3.
C O S M O V I S I O N
A commonly shared worldview or understanding about the nature of reality as perceived by a group of people |
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 & arranged & defined to begin with |
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 |
encompassing the entirety of the 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 |