Gustave Doré Empyrean Tapestry i'd-rather-be-slowly-consumed-by-moss often represented as a dragon

often represented as a dragon or serpent-like creature

The civilization is also noted for its art

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

and rebirth

Gustave Doré Empyrean Tapestry i'd-rather-be-slowly-consumed-by-moss often represented as a dragonOriginal 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