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--- cosmology [2020-06-13 12:57] – [Developmental cosmology] concavenator
+++ cosmology [2020-06-14 22:08] (current) – [Cosmic-egg cosmology] concavenator
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 There are three words in the [[Chaatai#Language|Chaatai language]] that might be translated as "world":
   * **//tagra//** primarily refers to the material, observable world: land, sea, and sky. In a narrow sense (the one used elsewhere in this wiki), it refers to the Antarctic continent and the surrounding waters, at least out to the Wall of the Sea. In the broadest sense, it refers to all physical existence, from the ground to the stars, as opposed to the realm of deities, spirits, and pure thought (compare the English terms "mundane" or "terrene").
-  * **//dji//** (literally "egg", though it might be translated as "orb" or "sphere") refers traditionally to the spherical shell in which the flat disk of Tagra is embedded. In modern scientific language, it refers primarily to planet Earth, as opposed to the specific continent of Tagra.
+  * **//dji//** (literally "egg", though it might be translated as "orb" or "globe") refers traditionally to the spherical shell in which the flat disk of Tagra is embedded. In modern scientific language, it refers primarily to planet Earth, as opposed to the specific continent of Tagra.
-  * **//t'aakai'a//** (literally "all-around") is the closest to the English term "universe", referring to the totality of existence. It specifically includes all that is not directly observable by the //'ikra//: the world of abstract concepts, the space below Tagra, hypothetical lands beyond the Wall of the Sea, and so on.
+  * **//t'aakai'a//** (literally "all-around") is the closest to the English term "universe", referring to the totality of existence. It explicitly includes all that is not directly observable by the //'ikra//: the world of abstract concepts, the space below Tagra, hypothetical lands beyond the Wall of the Sea, and so on.
 ===== Mirror-world cosmology =====
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 ===== Cosmic-egg cosmology =====
+In the [[Takrakaya]] tradition, the concept of //dji// or "egg" is taken more literally. The cosmic sphere is, in fact, the incubating egg of a transcendent Being (Takrakaya //khah//, Chaatai //kaya//) that will eventually hatch into a higher-order cosmos. All that exists in the universe takes part in the Being's development according to unfathomably complex rules, that may well seem arbitrary and senseless to //'ikra// observers.
+This cosmology has important ethical applications. The respect of natural, social, and moral norms, as discovered through the millennia by prophets and philosophers, is necessary for the proper maturation of the Being. In the mildest interpretation of the cosmic-egg cosmology, those individuals who follow correctly rite and traditions will be incorporated into the Being itself to partake in Its existence. Those who do not, will be cast away as allantois (afterbirth); it's not clear what this fate entails exactly, but it can be assumed to be highly undesirable.
+Some currents believe that sufficient disorder in the material world -- widespread vice and corruption, tyranny or rebellion, natural disasters -- will abort the Being, preventing Its hatching. The lineage of the [[Takrakaya#Divine Empress|Divine Empresses]] in Tsang-ha has the practical and ceremonial responsibility, among other things, to prevent this fate.
+A yet darker interpretation of this model, found among discontented elements of Chaatai and Takrakaya society, holds that the Being //is already stillborn//, and the world is Its decaying corpse. This entails the necessity, depending on the subject, of either withdrawing from the material world and the greater society, or of deliberately destroying it as a final purification.
 ===== Many-world cosmology =====
 ===== Scientific cosmology =====