3.

C  O  S  M  O  V  I  S  I  O  N

* C O S M O -
​from the Greek κόσμος :
'The world or universe as
 an ordered system'

- V I S I O N *
from the Latin vīsiō :
'Seeing, or 
point of view'

​A commonly shared worldview
or understanding about the nature of reality 
perceived by a group of people

as a settled perspective
central to their society’s
specific cultural mindset

& manifestly embodied
​in all aspects & expressions
of their particular
way of life

(especially the most common 
everyday  seasonal  & annual 
customs & practices
belonging to those long-held
ancestral traditions
by which their overall social milieu 
was formally oriented 
or arranged & defined
to begin with: 

—​ an Imago mundi
(an image or vision of the world)
or total macrocosmic
way of seeing the world

lived out
from the fundamental
point of view
conventionally sanctioned
by the local population

& habitually inherited
from one generation to the next
by way of word of mouth transmissions
& repetitive ritual renditions
which promote regular rote recall:

​

—​ a more or less complete mythological system
encompassing the entirety of a group’s 
general base of knowledge & belief
vis-à-vis every feature 
of the richly multifaceted
reality all around them

in a total cosmological image
of all things
envisioned as component 
parts of a single
​widespread 
integrally-unified whole . . .