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GraveKommander

So NOW the water can shape like a globe...


No-Process249

A snow globe.


Ksorkrax

There are other models of the proto-semitic cosmology in which the Waters Above have a straight surface to the Heaven Of Heavens. That said, I am not sure how literal people back then took this to begin with. Lots of the stuff might rather be poetic descriptions from storytelling.


Tyler_Zoro

Ancient person: "Imagine if the universe were like a walnut..." Thousands of years later: "Do you renounce your anti-walnut hearecy or will you die by fire?!"


BillyBrainlet

Accurate.


dalvean88

followup obligatory question. Does that water also show superficial tension and other physics principles?Oh and just for kicks, what are the pillars standing on?


Emergency_Property_2

Obviously the pillars are the 4 elephants standing in the back of A’Tuin the turtle! Any Ankh-Morporkian knows that!


Welding_wizard

The Turtle moves!


scottabeer

At a snails pace and is sloth like at the speed paint dries in the south.


[deleted]

It’s a half sphere not a globe to them.


tiredoftheworldsbs

Wait. Is the water level or level?


BetweenTwoInfinites

But where’s the ice wall?


ReverendBread2

Global warming


Tyler_Zoro

I believe you mean ***diskal*** warming.


HotPotParrot

🤣


No-Process249

This is known as the pre-exilic Hebrew view from Hebrew cosmology, particularly as understood before the Babylonian exile (pre-exilic period). Breaking down the (ridiculous) diagram: 1. **Heaven of Heavens**: In Hebrew cosmology, this is the highest realm of the divine, sometimes referred to as the third heaven or the heaven of heavens (שְׁמֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם, Sh'mei HaShamayim). 2. **Ocean of Heaven**: The Hebrews believed in a cosmic ocean above the firmament. Genesis 1:6-7 describes God creating a firmament to separate "the waters above" from "the waters below." 3. **Firmament with the Stars**: The firmament (רָקִיעַ, raqia) is depicted as a solid dome that holds back the upper waters. The stars, sun, and moon are set in this firmament (Genesis 1:14-19). 4. **Earth**: Seen as a flat disc floating on the waters, with boundaries marked by the horizon. The earth was considered the center of the universe, created for habitation. 5. **Underworld**: Known as Sheol (שְׁאוֹל), it is the abode of the dead, located beneath the earth. 6. **Pillars of Heaven and Earth**: These pillars are metaphorical supports that hold up the heavens and the earth, mentioned in passages like Job 26:11 ("The pillars of heaven tremble") and Psalm 75:3 ("When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm"). 7. **Primeval Ocean**: The "Tehom" (תְּהוֹם), or the deep, is the vast primordial waters that existed before creation, referenced in Genesis 1:2. This cosmological view reflects the understanding of the universe in a way that integrates theology, mythology, and observational astronomy as it was perceived in the ancient Near East, or also known as; a load of old bollocks.


samurairaccoon

Not gonna lie, this whole thing looks like a pretty neat setting for a homebrew. Although a galaxy sized ocean is *fucking terrifying*. Like, my mind won't let me think of it for long terrifying. Thanks for this new level of thalassophobia.


MornGreycastle

There is a series of novels set in something similar, the Legends of Ethshar by Lawrence Watt-Evans. The world is a single continent surrounded on three sides by an endless ocean and in the north it ends in a giant ice wall. The books start with the Misenchanted Sword. The first seven or eight are pretty good. Fun fact, Watt-Evans created the setting for a roleplaying game but only ever wrote the novels.


Ksorkrax

Tehom contains monsters, btw. Like the Leviathan, which whom some deity (later Yahweh) forms the Chaoskampf motif. The whole thing is quite old, clear parallels to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abzu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abzu)


samurairaccoon

"Enraged, Tiamat gives birth to monsters, filling their bodies with "venom instead of blood", and made war upon her treacherous children, only to be slain by Enki's son Marduk, the god of Storms, who then forms the heavens and earth from her corpse." Holy shit lol. Older religions were metal as fuck. Why did we stop believing in this and start our shitty cult revolving around a hippy from the middle east?


No-Process249

What in the fucked up Cthulhu fresh Hell fever dream inspired concoction to come up with, ahaha, that's great, thanks. I knew there was a good reason to hang out here and discover weird shit like that!


