World - Religion and Mythology

Religion and Mythology

Further information: world axis, world serpent, world elephant, Contemptus mundi, De contemptu mundi, Samsara, Maya (illusion), Church Militant, and Divisions of the world in Islam

Mythological cosmologies often depict the world as centered around an axis mundi and delimited by a boundary such as a world ocean, a world serpent or similar.

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