinduism. Svarga is one of the seven higher lokas (esoteric planes) in Hindu cosmology. Svarga is often translated as heaven, though it is regarded to be dissimilar to the concept of the Abrahamic Heaven.

thumb|Depiction of Aaru within a work of Art of ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian art, from Dayr al-Madīnah

thumb|"Freya" (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler

In Japanese mythology, , also read as Takaamanohara, Takamanohara, Takaamagahara, or Takaamahara, is the abode of the heavenly gods (amatsukami). Often depicted as located up in the sky, it is believed to be connected to the Earth by the bridge Ame-no-ukihashi (the "Floating Bridge of Heaven").

thumb|300x300px|An illustration of Vaikuntha, presided over by Vishnu Vaikuntha (), also called Vishnuloka (), is the abode of Vishnu, the supreme deity in the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, and his consort, Lakshmi, the supreme goddess of the sect.

legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean

seven levels or divisions of the Heavens in religious or mythological cosmology

In Norse mythology, Gimlé (alternately Gimli as in Icelandic) is a place where the worthy survivors of Ragnarök are foretold to live. It is mentioned in the Prose Edda and the Eddic poem "Völuspá" and described as the most beautiful place in Asgard, more beautiful than the sun.

utopian ideal

biblical place of comfort for the righteous dead

thumb|right|upright=1.4|The Paradiso (Dante)#The Empyrean|Divine Comedys Empyrean, illustrated by [[Gustave Doré]]

thumb|The Trimurti in Devaloka

Norse mythological place

heaven as understood by Christianity

alt=Itzpapalotl In Tamoanchan described in the Codex Borgia.|thumb|300x300px|Itzpapalotl In Tamoanchan described in the Codex Borgia. Tamōhuānchān is a mythical location of origin known to the Mesoamerican cultures of the central Mexican region in the Late Postclassic period. In the mythological traditions and creation accounts of Late Postclassic peoples such as the Aztec, Tamoanchan was conceived as a paradise where the gods created the first of the present human race out of sacrificed blood and ground human bones which had been stolen from the Underworld of Mictlan.

mythical realm in Irish mythology

In Norse mythology, Vingólf is one of the buildings of the gods. It is described as the hall or hörgr of the goddesses and also as a place where righteous men and those slain in battle go after death. It is mentioned in the Prose Edda, Gylfaginning 3 and in the enigmatic poem Hrafnagaldur Óðins.

Iriy, Vyrai (, ), Vyriy (, ), or Irij (Croatian, Czech, Slovak: Ráj, Raj, Irij, ) is a mythical place in Slavic mythology where "birds fly for the winter and souls go after death" that is sometimes identified with paradise. Spring is believed to have arrived on Earth from Vyrai.

realm of the deities in Celtic mythology

figure in Hindu mythology

thumb|An illustration depicting Shiva with his family at Kailasha

Uçmag (also spelled: Uçmag, Uçmak, Ocmah, Uçmah) is heaven in Turkic mythology. It is the opposite of Tamag. The souls of the righteous people dwell in heaven after death.

The hyperuranion or topos hyperuranios (, accusative of ὑπερουράνιος τόπος, "place beyond heaven"), which is also called Platonic realm, is a place in heaven where all ideas of real things are collected together. As a perfect realm of Forms, the hyperuranion is within Plato's view that the idea of a phenomenon is beyond the realm of real phenomena and that everything we experience in our lives is merely a copy of a perfect model. It is described as higher than the gods since their divinity depended on the knowledge of the hyperuranion beings."But the region above the heaven (ὑπερουράνιον τόπον

In Latter Day Saint theology, one of 3 eternal abodes

In Norse mythology, Víðbláinn ("Wind-Blue" or "Far-Blue", combination of víð and bla) is the third heaven in the cosmology of Snorri's Gylfaginning, located above Andlang and Asgard. It will serve as a shelter and dwelling place for the souls of the dead during and after the destruction of Ragnarök.