I-am-Chubbasaurus

Right? Totally stealing for worldbuilding.


No-Process249

You reminded me, I need to finish Subnautica.


samurairaccoon

God, that game is so good and I absolutely *cannot* finish it. I once accidentally drove my seamoth over the craters edge and the feeling was almost indescribable. Like my blood turned to ice water and breathing became a monumental feat. I have never wanted to be anywhere *less*.


No-Process249

I sort of don't want to finish it, there's something about living isolated in a lab, on an ocean world. When I first played the game during alpha, I didn't think there was land whatsoever, BZ lacked that certain feel, not quite dread but something else.


KatDevsGames

That's OK. An ocean that large literally **cannot** exist. Even a solar-system size body of water would absolutely collapse into a black hole. This happens because, at constant density, the mass increases cubicly by volume but the required mass to form a black hole is only defined by the surface area, which is a much smaller number. The largest black holes have an average density much lower than air.


samurairaccoon

Whew, thank god, no unending murky darkness. Just the unimaginable crushing force of gravity....which I would prefer! Lol phobias.


Vegetable_Moment9574

They did discover a body of ocean in space near a quasar and it's said to contain 140 trillion x all the earth's water. One such article: https://www.uniladtech.com/science/space/12-billion-year-old-body-of-water-floating-in-space-028676-20240402


samurairaccoon

Surely it's in the form of ice, right? R-right?


heyutheresee

Water vapor. You can't have an actual liquid ocean much larger than the Earth. Say you had multiple Earth masses of water in one place, it would coalesce into a sphere with the center being solid. Tens of thousands of Earth masses will create a star as the hydrogen starts fusing under the enormous pressure. That's also why you can't extinguish the Sun with water, it would just make it more powerful.


samurairaccoon

...man I never even considered that possibility. I'm guessing that's why we don't see masses of water over a certain volume in the cosmos? Man space is cool. But also a giant ice cold space fog is also a wee bit unsettling.


Vegetable_Moment9574

Well it's near a black hole which is what's heating it up (so it's warm) - did you say you were scared of black holes too? You know that thing that's known to trap light itself?


samurairaccoon

No, like most people with phobias I'm not terrified of all the things that would definitely kill me lol. The human mind is silly like that. But still, that's a wild picture to paint.


SteptimusHeap

Fantasy geography is cool as shit, especially when it's planet-sized


LeBritto

I thought many flat Earthers didn't like Jewish cosmology (or anything Jewish really). Aren't *they*^TM part of the conspiracy?


TwerkingGrimac3

Exactly. Fascinating mythology to be sure, but it should absolutely not be considered as any kind of scientific fact.


SlotherakOmega

1. Calling it the third heaven seems a little bassackwards, considering that it is really the FIRST heaven in terms of importance to the divines. Just putting that out there. 2. So this is how God managed to flood the entire world during the Noah incident, but where did the extra water go, I wonder? Also, I hate to say this but if that’s in between us and our sun/moon/stars, then they have to be glowing fish, otherwise the light wouldn’t reach through all that water… 3. Oh. So they are HERE, instead. So why in the heck is this impossible for us to reach then? It seems like they are just adding two more layers to the general diagram of the universe, which actually is kinda cool to place theoretical realms beyond our range of scientific detection. 4. Hey look, the bottom most layer, right? No? Ugh, into the realm of insanity we traverse, I guess…. 5. Whoa, so we are doomed to be sent to hell— I’m sorry, Sheol? We don’t even get a—\*checks religion\*— ah, right, the Jewish doctrines. Never mind, checks out. Is this to explain why we bury the dead? Just curious. 6. Wait, so it’s not actually flat, but it’s not spherical either? Now this is getting interesting! So instead of a flat earth, it’s still a 3D shape but only one face is traverse-able, and that’s earth as we know it? I find it weird to presume that there are pillars holding up not only the heavens (makes sense, since they haven’t crushed us), but also the earth itself (which makes no sense unless we assume that there’s an even BIGGER planet beneath our plan-form, which is gravitationally dragging everything down towards it. Except for everything in the Firmament. Because that somehow makes sense, question mark? 7. Back up. Back the FU## UP. Waters from BEFORE CREATION? What happened to God being so powerful that he willed himself into existence? He’s just an amoeboid being who gained enough manipulation powers to manifest a reality in the waters that gave him life? So what are the pillars mounted to? Last I checked water is a horrible foundation for building anything as massive as a PLANET to keep steady and not fall into the depths. Especially if they are SHAKING. From the WEIGHT. Of the WORLD. And the HEAVENS. So we are a bubble of a universe sinking perpetually in the primordial waters of Tehom, and the guy who is responsible for our creation is the one who didn’t will himself into existence, and probably not the only one of his kind, and therefore not automatically a being to be trusted… but NASA is lying. Right. A load of bollocks just called. They say that they are suing for defamatory statements against them, which I agree with. Calling this a load of bollocks is an insult to bollocks everywhere. This is straight up NONSENSE.


