In Jewish tradition, wheels or cosmic wheels representing divine structure or the arrangement of the universe in mystical thought.
From Hebrew גלים (gilim), related to gal (wheel or wave). The term appears in medieval Jewish mystical texts describing cosmological wheels. It connects to older concepts of celestial spheres in medieval astronomy and theology.
Medieval mystics imagined the universe as interlocking 'gilim' or wheels—much like complex machinery—and this image influenced scientific thinking, eventually leading to how we visualize atomic structure and planetary motion today.
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