golden gates
Shimmering ornate portals
Golden gates typically refers to the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, and by extension the Golden Gate Bridge spanning it.
The bridge's iconic orange towers have made the Golden Gate shorthand for San Francisco itself.
In religious contexts, golden gates are the entrance to heaven: Saint Peter awaits at the golden gates.
- bridgeStructure spanning an obstacle
- San FranciscoNorthern California metropolis
- San Francisco BayNorthern California coastal inlet
- bayPartially enclosed water
- fogLow-lying cloud cover
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- fantasywizard, witch, magic, dragon, elf
- Heavenparadise, eternal life, kingdom of heaven, New Jerusalem, heavenly city
- Heavenlycelestial, divine, eternal, paradise, halo
- heavenly visionsangelic choir, archangels, ascension, celestial beings, cherubim
- OlympiansZeus, Michael Phelps, Hera, Usain Bolt, Poseidon
SYMBOLIC DESTINATION (heaven vs. hell)
golden gatesgates of hell
Entrance to damnation
hellmouth · the underworld · abyss · Sheol · the void
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