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
- 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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