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 //Dji// was originally purely chaotic -- containing all the matter we see today, but without distinction, structure, orientation, sequence, or identity. At the beginning of history, a spark of order (usually identified as the breath of [[Chaatai#Philosophy and religion|'Au'a]]) manifested at the upper pole of the sphere //dji//, and proceeded down. This spark broadened as it descended, leaving behind a trail of increasingly ordered bodies in the upper regions. The physical world of Tagra is the front of this advance, always a circular section of the cosmic sphere. At the present Time, Tagra is halfway down the sphere, hence at its broadest point, and therefore sustaining the maximal diversity of things.
-This circular interface between the expanding order and the contracting chaos is the only one in which life can exist, as it is both ordered enough to sustain distinct bodies and chaotic enough for these bodies to move and change. Above Tagra, one can see the already ordered regions of the cosmos: at the very top, the fixed stars, which do not move at all (it's the rotation of Tagra around its axis that produces their impression of movement); below, somewhat move chaotic, the planets, which do move but only along predictable paths; then the Sun and the Moon, which can not only move but change their nature (with eclipses, lunar phases, changes in color at dawn and sunset, etc.) Below Tagra, the primaeval chaos persists: while it cannot be directly seen, it erupts into the upper world with volcanoes and underground springs. The chaotic forces injected into the ground from below allow it to bear life, and impart Tagra its rotation.
+This circular interface between the expanding order and the contracting chaos is the only one in which life can exist, as it is both ordered enough to sustain distinct bodies and chaotic enough for these bodies to move and change. Above Tagra, one can see the already ordered regions of the cosmos: at the very top, the fixed stars, which do not move at all (it's the rotation of Tagra around its axis that produces their impression of movement); below, somewhat more chaotic, the planets, which do move but only along predictable paths; then the Sun and the Moon, which can not only move but change their nature (with eclipses, lunar phases, changes in color at dawn and sunset, etc.) Below Tagra, the primaeval chaos persists: while it cannot be directly seen, it erupts into the upper world with volcanoes and underground springs. The chaotic forces injected into the ground from below allow it to bear life, and impart Tagra its rotation.
 At some point, as order spreads down //dji//, Tagra will start contracting, finally to vanish at the lower pole, leaving behind a perfectly ordered world, completely unsuitable for life -- a permanent crystal or constellation. There are different ideas on what will happen later. One is that the ordered state will last forever; after all, when no events are possible, time no longer exists. Another is that the ordered cosmos will slowly decay back into the chaotic state, possibly for the cycle to begin all over again. Yet another is that Tagra, having reached the lower pole, will "bounce" back and travel upward, this time converting order into chaos, and so on //ad infinitum//.