Is the world itself alive?
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Is the world itself alive?
This is the question the working synthesis answers outright. Most other records do not. Do not promote metaphor, relation, or sacred order into “organism” unless the record does.
Quoted from Origin / Reality
Yes — reality itself is alive; humanity participates in the organism
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Relational living world; other-than-human persons
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Among the strongest living-world records. Not identical to the working synthesis.
Interconnected process (Heaven / Earth / humanity, or cosmic pattern)
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Created, ordered, or conditioned — not recorded as one organism
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- JudaismCreation by God.
- ChristianityCreation by God.
- IslamCreation by Allah.
- EnochicCreated cosmos under divine order.
- HinduReality and cosmos expressed cyclically; varies enormously by school.
- BuddhistNo single creator required.
- EgyptianOrdered cosmos emerges from primordial state.
- MesopotamianGods establish cosmic order.
- SumerianNo single cosmogony in the texts filed here. Kingship is lowered from heaven.
- NorseCosmos organized from primordial processes.
- MayaCreation involves successive ordering or attempts.
- ZoroastrianOrdered creation opposed by destructive force.
- LDSEternal or preexistent elements/intelligences; God organizes creation.
- ScientologySpiritual beings precede present embodied existence.
Physical processes; life is biological within the cosmos
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A living cosmos in one philosophical text, not in all
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Full of living souls — not one organism
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Creation pervaded or populated — not filed as one organism
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- SikhOne God, who creates and pervades the world.
- ShintoLand and kami arise in myth. There is no single creator-god doctrine across Shinto.
- ChineseHeaven and generative process. Not one creation myth across Chinese tradition.
- IncaViracocha, or other figures, orders the world in some Inca and Andean accounts. Local origins differ.
Cosmos often a prison, not a living heart
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Cosmos called living in several Hermetic texts
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A Hermetic sentence. Not the working synthesis.
Country lived with — not one continental organism
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Creation valued, not one organism
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Unplaced
These records were not filed in any shape of this metric. The cell is still quoted.
- HaudenosauneeA sky world is above. Sky Woman falls through an opening. Animals dive, and earth is placed on a turtle’s back. Tellings differ by nation. This is not the Anishinaabe account.
- LakotaNot one story under both names. A Lakota telling has the people emerging at Wind Cave, in the Black Hills. That emergence is not filed as a Dakota origin. Dakota origin is Unclassified / Source Needed.
- DakotaUnclassified / Source Needed.
- DinéEmergence upward through earlier worlds into this surface world. First Man, First Woman, and Changing Woman (Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé) belong to these narratives. The number of earlier worlds is not the same in every telling. This is not a Hopi emergence.
- HopiThe people emerge upward through earlier worlds, by a sipapu, into this one. Maasaw meets them here. Clan tellings of the migrations differ. This is not the Diné emergence.
- IrishIrish tales begin with successive settlements, not creation from nothing.
- WelshUnclassified / Source Needed.
- GaulishUnclassified / Source Needed.
- MāoriUnclassified / Source Needed.
- HawaiianUnclassified / Source Needed.
- TahitianUnclassified / Source Needed.