Cosmos of Meaning, Part 4 Mythic Cosmos

Myth is not a primitive attempt to “explain” the world. It is a mode of worlding: a symbolic architecture that situates collectives within relational patterns, giving horizon, axis, and meaning to lived experience.

Through myth, humans construe space, time, and causality. Gods, ancestors, and sacred landscapes are not representations of pre-existing realities; they are tools for coordinating perception, action, and expectation. Each mythic narrative orders relations, actualises potential, and constrains the unfolding of possibility in ways intelligible to the community.

In mythic cosmology, meaning is enacted: it emerges in ritual, story, and symbol. The cosmos is a canvas woven from relational patterns, not a container of inert matter. Mythic cosmoses orient collectives, establish hierarchies, delineate thresholds, and mark the passage from the profane to the sacred.

To study mythic cosmoses is to see how meaning, far from reflecting reality, constructs the frameworks through which reality itself can appear. Myth teaches that worlds are woven, not found — and that humans are co-weavers in the ongoing becoming of possibility.