Cosmic Order
214 books featuring this theme
Cosmic order is the patterned structure that organizes time, space, and authority. It legitimizes rule and ritual by aligning human institutions with a stable universe.

Mahabharata
Vyasa • Indian

Rigveda
Anonymous • Indian

Poetic Edda
Anonymous • Germanic

Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson • Germanic

Enuma Elish
Anonymous • Mesopotamian

Metamorphoses
Ovid • Roman

Book of the Dead
Anonymous • Egyptian

Early Upanishads
Anonymous • Indian

Popol Vuh
Anonymous • Mesoamerican

Kojiki
O no Yasumaro • East Asian

Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri • East Asian

Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus • Greek

Theogony
Hesiod • Greek

Atharvaveda
Anonymous • Indian

Lotus Sutra
Anonymous • Indian

Baal Cycle
Anonymous • Levantine

Atrahasis
Anonymous • Mesopotamian

The Descent of Inanna
Anonymous • Mesopotamian

Shahnameh
Ferdowsi • Persian

Avesta
Various • Persian

The Descent of Ishtar
Anonymous • Mesopotamian

Classic of Poetry
Anonymous • East Asian

Homeric Hymns
Anonymous • Greek

Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus • Greek