Gustave Doré Empyrean Tapestry i'd-rather-be-slowly-consumed-by-moss He is being bitten on

He is being bitten on the neck by the trickster Gianni Schicchi

Imagine a woman standing atop a mountain

is etymologically the feminised variant of Mahakala

emphasizing the triumph over adversity with the help of higher powers

often represented as a dragon or serpent-like creature

Gustave Doré Empyrean Tapestry i'd-rather-be-slowly-consumed-by-moss He is being bitten onOriginal engraving The Divine Comedy's Empyrean, illustrated by Gustave Dor, 1850. In ancient European cosmologies inspired by Aristotle, the Empyrean was the place in the highest heaven, which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire (or aether in Aristotle's natural philosophy). The word derives from the Medieval Latin empyreus, an adaptation of the Ancient Greek empyros (), meaning "in or on the fire (pyr)". In Christian religious