Paradise

Uncommon card · No. 122278

In religion and folklore, paradise is a place of everlasting happiness, delight, and bliss. Paradisiacal notions are often laden with pastoral imagery, and may be cosmogonical, eschatological, or both, often contrasted with the miseries of human civilization: in paradise there is only peace, prosperity, and happiness. Paradise is a place of contentment, a land of luxury and fulfillment containing ever-lasting bliss and delight. Paradise is often described as a "higher place", the holiest place, in contrast to this world, or underworlds such as hell. The use of the word 'paradise' to describe such a place originates from the Vulgate's use of the Latin word paradisus in its translation of Genesis 2:8: "And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure" (Latin: "plantaverat autem Dominus Deus paradisum voluptatis"), this word in turn being borrowed from the Septuagint's use of the Greek word παράδεισος (paradeisos) meaning 'garden' or 'orchard'. Although Jerome translated from the original...

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