Religion and Mythology
"Carnal" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Carneal or Karnal.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. In some religions, worldliness (also called carnality) is that which relates to this world as opposed to other worlds or realms.
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