September 2015
The English word world comes from the Old English weorold (-uld), weorld, worold (-uld, -eld), a compound of wer "man" and eld "age," which thus means roughly "Age of Man."
The corresponding word in Latin is mundus, literally "clean, elegant", itself a loan translation of Greek cosmos "orderly arrangement." While the Germanic word thus reflects a mythological notion of a "domain of Man", presumably as opposed to the divine sphere on the one hand and the sphere of the underworld on the other, the Greco-Latin term expresses a notion of creation as an act of establishing order out of chaos.
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Previous posts in September 2015
- Possibilities and freedom.Peak District, UK (September 21st, 2015)
- My golden dreams. Montepulciano (September 19th, 2015)
- Sorge. St Ives, Cambridgeshire (September 18th, 2015)
- Possibilities. Bakewell, Peak District. UK (September 17th, 2015)
- Sein und Zeit. Peak District,UK (September 15th, 2015)
- Semiotics.St.Ives, Cambridgeshire (September 13th, 2015)
- Being and Dirft. Dordogne (September 13th, 2015)
- Geometry.St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK (September 12th, 2015)
- Dawn. Magical Cotswolds (September 11th, 2015)
- Being?. (September 8th, 2015)
- Being. St. Ives (September 6th, 2015)
- Being. St. Ives (September 6th, 2015)
- Being. Florencia (September 4th, 2015)
- Being. Bracciano (September 4th, 2015)
- Mental Geometry and Order. St Ives, Cambridgeshire (September 2nd, 2015)
- Evening, Kensington, London (September 1st, 2015)
- Plans. Nowhere (September 1st, 2015)
- Being. Greenwhich (September 1st, 2015)
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