MYTHS  OF  CREATION

9.   From Macrocosm
​To Microcosm

By comparing & contrasting
a large number of these
complementary traits, tropes & themes 
from different parts of the world 
it becomes possible for us to outline 
corresponding elements
which frequently reappear 
in multiple cultural renditions,
in such a way that 
an abundant volume 
of coincident cross-cultural counterparts, 
demarcating successive episodes of
a longer cosmogonic storyline, 
can then become
much more clearly distinguishable.

— Most significantly, we also find that 
a multitude of these 
comparable cultural parallels
are more or less readily divisible 
across THREE contiguous domains  
or adjoining orders of existence : 


Sometimes 
the primary focus of attention

1:      is Astronomical, in that 
         the mythos was concerned w/
         interplanetary dynamics
         beheld in the heavens above; 

         sometimes 
2:      it’s Geophysical, in that 
         the mythos pertained to formative changes
         witnessed on land & sea around the globe; 

         sometimes 
3:      it’s Ethnological, in that
         the mythos centered on stages of human history 
        observed to have unfolded here below.


​But overall, we find that 
most traditional 
mythic histories attended to
all three domains the same,
spanning all the way
from the local
earthly microcosm of man
on earth below
to the all-encompassing
heavenly macrocosm of
planets & fixed stars
on high. 

— Furthermore, 
these three were so regularly 
regarded as being inextricably interrelated, 
it seems to have been virtually impossible 
for them to speak about one domain
w/out referring to the other two likewise . . .  

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