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Heavenly Concentric Circles
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In media, Heaven and its equivalents tend to be portrayed as being made up of concentric circles. Layers encasing other layers of divine beings, regions, or even colors. Such an arrangement conveys a sense of harmony, grandness, and divinity. Especially, because the big prize lies at the center —be it the setting's Top God, an Eldritch Abomination, or the universe's heart. This particular imagery stems from astronomy and maths. By the time of Ancient Greece, humanity began to understand that celestial bodies move in orderly ellipses of varying sizes. Earth's position in this system was harder to work out, but the idea was there. As it's bound to happen, this revelation about the nature of the universe merged with philosophical-mystical traditions like Alchemy and Kabbalah. Consequently getting projected into people's cosmology. Both the natural and supernatural planes imagined in an arrangement somewhere between a Layered World and a nested series of Hollow Worlds or Ring Worlds. Christianity, the ultimate form of syncretism, naturally embraced this idea. That's why we have depictions of heaven and the hierarchies of angels orbiting the throne of God in nested rings. Which, in turn, greatly influenced the Western's idea of how Heaven looks. In general, circular and spherical shapes have been associated with divinity. Part of the reason is because the sun, which is adored as the Top God in many cultures, appears as a disc in the sky and partly because they represent infinity, from which immortality and existence outside time stem. Circles of Hell is when sinners are sorted according to the severity of their misdeeds. An inversion of that, with do-gooders' souls being sorted according to their purity, is NOT equal to this trope. Yes, it can happen, but the important bit is that the place is arranged in concentric shapes. It's not mandatory for it to be circles. Domes, spheres, whorls, and even other geometric figures can apply too as long as they are coaxial and related to a divine realm or entity. The latter, for instance, might have this as a geometric Motif prominent in their design (e.g., a deity only blasts concentric Energy Ring Attacks). Sub-Trope of Layered World, when all planes of existence (not only the heavenly ones) exist over one another like layers on an onion. If heaven is but one ring in an assortment of rings, then it's not this trope. Compare World Shapes, which covers non-spherical planets, and The Exact Center of Everything, when the universe's center contains something important. If a heavenly entity's spells appear as concentric shapes, then it overlaps with Geometric Magic. See Axis Mundi for the structure that holds the world(s) together. Contrast and compare Rings of Activation, when (maybe concentric) rings of light signal preternatural or scientific phenomena. |
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Make the Exorcist Fall in Love: Mammon, Demon Lord of Greed, attempts to turn Tokyo into a reenactment of the scorching of Sodom and Gomorrah as a mockery of God's judgment and to challenge Father to a duel. Mammon's Kill Sat-style attack takes the form of multiple black concentric rings all rotating amidst walls of dark clouds. When Father rushes to stop the attack, he calls upon Archangel Gabriel for aid, with the resulting miracle consisting of similar concentric rings but made of holy light instead. | |
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Lil Nas X: "Call Me By Your Name" opens with an Establishing Shot of a heavenly plane. It's covered by cloud formations arranged like dashed rings spinning around the rising sun. This arrangement evokes a feeling of holiness and purity. | |
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Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Mami Tomoe has the Doppel of Worship, which is described as materializing when one has "accepted salvation in a moment of despair". In other words, the Doppel believes itself a divine savior. When merged with Mami Tomoe, it turns her Magical Girl outfit into a Shout-Out to common imagery of the Christian Virgin Mary. On her back, she has concentric, golden discs with the outer ring being made of protruding rays. | |
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The Simpsons: In the "Treehouse Of Horror XVI" segment "Survival Of The Fattest", Lenny dies and goes to his personal version of Heaven. All of the angels take the form of Carl and hover on the clouds positioned in concentric circles that lead to a light sphere. | |
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Naruto: The Rinnegan is the most powerful of the dojutsus and known as Samsara Eye which, according to Hindu Mythology, represents the cycle of reincarnation. Its users are said to be the heavens' chosen ones, fated to become gods of creation or destruction. The Rinnegan originated from an extraterrestrial Clan. It manifests as a pattern of concentric circles on a purple sclera. When it gets upgraded to Rinnesharingan, the added tomoe motifs from the Sharingan look like orbiting planets, as the tomoe motifs. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Eye of God that lies directly behind the Gate of Truth has black concentric rings within its pupil and the rim of its purple iris. Oftentimes, they are drawn irregularly or with a jagged appearance for added psychological horror effect. In the anime, they have a color gradient to further differentiate each circle. | |