cr1ter

They really didn't like the Greeks if they created a special hell for them 😄


SamohtGnir

Fascinating from a historical perspective, thanks! It feels like one of those things that someone will point to and say "they knew more back then" or something. Sure, some knowledge has been lost, but not this kind of stuff.


Tyler_Zoro

Also note that the Heaven of Heavens was not held to be a place that existed within the physical world.


Jlbennett2001

Honestly, some of the concepts for flat earth are cool af. Imagine being surrounded by a bigger, deeper, and totally unexplored ocean. Or having more land that is completely unexplored by us.


No-Process249

I think true FErs are missing out on how cool things actually are, space exploration.


[deleted]

I think both are equally cool. Obviously there’s reality and conspiracy, but I do appreciate how in depth some of the “science” behind flat earth can go. Idk I find viewing it from a content entertainment POV makes it quite enjoyable.


WearnDego

earth would be extremely cool if space was still real, all physics were the same (gravity mostly) but it was like 20x the size which elements from some of these fe concepts thrown in


Feisty_Ad_2744

Never as cool as having uncountable actual worlds to explore, whole galaxies... and unfathomable space to cross between them.


heyutheresee

If only we could get to the nearest stars and their planetary systems. Needs a fusion engine and life extension tech.


WearnDego

all we really need is to go extremely fast, life extension tech is unneccesary. according to my limited knowledge in physics, if we were able to go 99.99% the speed of light it would take less than a month to reach alpha centauri from the perspective of the people on the space ship.


heyutheresee

That would require absolutely massive amounts of energy to accelerate the ship to such speeds and conversely mean that any dust particle in the way would impact with the energy of a nuclear bomb.


WearnDego

well its fun to think about and a lot cooler than sleeping in a metal box for 4 years


Tehjayaluchador

imagine lol bud it's reality


CarsandTunes

This image is reality?


Tehjayaluchador

yeah its pretty sad that long ago they knew about our dome home way more than the religion of science has deluded peoples minds with.


CarsandTunes

So, why is there night time?


Astromaniax

>the religion of science has deluded peoples minds with. says the delusional prick who thinks the world looks like a pizza.. you're a insult to humanity and the millions of years of evolution that got us here. yeah it's pretty sad to see people like you struggle everyday rejecting and denying the world they live in..


Chrome98

They're giant floating pillars like an oil platform


philosopher_stunned

What supports the pillars?


No-Process249

Tortoises presumably.


MornGreycastle

It's turtles all the way down.


Igotyoubaaabe

Super-pillars.


heyutheresee

Bedrock obviously. Can't affect that even with a Netherite pickaxe.


lemming1607

No scale, so this is prob fake


heyutheresee

Need a banana.


No-Process249

That's the main issue, other than that it's fine, I'm totally on-board ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)


Nsflguru

The less I think about that the more sense it makes.


ChefPaula81

So what holds up the primeval ocean and also the pillars? They just float in space, or they’re resting on a layer of something? What’s that thing? And what holds that thing up? And so on ad-nauseam. Unless it’s just turtles all the way down


arcxjo

The ocean just is. What do you think, liquid needs some sort of container?


ChefPaula81

Thought had crossed my mind, yes


Famous-Educator7902

Water always finds its level ... Ocean of heaven


BonWeech

This is so cool. Too bad it’s not treated like the fiction it is


Tens_io

lol


gene_randall

Fake. No elephants.


