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There's surprisingly no trope for it yet, but these are various depictions of the Celestial Spheres
. Would make a great YKTTW if you're looking for a project.
The general idea is that by about the time of the Greeks, math and astronomical records were getting advanced enough to work out that all the stuff in the sky was moving in orderly circles of varying sizes (Earth's position in this system was harder to work out, but the idea was there). This revelation about the nature of the universe merged with philosophical-mystical traditions like Alchemy and Kabbalah that projected it into a cosmology with both the natural and supernatural in an arrangement somewhere between a Layered World and a nested series of Hollow Worlds or Ring Worlds, down to depictions of heaven and the hierarchies of angels orbiting the throne of God in nested rings
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You could stretch and say it falls under World Shapes, but honestly, no I don't think we have this.
Well, I'd need to read the TLP guidelines first, but I'll take into account what you said for the draft's description.
Here there be cats.
Circles of Hell currently has a throwaway mention of "Heaven having various layers as well" in the description, but I'm inclined to think it's worth splitting off as its own thing.
Thank you, I'll add it to my draft.
Edit: Here's the TLP draft.
Is there a trope for when Heaven or its equivalents are depicted as concentric circles of stuff (like colors) or people (e.g., concentric circles of flying angels)?
I've seen it in many Renaissance paintings.