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Heaven, the earth, and the abysses, based on the Old Testament interpretation of Giovanni Schiaparelli.

ABC = the upper heaven;
ADC = the curve of the abyss;
AEC = the plane of the earth and seas;
SRS = various parts of the sea;
EEE = various parts of the earth;
GHG = the profile of the firmament or lower heaven;
KK = the storehouses of the winds;
LL = the storehouses of the upper waters, of snow, and of hail;
M = the space occupied by the air, within which the clouds move;
NN = the waters of the great abyss;
xxx = the fountains of the great abyss;
PP = Sheol or limbo;

Q = the lower part of the same, the inferno properly so called.
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Source Astronomy In The Old Testament, p. 38, fig. 1
Author Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
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