Cosmology

This weeks class was on worldviews, cosmologies, and religion and how it relates to healthcare. It was interesting to see how various types of cultures have different views and how sometimes it can be source of conflicts when deciding on health care interventions. I redid the Astro chart and I had to look at my birth certificate to see what time I was born at. I usually don’t believe in these astrological signs or palm reading but it doesn't hurt to look. My rising sun, or the first impression…

to interpreting leadership and the rise of political systems. It includes evidence such as material culture, architecture, and landscapes, as well as cosmos recreation. It is important for post-processualists to understand prehistoric ideas and cosmologies not just as social pressures but as actual archaeological astronomy. It is different than processualism in that it is the archaeology of symbols and meanings. It was influenced by leaders such as Marx who reacted to the pervasive and dominant…

Astrolabes, an analysis in Islamic context Astronomical instruments from the ancient world were generally built upon various mathematical principles and hold much sophistication in their use and form. Back then, these instruments held much significance and were countlessly used in day-to-day life, since much of day-to-day life revolved around the sky and cosmos. One such instrument is the astrolabe. The astrolabe is an astronomical instrument that is considered to have originated from Ancient…

involves seeing the world empty of inherent existence. It helps meditator to be able to look into the vast, empty space from the top of mountains. Mountains have always been thought of as pillars separating heaven and earth. From one ancient Chinese cosmology, the realm of heaven covered the realm of earth and from this belief arose the idea that heaven could fall down if not supported. The mountains were believed to perform…

The world has 7.6 billion number of individuals living across the giant oceans, in wide fields, on large ice, and everywhere all around the Earth. Each people live and grow in different conditions. They grow with different cultures, traditions, beliefs, and environment. Therefore, many religions also exist within our Earth. Religion is any cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, text, ethics that relate humanity to the supernatural or transcendental. Because the world…

White female Lucy extends her hand to touch the finger of the living Lucy primate in a shot that reviews Michelangelo's 'Formation of Adam' subtle element from the roof of the Sistine Chapel- such a minute holds in suspension the topic of racial cosmology even as it highlights the distinctions in skin appearance between the lily-white on-screen character Scarlett Johansson as Lucy and the vigorously made up, digitized and dull composition of the Lucy primate. Additionally, the film goes back in…

Amma is a Hyderabadi Muslim woman who practices spiritual healing. Healing responsibilities are usually relegated to male Sufi pīrs, however, Amma is successful in the role, despite her gender. Women come to her healing room because she is more patient and understanding, and that they don’t have to traverse the gender boundary to get treatment. Not only does Amma’s practice transcend gender boundaries, but it is also a caurasta between Islamic and Hindu religions. Despite Amma stepping outside…

up refers higher value, status and prestige, whereas down points towards lower value, status and prestige. Historically women, nature, animals are considered as down category, so the up category always exploited the down. In this context, Plato’s cosmology is explained as rational male form is considered as cosmos and irrational female matter is considered as chaos. Plato repeatedly highlighted the same concept…

Johnson. To understand the centrality of hair to African people one must do so through the lens of an African worldview and cosmology, only then will the full scope of its importance be thoroughly understood. Throughout the ages,from the Ancient Nile Valley civilizations to the movement West and the establishment of Western African empires, hair has maintained a spiritual, social…

relative to space. It is the answer to very natural questions: the exploration of time and space. When I go and wonder about what there is above the sky, or what was there at the beginning, astronomy, through its different sections (such as planetary, cosmology etc…) helps me to answer this questions. I’m grateful to live in an age already advanced in this matter. However, there is so much more to explore, and so much more answer to find, and finding these answers is, according to me, what…