1. Mesopotamia — Fragile Cosmos
Mythic construal: Cosmos as precarious, threatened by chaos; humans sustain order through ritual.
Relational ontology:
System/instance: the “cosmic order” as system, instantiated only through human ritual (events).
Construal: gods and chaos are symbolic construals of systemic potential vs. disintegration.
Alignment: humans must align with divine order; misalignment leads to collapse.
2. Egypt — Cycles and Renewal
Mythic construal: Cosmos as cyclical; Ma’at sustains balance; ritual renewal.
Relational ontology:
Phasing: cyclical renewal mirrors phasing across time — repetition as ontological maintenance.
Construal: Ma’at as symbolic construal of relational equilibrium.
Potential/event: the Nile flood as systemic potential; harvest as event.
3. Greece — Logos and Rational Order
Mythic construal: Cosmos from chaos via rational principles; humans as rational agents.
Relational ontology:
System/instance: logos as abstract system, instantiated in phenomena.
Construal: myth evolves toward metaphenomenal reasoning — symbolic abstraction of order.
Alignment: humans align by understanding and theorizing; epistemology becomes rational construal.
4. India — Dharma, Maya, Liberation
Mythic construal: Infinite cycles; maya as illusion; liberation (moksha) as ultimate knowledge.
Relational ontology:
Potential/event: samsara (systemic cycle) vs. moksha (exit from evental recurrence).
Construal: maya as misaligned construal; liberation as re-construal of reality.
Alignment: dharma as alignment with systemic order; moksha as transcending it.
5. China — Dao and Balance
Mythic construal: Reality as dynamic harmony; yin-yang as ontological duality; Dao as ultimate path.
Relational ontology:
System/instance: Dao as systemic potential; lived action as instantiation.
Construal: yin-yang as construal of systemic polarity.
Alignment: knowledge as attunement, reflexive phasing with shifting potentials.
6. Hebrew Bible — Covenant and Promise
Mythic construal: Linear history, covenantal relation, divine promise.
Relational ontology:
Phasing: history as linear phasing; covenant as systemic potential sustained through events.
Construal: God as construal of ultimate systemic order; promise as construal of future potential.
Alignment: human fidelity as alignment to divine systemic principle.
7. Christianity — Incarnation and Grace
Mythic construal: History transformed by Incarnation; grace as new relation.
Relational ontology:
System/instance: Incarnation as systemic potential instantiated uniquely.
Construal: Christ as construal of reflexive alignment — divine/human intersection.
Phasing: salvation history as phased re-alignment of collective construal.
8. Islam — Unity and Submission
Mythic construal: Unified cosmos (Tawhid); humans submit to divine will.
Relational ontology:
System/instance: Tawhid as total systemic potential; revelation as evental construal.
Construal: Qur’an as construal of systemic unity into discursive meaning.
Alignment: epistemology as submission — alignment through action and recognition of unity.
9. Norse Myth — Fate and Doom
Mythic construal: Fate predetermined; cosmos doomed; heroism in defiance.
Relational ontology:
Potential/event: fate as inexorable systemic potential, instantiating only as tragic events.
Construal: gods as construals of doomed systemic struggle.
Alignment: human meaning arises through misaligned defiance rather than systemic harmony.
10. Indigenous American Myths — Reciprocity
Mythic construal: Relational web of humans, animals, spirits, land; knowing is ethical participation.
Relational ontology:
System/instance: the ecological web as system, instantiated in daily events.
Construal: mythic spirits as construals of relational nodes and alignments.
Alignment: knowledge as reciprocal alignment — epistemology inseparable from ethical phasing.
11. Comparative Myth — The Meta-Level
Myth encodes:
System/instance — how order is construed and instantiated.
Potential/event — whether time is cyclical, linear, or doomed.
Alignment — how humans align with, resist, or transcend systemic potentials.
Phasing — whether history, cycles, or rituals sustain construals.
Construal — myths themselves as symbolic construals of possible realities.
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