Timeline for What is the first instance of a portal to another world?
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| Apr 16, 2016 at 7:43 | comment | added | Adamant | Actually, it is seems clear to me that this is a portal in the standard sense. When Bukiya enters the gate, he beholds a vast ocean, bounded on all sides by mountains of ruby. He would have seen the mountains of ruby before the gate, had they been spatially contiguous. Mountain ranges have two sides, after all. And unless we construe entering the gate as "walking a mile," the gate would have transported him through the mountain in any case, thus qualifying as a portal. | |
| S Mar 19, 2016 at 12:38 | history | suggested | OrangeDog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2014 at 16:57 | comment | added | Questioner | It is definitely a magical realm, but the hypothesis of my question is that, earlier in history people thought magical realms as being a part of our reality. That gods lived on mountains, and demons out at sea, and all sorts of magic and beasts existed beyond the maps. A place where there are ruby mountains and angels is definitely magical and wondrous, but nonetheless part of this plane of existence, from the perspective of a person from that age. It may sound like not our world to you, because of a modern perspective, but was it a seperate dimension to the person who wrote it? | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 16:26 | comment | added | smci | @Questioner: perhaps, but "mountain ranges of red ruby with angels on them" doesn't sound like this world to me? | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 10:35 | comment | added | Questioner | This is a strong contender. However, as I mention in a comment on another answer, it's not entirely clear that the door Bulukiya walks through is a portal like we conceive of it, or a threshold to another realm that is still within our dimension. If, when Bulukiya closed the door, he looked behind him and the door was no longer there, or standing on it's own in a way that one could walk around it, then it's definitely a portal. But, if that door is still there and part of a wall or something, then we might imagine he has merely stepped over a border. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 5:00 | history | edited | smci | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Dec 13, 2014 at 15:55 | history | suggested | OrangeDog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2014 at 4:27 | history | edited | smci | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2014 at 1:34 | history | answered | smci | CC BY-SA 3.0 |