mundi

Poyas, or Cingulus mundi, that is, the girdle of the world, or of the earth.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Then there was heard and seen a multitude of birds, so many that there hath not been seen the like tofore, over the church, and began a song of right great melody, like as it had been the obsequies of her, and their song was: Regnum mundi, which is sung in the praising of virgins.

The Golden Legend, vol. 6

This is what the Adepti understand by their anima mundi, that is to say, the spirit, or breath, or wind of the world; or examine the whole system by the particulars of Nature, and you will find it not to be disputed.

A Tale of a Tub

Cingulus mundi, that is, the girdle of the world, or of the earth.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04

And although in diuers places they haue diuers names, yet are they commonly called Cingulus mundi, that is, the girdle of the world.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04

My favorite so far, a mappa mundi placing Jerusalem at the center of the universe, with the three surrounding continents stretching off like the petals of a trillium.

she's the same little girl that used to hang around my door

By Plato and other philosophers extended to the anima mundi, conceived to animate the general system of the universe, as the soul animates the individual organism.

SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1156

The animating principle of the universe as a whole, the soul of the world or anima mundi.

SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1156

Therefore, Augustine Thompson OP says that the cathedral was a presentation of the whole order of the cosmos, the machina mundi.

The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 2

As Tarnas continues, Primal experience takes place within a world soul, an anima mundi, a living matrix of embodied meaning.

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