What’s so funny about this? Not much really, but we do have a palindrome here that’s kind of cute. In the picture we see several geese looking up at the sky. In most Western myths, religions and culture, it is assumed that if God lives in any one place, it would be above rather than below the earth. Granted these are relative terms especially from an astronomical perspective. When the notions of heaven and hell were created, most people thought the earth was flat and that the universe was pretty much limited to what they could see. God or the gods lived either on a mountain top such as Mt. Olympus in Greece or in the sky somewhere, in Heaven, where the daily temperature was probably comfortably cool, despite the altitude. The devil, by contrast lived in the underworld, literally under the ground in Hell or Hades, or some such place where it was always hot. As science and knowledge expanded and our concept of God changed and the universe expanded, God has come to be thought of more as a
