M Y T H S ARE H I S T O R Y
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  • Myths of Creation
    • 1 Thesis >
      • 2 Definitions
      • 3 Exposition
    • 4 First Things: Cosmogony >
      • 5 Time After Time
      • 6 From Creation To Catastrophe
      • 7 Order Out Of Chaos
    • 8 Traits, Tropes & Themes >
      • 9 Macrocosm To Microcosm
    • 10 Astronomical: Theogony >
      • 11 Geophysical: Geogony
      • 12 Ethnological: Anthropogony
    • 13 Cosmogonic Causal Chains >
      • 14 As Above, So Below
      • 15 Foregone Ages Past
      • 16 Forthcoming Future Ages
    • 17 Second Thoughts >
      • 18 But Who's Counting?
    • 19 From Myth To History >
      • 20 Cycles Of Recurrence
    • 2) Mythic Media >
      • 1 In the Beginning
      • 2 Artifacts of Cultural Memory
      • 3 Global Unanimity Uncovered
      • 4 Comparative World Mythology
      • 5 Myth-making through the Ages
  • THE CREATION OF MYTH
    • Introduction
    • Thesis
    • 1 Orality >
      • Preliterate Cultural Memory
      • Rock Art
    • 2 Authority >
      • Myth and History
      • What kind of Truth?
    • 3 Community >
      • Ritual Extensions of Myth
      • Shared Image of the World
      • Group Constructions
    • 4 Efficacy >
      • Mythic Rituals
      • As Below, So Above
      • Group Responses
      • Survival Value
    • 5 Persistence >
      • Management of Memory
      • Mutatis Mutandis
    • Caveat
    • Coda
  • MYTHS ARE HISTORY
    • 1 Premise >
      • Comparative World Mythology
    • 2 Proposition >
      • Catastrophism & Cosmogony
      • Catastrophist Speculation
    • 3 Demonstration >
      • Instability of Solar System
      • Observational Evidence
    • 2) When Seeing Was Believing >
      • 1 Primacy of Sight
      • 2 Partial Perspectives
      • 3 Similarities & Differences
    • 3) Comparative World Symposium >
      • Seeing the Past Anew >
        • 1 A New Impartial Gathering ...
        • 2 A Global Synoptic View ...
        • 3 An Interdisciplinary Chronology ...
  • The Jupiter Myth
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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'
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- 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:
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—​ 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 . . . 
  • Home
  • Myths of Creation
    • 1 Thesis >
      • 2 Definitions
      • 3 Exposition
    • 4 First Things: Cosmogony >
      • 5 Time After Time
      • 6 From Creation To Catastrophe
      • 7 Order Out Of Chaos
    • 8 Traits, Tropes & Themes >
      • 9 Macrocosm To Microcosm
    • 10 Astronomical: Theogony >
      • 11 Geophysical: Geogony
      • 12 Ethnological: Anthropogony
    • 13 Cosmogonic Causal Chains >
      • 14 As Above, So Below
      • 15 Foregone Ages Past
      • 16 Forthcoming Future Ages
    • 17 Second Thoughts >
      • 18 But Who's Counting?
    • 19 From Myth To History >
      • 20 Cycles Of Recurrence
    • 2) Mythic Media >
      • 1 In the Beginning
      • 2 Artifacts of Cultural Memory
      • 3 Global Unanimity Uncovered
      • 4 Comparative World Mythology
      • 5 Myth-making through the Ages
  • THE CREATION OF MYTH
    • Introduction
    • Thesis
    • 1 Orality >
      • Preliterate Cultural Memory
      • Rock Art
    • 2 Authority >
      • Myth and History
      • What kind of Truth?
    • 3 Community >
      • Ritual Extensions of Myth
      • Shared Image of the World
      • Group Constructions
    • 4 Efficacy >
      • Mythic Rituals
      • As Below, So Above
      • Group Responses
      • Survival Value
    • 5 Persistence >
      • Management of Memory
      • Mutatis Mutandis
    • Caveat
    • Coda
  • MYTHS ARE HISTORY
    • 1 Premise >
      • Comparative World Mythology
    • 2 Proposition >
      • Catastrophism & Cosmogony
      • Catastrophist Speculation
    • 3 Demonstration >
      • Instability of Solar System
      • Observational Evidence
    • 2) When Seeing Was Believing >
      • 1 Primacy of Sight
      • 2 Partial Perspectives
      • 3 Similarities & Differences
    • 3) Comparative World Symposium >
      • Seeing the Past Anew >
        • 1 A New Impartial Gathering ...
        • 2 A Global Synoptic View ...
        • 3 An Interdisciplinary Chronology ...
  • The Jupiter Myth