Gate Mugs
Description: Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based near San Diego, California. It was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985). On March 26, 1997, members of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group in a house in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe. They had participated in a mass suicide, a coordinated series of ritual suicides, in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp. Just before the mass suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: "Hale–Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate ... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming.
Description: The Puerta de Alcalá is a neoclassical monument in Madrid, located in the city's Plaza de la Independencia, it was originally one of the five gates to the city walls and is now a beloved symbol of Madrid. This is a drawing of the Puerta de Alcalá in Japanese woodblock print (ukiyo-e) style printing.
Description: The Heaven's Gate Away Team Design is inspired by the UFO religious millenarian cult formed by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles in 1974. The followers of Applewhite believed that they were to ascend to a spaceship that was hidden in the tail of the Hale–Bopp Comet. This belief led to 39 members of Heaven's Gate committing ritual suicide in a house in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe.
