Keywords: Cosmology, mythology, archetype, serpent, religion 1 Prologue Between prehistoric homo sapiens and the historical society, with the latter commencing with the appearance of written records and thus of names, a great shift of paradigm of the way of thinking and communicating individual thoughts took place
None of the early civilizations lacked a cosmology or creation myths In this section a brief summary of some of these myths is presented 2 2 1 India The traditional Indian cosmology states that the universe undergoes cyclic periods of birth, development and decay, lasting 4:32 109 years, each of these periods is called a Kalpa or \day of Brahma"
338 Cosmology, Mythology and the Timeline of Light The first, the mystical, opens the participant to enter into a realization of what a wonder the universe is, ‘Myth opens the world to the dimension of mystery’ (Ibid ) Campbell's second function, the cosmological, em-braces and magnifies the domain of the empirical sciences, ‘showing
acknowledged since myth and cosmology constitute the raw material for philosophy Again, both concepts offer a perspective for an interpretation of the world and the mysteries and phenomena of existence in general GJHSS-B Classification : FOR Code: 160609, 160502 Philosophy, Mythology and an African Cosmological System
The conception of cosmology in nordic pre-Christian religion and myth has been the subject of much discussion The sources present a vague, somewhat contradictory picture, which has given rise to a number of dif-ferent interpretations Snorri claims that the earth was imagined to be disc-shaped, surrounded by ocean, with J?tunn settlements
Cosmology began when man began to ask: What is beyond the horizon and what ple, and myths about the creation and structure of the universe were incor-