Cosmos of Possibility: The Architecture of Becoming 4 Mythic Cosmos

Long before science or philosophy formalised the cosmos, myth structured human possibility. Myths are not primitive errors or fanciful stories; they are symbolic architectures that orient collectives within relational worlds.

A mythic cosmos delineates:

• Axes — verticals of power, authority, and hierarchy;

• Horizons — boundaries between the sacred and profane, the known and unknown;

• Centres — focal points of meaning, ritual, and collective attention.

Within these frameworks, human action and thought are both constrained and enabled. Myths map the possible: they define which paths can be taken, which behaviours are sanctioned, which outcomes are imaginable. They do not merely describe the world; they mediate the field of possibility itself.

From creation myths to heroic cycles, mythic cosmoses shape potentiality. They provide symbolic scaffolding for decisions, social organisation, and ethical orientation, ensuring that what is possible is never arbitrary but embedded in a relational web of meaning.

Viewed through a relational lens, mythic cosmologies are proto-codifications of possibility. They offer a template for understanding how humans construe the field of becoming — a first insight into the interplay between relation, constraint, and the unfolding of actualisation.