What Is Heaven and Earth?

johnupon the for so in order to understand what heaven and earth is, you really have to be able to step into an ancient person's perception. And if we do that, then we can more easily recapture what it is that the ancients were talking about when they s the term heaven and earth. These categories of heaven and earth are universal in every culture. Sometimes they are personified as gods, like uranos and gaya. Or in native traditions, you'll have father heaven, mother arth. You have it in a more abstract, sometimes more philosophical way in chinese theory, you have yang and yin as heaven andearth.

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