Cosmology (based on Buddhist cosmology)

Outer Gods domain

Outer Gods domain

Outside of all is the Ārūpyadhātu (Arūpaloka) or formless realm. It is broken into 4 areas:

Naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana - "Sphere of neither perception nor non-perception".

Ākiṃcanyāyatana - "Sphere Lacking Anything").

Vijñānānantyāyatana - "Sphere of Infinite Consciousness".

Ākāśānantyāyatana - "Sphere of Infinite Space".

See Cthulhu Mythos for a partial list of these gods. Most are either indifferent to humans, much
as a human is indifferent to an amoeba, or are completely insane by any rational standard.
However most want to get into this universe if only to gain the upper hand on their adversaries.

Deva domain

Bṛhatphala Realm – Domains of old gods and celestial entities that have passed beyond even
immortal concerns but are not yet powerful enough to ascend to the realms of the Great Olds
Ones.

Asaññasatta - "Unconscious beings"

Bṛhatphala - Devas "having great fruit".

Puṇyaprasava - "offspring of merit"

Anabhraka - The world of the "cloudless" devas

Śubhakṛtsna Realm

Śubhakṛtsna – “total beauty”

Apramāṇaśubha – “limitless beauty”

Ābhāsvara Realm( also called Janaloka, literally “realm of intellectuals” or “realm of the
enlightened”)

Ābhāsvara– “total enlightenment”

Apramāṇābha – “limitless enlightenment”

Parīttābha– “limited enlightenment”

Brahmā Realm

Mahābrahmā– “Great Brahma”

Brahmapurohita– “Ministers of Brahma”

Brahmapāriṣadya– “Councilers of Brahma”

The Worlds of Sumeru

The 80,000 yojana square top of Sumeru constitutes the Trāyastriṃśa "heaven" (devaloka
(literally realm of devas), also called Vaikuntha or ParamPadam, both meaning “supreme abode”
and Goloka, either “realm of cows” or “realm of stars” – this confusion may be where cow
worship first came about), which is the highest plane in direct physical contact with the
earth.Śakra (Indra, the Taoist Jade Emperor, Yu-huang), the lord of the devas rules the other
devas (Gods) on this plane.

The 33 named Deities

The next 40,000 yojanas below this heaven consist of sheer precipice, narrowing in like an
inverted mountain until it is 20,000 yojanas square at a height of 40,000 yojanas above the
cosmic “ocean”.

From this point Sumeru expands again, going down in four terraced ledges, each broader than
the one above. The first terrace constitutes the Cāturmahārājika"heaven" of the Four Great
Kings, on the lower slopes of Mount Sumeru, which is the lowest of the six worlds of the devas
of the Kāmadhātu, and is divided into four parts, facing north, south, east and west. Each section
is governed by one of the Four Great Kings, who faces outward toward the quarter of the world
that he supervises.The Four Great Kings are named Vaiśravaṇa (Ravana, Kubera, Namtose,
Bishamonten, Vishnu, Visnu) - he who hears everything (north) governing the yaksas,
Virūḍhaka(Shankar, Yama, Varahi, Yamaraja, Naraka, YimaXšaēta, Yamadipati) - he who
causes to grow (south) governing the kumbhandas, Dhṛtarāṣṭra( ) - he who upholds the realm
(east) governing the ganharvas, and Virūpākṣa(Varuna, Vourukasha, Leviathan, Hellmouth) - he
who sees all(west)governing the nagas.

The next three terraces down the slopes of Sumeru are each longer and broader by a factor of
two.

The world of the Asuras is the space at the foot of Mount Sumeru, much of which is a deep
ocean. It is not the Asuras' original home, but the place they found themselves after they were
hurled, drunken, from Trāyastriṃśa where they had formerly lived. The Asuras are always
fighting to regain their lost kingdom on the top of Mount Sumeru, but are unable to break the
guard of the Four Great Kings. The Asuras are divided into many groups, and have no single
ruler, but among their leaders are Vemacitrin (Pāli: Vepacitti) and Rāhu.

Note: Asuras are the equivalent of fallen angels and some are actual demons.

The Danavas (also called DānaveghasaAsuras) were the sons of Danu who in turn is the daughter
of Daksha (Yama). In the Rig Veda, nearly all demons defeated by the Devas are Devanas.

Famous Davanas

1) Puloman - Father of Indrani or Sachi

2) Viprachitti - Husband of Sinhika

3) Rahu - Son of Sinhika and Viprachitti

4) Vrishparva - Father of Sharmishtha

Earthly domains

Manusyaloka –

Jambudvipa (Jabudipa) – Our universe.

Purvavideha (Pubbavideha) –

Stambha is a cosmic column or bar at the center of the universe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_Galaxy
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter containing 200–400
billion stars. It may contain at least as many planets.[17] The Solar System is located within the disk,
around two thirds of the way out from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of a spiral-shaped
concentration of gas and dust called the Orion–Cygnus Arm. The stars in the inner ≈10,000 light-years
are organized in a bulge and one or more bars. The very center is marked by an intense radio source
named Sagittarius A* which is likely to be a supermassive black hole. The Galaxy rotates differentially,
faster towards the center and slower towards the outer edge. The rotational period is about 200 million
years at the position of the Sun. It is estimated to be about 13.2 billion years old, nearly as old as the
Universe.

The Galaxy consists of a bar-shaped core region surrounded by a disk of gas, dust and stars. The gas,
dust and stars are organized in roughly logarithmic spiral arm structures (see Spiral arms below). The
mass distribution within the Galaxy closely resembles the SBcHubble classification, which is a spiral
galaxy with relatively loosely wound arms.[1] Astronomers first began to suspect that the Milky Way is a
barred spiral galaxy, rather than an ordinary spiral galaxy, in the 1990s.[41] Their suspicions were
confirmed by the Spitzer Space Telescope observations in 2005[42] that showed the Galaxy's central bar
to be larger than previously suspected.

In the inner few kpc (≈10,000 light-years) is a dense concentration of mostly old stars in a roughly
spheroidal shape called the bulge.[47]. It has been proposed that our galaxy lacks a bulge formed due to a
collision and merger between previous galaxies and that instead has a pseudobulge formed by its central
bar.

The Galactic Center is marked by an intense radio source named Sagittarius A*. The motion of material
around the center indicates that Sagittarius A* harbors a massive, compact object.[49] This concentration
of mass is best explained as a supermassive black hole[nb 4][7][43] with an estimated mass of 4.1–4.5 million
times the mass of the Sun.[43] Observations indicate that there are supermassive black holes located near
the center of most normal galaxies.
The Galactic disk is surrounded by a spheroidal halo of old stars and globular clusters, of which 90% lie
within 100,000 light-years (30 kpc) of the Galactic Center,[71] suggesting a stellar halo diameter of
200,000 light-years. However, a few globular clusters have been found farther, such as PAL 4 and AM1
at more than 200,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. About 40% of the galaxy's clusters are
on retrograde orbits, which means they move in the opposite direction from the Milky Way rotation. [72]
The globular clusters can follow rosette orbits about the Galaxy, in contrast to the elliptical orbit of a
planet around a star.

On November 9, 2010, Doug Finkbeiner of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced
that he had detected two gigantic spherical bubbles of high energy emission that are erupting to the
north and the south of the Milky Way core, using data of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The
diameter of each of the bubbles is about 25,000 light-years (7.7 kpc); they stretch up to Grus and to
Virgo on the night-sky of the southern hemisphere. Their origin remains unclear, so far.