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Category: Skies that must be held up

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  • Egyptian cosmology — The world of Geb and Nut: a flat earth and an arched sky, held apart by a god posted permanently between them.
  • Firmament — The solid dome of the sky in ancient and biblical cosmology — figurative to most, load-bearing to the Aetheric Concord.
  • Norse cosmology — The walled middle-world of the Eddas: a flat Midgard ringed by the world-serpent and roofed with a giant's skull.

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