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Kid Icarus: Uprising: Official artwork of the Skyworld depicts it as a vast mass of clouds. Some of them shape strange structures —i.e., concentric arcs towering over a platform of clouds. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion: When the Law of Cycles is preparing to purify Homura's soul gem, she appears in the sky surrounded by concentric circles of geometrical motifs. A literal, pink path to heaven sprouts from the center. After Homura splits the Law of Cycles and becomes her Anti-God counterpart, the whole universe gets rewritten. While this is happening, concentric mandalas can be seen fading in and out of a black background. Soon enough, even dozens of Kyubeys are flying in spirals too. |
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Kid Icarus: Lady Palutena, the Big Good, rules the Skyworld as the Goddess of Light. Her redesign brings a downplayed example of this trope. From her asymmetrical belt hang several golden accessories, one of them consisting of a small circle surrounded by two increasingly bigger rings. They aren't exactly concentric but skewed to the top. Her white, glowing halo is designed this way too, being a filled circle encased by a ring. In general, Palutena has round figures as her geometric motif. Kid Icarus: Uprising: Official artwork of the Skyworld depicts it as a vast mass of clouds. Some of them shape strange structures —i.e., concentric arcs towering over a platform of clouds. |
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Turning Red: The blood moon ritual to seal the red panda —a form granted by the gods to the Lees' ancestress— features two of these. A chalk circle has to be drawn and then people chanting or singing have to stand around it (not inside or on the line). At the center goes whoever is being purified. When the circle has been sufficiently powered by the music, a shaman/priest proceeds to Stab the Sky with a sword-like object containing a red gem. In both of the times the ritual is performed, the shot is arranged so the (round) gem is positioned at the center of the moon. | |
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Exalted: The Primordial She Who Lives In Her Name, the embodiment of hierarchy and order, takes the form of a crystal sphere orbited by 100 spheres, themselves orbited by 9,997 spheres (formerly 10,000). Each sphere contains a flame that whispers her name outwards, subsuming the mind of anyone who hears it. | |
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Avatar: The Tree of Souls is regarded as sacred by the Na'vi because it lets them connect to their goddess, Eywa, through neural queues. It's also the place where the Flux Vortex is at its strongest. The Tree of Souls can be found in a ravine shelled by coaxial arcs of humongous fallen trees. | |
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Castle in the Sky: Laputa is an idyllic floating city and the remains of an advanced, ancient civilization. By the film's present, it has become the stuff of myths. Laputa is arranged similarly to a medieval city on a hill —with thick, concentric walls built around an enormous tree. Its exterior is comprised of expansive green areas while the inside is a maze of high-tech circular corridors and ambients. | |
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The Bible: St. Paul talks about being taken out of his body and ascending to the Third Heaven. (2 Corinthians 12). This is implicitly stating that Heaven has levels or even circles. An apocryphal book not counted as canonical by most Christian denominations, The Apocalypse of St Paul, appears to add detail to this, and confirms for Christians the Jewish idea that there are seven heavens. | |
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Elysium: The space station Elysium is a lush, high-tech utopia that gets its name from Greek Mythology's name for the abode of gods, heroes, and divine beings. It has a torus shape with two coaxial rings connected by bridges of sorts. Everyone on Earth looks up to it as if it were literal heaven of safety, commodities, health insurance, and food abundance —which to be honest it is. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Rings of Akhaten", Akhaten is a parasitic, sentient planet that is revered by the people inhabiting neighboring planets as an evil god. There's an entire religion created to prevent Akhaten from ever waking up. Akhaten is surrounded by two concentric asteroid ring systems, with the inner one housing the pyramid-like Apex Temple where the ritual to keep him sleeping is performed. This makes this an Exploited Trope. | |
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The Erased Chronicles: Suffusing Erasa with divine ki from the Kaioushing's Super God Water (aka the Choshinsui) prompts her eyes to gain a concentric-ring pattern. To be more precise, she gets endowed with the soul of Earth's original god, Shangdi. | |
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Ōkami: Amaterasu, the Japanese Top Goddess and deity of the sun, carries Divine Instruments floating on her back while in her true form. She's the only one who can wield them as weapons. One class, the Reflectors, is based on the Yata no Kagami and has the form of a spinning disc with concentric or spiral patterns on its surface. | |
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Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto: Cesare Borgia's vision of heaven is based on a passage of Paradiso Canto. There are white thrones arranged in (skewed) concentric rings with the overall shape of a rose. | |
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