Maydanov, A. S. Roll Call of the Archaic and Modern Cosmologies

Abstract: The article describes what Veda’s authors thought about cosmogenesis and analyzes the dynamics of their views. The author of the article shows how the picture of cosmogenesis successively moved from anthropomorphous to biomorphic and physiomorphic models. It is shown that the very first cosmology already formed the main topics of the future cosmology concerning fundamental features of the Universe — the beginning, genesis, structure, sources of dynamics and human as an element of the world. The author studies peculiarities of cosmological way of thinking of archaic people, methods and techniques of that type of thinking and the strategy of the Universe history knowledge that remains even nowadays. All these factors are described from the point of view of their development and role for the modern cosmological thinking. The article suggests new interpretations of a few extremely complicated but very informative images — Universal demiurges who are being analyzed from epistemological point of view.

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