Can we have a cosmology thread? Fantasy or even ones real-world religions have come up with.
>>44295849
>K6GD
mah negro
>>44295323
I really want my setting to have "physical" afterlifes in which the gods reside that are connected to the real world.
>>44295355
>land of women
>>44296118
Anyone have one for Pathfinder?
>>44296706
>>44295672
>>44299002
>>44295773
I was gonna do something like this for my cosmology but I decided space was more fun on its own.
>>44295983
greyhawks great wheel has that.
I guess I really shouldn't be surprised at how easily searching for religious cosmologies leads into pseudoscientific nonsense about crystal resonance or some shit.
>>44297323
Thanks, anon
>>44296029
I could never get jiggy with those tree-of-life types of cosmologies. Who came up with that stuff anyway?
>>44302064
Literally Jews.
>>44299078
A little more accurate
>>44302748
>>44299078
Mormonverse looks like a pretty kickass setting
>>44302341
Literally no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_tree
>>44303667
Literally fuck yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot
>>44303667
>>44304398
>being surprised multiple cultures used a tree to represent the worlds
>a plant with high boughs to represent the heavens, a trunk for the world, and roots to the underworld
>>44295773
>Syberis
>>44295509
>reditus
>redditus
>>44295323
Nigga yo map got like FOUR goddamn Arcadias. How the fuck am I supposed to get back through the hedge now?
Why are cosmologies so round?
>>44304449
Also, tree's are living yet can easily outlive a person. They're a potent symbol of permanence, and thus that which exists beyond humanity; just as someone might be born and die in the shade of the same tree, so do even worlds and planes live and die amongst something more eternal than they.
>>44295849
>>44295888
Fuck off with your shilling!
>>44306363
Because of their Greek inspirations. Many Greek philosophers (and therefore also monotheists who later were inspired by them) revered the sphere as a representation of the divine. It is due to the geometrical and mathematical properties of this figure.
Got anything for urban fantasy settings? I'm trying to get inspiration for one I'm working on.
>>44309876
These cosmologies are perfectly okay for urban fantasy settings, they are just cosmologies. I don't really see how such a setting would have different metaphysics.
>>44302748
>>44303647
So what exactly does the Telestial Kingdom even do?
>>44311336
It telests.
>>44311336
It's the realm of really really good analog TV reception
>>44306832
Shilling a free webcomic with a system that gets leaked the moment it comes out.
>>44311336
The Telestial Kingdom is the least of the three heavenly realms but it's still supposed to be vastly superior to the world today. Basically all the sinners and bad people spend a thousand years in Hell Probation but after that still get a version of Heaven for themselves.
It's not as good as the other two heavenly realms but it beats burning in Hell forever I guess.
>>44313691
I find it interesting that most religions seem to have a state of "only partly damned," for lack of a better term. Buddhism and Hinduism have reincarnation, so literally infinite chances, Judaism just has Sheol for everyone, Mormonism has Temporary Hell. It seems like it's mainly Christianity and Islam that draw a hard line of damned = damned, saved = saved, no ifs, ands, or buts.
>>44314264
Some sects of Christianity have Purgatory for righteous nonbelievers.
>>44314306
That'd be Roman Catholicism, and Purgatory is where the saved go to have their sins purged. You're thinking of Dante's Inferno, where he has a relatively nice circle of Hell for noble pagans.
>>44296118
Underrated post
