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Author: StarSword

Dec 31st 2017 at 10:42:14 PM

Literature:
* ''Literature/AlexisCarew: HMS Nightingale'' has the neo-Luddite CultColony Man's Fall. Near the climax, a Man's Fall elder explains to Alexis that among their beliefs is that darkspace (the setting's equivalent to [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]], where dark matter has physical form and [[SpaceSailing ships sail the winds of dark energy between star systems]]) is in fact Heaven and forbidden to mortals, hence why it disables electrical technology and seemingly resists all attempts to study it.

TV:
* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the Bajoran religion states that their gods, the Prophets, live in the Celestial Temple. In the pilot episode "[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E01E02Emissary Emissary]]" this turns out to refer to SufficientlyAdvancedAliens who live in a wormhole that terminates in the Bajoran system.

Mythology:
* In Myth/NorseMythology, Asgard, the realm of the gods, is said to be one level up on the world tree Yggdrasil from Midgard, the realm of mortals (i.e. Earth).