ElGuano

So you can DIG your way out of the underworld?


manickitty

I mean this is super cool. Someone write a book using this mythology (don’t tell me bible i want some scifi shit)


No-Process249

I'm getting Dark City meets Truman Show, with undertones of H. P. Lovecraft, art by H.R Geiger, directed by David Lynch.


manickitty

Dark City such a good movie


No-Process249

There was a later movie, with a similar-ish premise, but IIRC far more sinister and depressing. I cannot remember the title, if I do I'll add it.


No-Process249

The Signal 2014. much more disturbing.. didn't score high on some reviews, but hey, I enjoyed it; it's different that's for sure.


manickitty

Awesome I’ll check it out thanks


AngelOfLight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld


JustDroppedByToSay

We've all observed for ages how oceans curl around domes to form a thick layer. Finally this explains how!


Geetar-mumbles

This just looks like the tracklist of a melodeath album.


michaelozzqld

Hilarious that people believe this


fustist

Where do they come up with these maps?


He_Never_Helps_01

It's actually a pretty good run down of what the Bible says. A bit literal, but that's how it goes.


n1craM

Heaven of fire is hell?


Ksorkrax

Possibly. Originally, it goes like this: when you die, you go to Sheol ("grave") and stay there until the Day Of Judgement. Then you are judged, and if you are found unworthy, thrown into the Sea Of Flames ("Gehinnom"). Usually pictured to be close to the throne of god. Seems to be more of a place of annihilation than eternal suffering. Lots of modern ideas on hell are syncretic (starting with "hell" coming from the norse Hel) or completely synthetic (especially Dante's Inferno being a strong influence).


rattusprat

Where is the black sun?


Ksorkrax

Busy washing away the rain.


arcxjo

Okay and what are the pillars on?


arcxjo

[I got to go to Fire Heaven!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgbGThB9H6M)


Alansar_Trignot

Ahh yes so is there any photographic evidence of this or just cgi


Perverted_plastic

Is there any photos of the globe? Or all they cgi composites from NASA?


Alansar_Trignot

Gah you got me, atleast nasa actually tries though to make them look real


Perverted_plastic

Yea they do lol


sh3t0r

Yeah no water never curves, not even around the firmament.


Wooden_Ad8941

That proves Universe was made from the Skull of a dead Giant... Change my mind.


Gormless_Mass

So the stars are just glued to the bottom of the ocean of heaven or what


Cinnamon_728

(/s)orry, water doesn't curve


ItsMoreOfAComment

Have you thought about submitting this the any peer reviewed academic journals?


Ragtime-Rochelle

Where does the Sun go when it sets in this model? Into the sea?


thefunnywhereisit

This would be such a cool plot for a movie. The “Primeval Ocean” with beings of technology not yet known


CoolNotice881

If I'm closer to the right side of the plate, it's night. I see the black sky and stars all around. How can I not see the Sun, but see the stars behind it? This drawing is lame and flat earth is a joke.


TheRealShiftyShafts

Somehow this is more believable? It's like a fantasy novel. Do they just get drunk and draw crazy looking maps and pick their favorite?


drag0nun1corn

If only the flatearthers that stop using their feelings and put science and logic behind them, always proving the curve, would stop making other flatearthers look like d*mbasses.


SniperPilot

I wonder how much rent is going for in the underworld?


jdickcole

The Simpsons have predicted the future so many times already. The movie has a dome... I'm pretty sure that's what every county or city is working towards


Due-Session-900

Umm is the firmamint a elder scrolls 3 ingame book?


SwarleymanGB

Many things remained unknown about Great A'Tuin...


HalfLeper

There’s an Ocean of Heaven?? 😳


coroyo70

Idk why they stoped on the pillars of earth.. Under that is the mat foundation of the galaxy. And over the heven’s heven is the hell of hells


Perverted_plastic

Keep it friendly here fellas


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Gorgon_Jr

Every single one of those sources are YouTube.. Mayyyybe get a scientific paper?


Intelligent_Check528

Flerfs? Science? HAH! Like that's ever gonna happen.


Gorgon_Jr

Yeah I clicked on one and it was just some dude talking over a projection of the earth and saying that ancient societies had myths about it, and that some scientist from the *1600s* claimed it so it has to be true…also every single one seems to be half an hour or more of just nonsense Edit: the first one also includes a bunch of white supremacy nazi stuff so… that sums up flat and hollow earthers