- below the lands of Elves / righteous angels in heaven and the gods / fallen angels in the surrounding sea / chaos above the firmament
- and above the land of the Giants / demi-god] and the Dead.
The Bifrost Bridge, extended from Middle-earth to Asgard across the 1st heaven (atmosphere surrounding earth, the 2nd heaven (spiritual chaos of “outer space”), to the 3rd heaven, dwelling place of God and his righteous sons.
Geard / guard meaning ‘enclosure’ is what the Greeks called the οικουμένη (oikoumenē) or “the abiding place of men”, what the Romans called the “Medi-terranean”, which remains the center of attention for both earth history and maps, and what the Hebrews called Eden / delight, the whole earth, not just the garden, since “the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden.” (Genesis 2:8)
In 1912 the German geologist Alfred Wegener conceptualized Pan-gea/All-earth by recognizing that the recently unearthed fossil evidence connected the continents like puzzle pieces, imaginatively conceiving of continental drift as the mechanism for the breakup in order to support the unsubstantiated and actually disproven long earth ages theory for the evolutionary paradigm.

Santorini, Greece is a microcosm of the spasmodic breakup of the whole earth,with ongoing activity still occurring.

