Uranophobia

Fear of heaven, also known by its Greek-derived name uranophobia or ouranophobia, is a phobia that makes its sufferer fear heaven or the sky.
The origin of the word urano is Greek, meaning heaven, while phobia is Greek for fear.
Causes
The causes of Uranophobia, as with other phobias, can be linked to a combination of external events and internal susceptibility - of brain chemistry and life experiences.
Fear of heaven may more specifically be related to the dread of punishment in the afterlife. Psychoanalysis would see this as an animistic projection of the threatening and punitive powers of the parents - heaven or the sky being a relatively late stage in the detachment of the superego from the actual parents.
Jewish tradition
Jewish tradition highly valorised the fear of heaven, seeing it as a positive force linked both to wisdom and to personal humility.
Literary examples
W. B. Yeats in his poem 'The Cold Heaven' asked rhetorically whether after death the ghost is:
"stricken By the injustice of the skies for punishment?”

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