ENVS 1000 Lecture 20: ENVS 1000 - Reading The Human Dimension 1
1 Feb 2017
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The human dimension 1: myth, cosmos, and nature. Myths are stories powerful enough to be taken away as true. Operate near or at the conceivable limits of desire. Myths are basically created for a society to explain itself to itself. This raises a fundamental question about who we think we are. Cosmologies: overall maps of how the universe is structured. Ontologies: explanations of the nature of being; what it means to exist. Every culture has a story for birth, death, suffering, existence etc. = archetypes (basic patterns of stories that appear worldwide) Oldest operate on a set of principles associated with resemblance and analogy. In rituals of early peoples, connections were made between space/time to sacred space/time. Many rituals are created to be organized such that they mirror sacred time/space. Parts of earth were considered to be connected this way (trees, mountains, cities or temples that bought one closer to the heavens)
