The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, world tree), in certain beliefs and philosophies, is the world center, or the connection between Heaven and Earth. As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet. At this point travel and correspondence is made between higher and lower realms. Communication from lower realms may ascend to higher ones and blessings from higher realms may descend to lower ones and be disseminated to all. The spot functions as the omphalos (navel), the world's point of beginning.
The image is mostly viewed as feminine, as it relates to the center of the earth (perhaps like an umbilical providing nourishment). It may have the form of a natural object (a mountain, a tree, a vine, a stalk, a column of smoke or fire) or a product of human manufacture (a staff, a tower, a ladder, a staircase, a maypole, a cross, a steeple, a rope, a totem pole, a pillar, a spire). Its proximity to heaven may carry implications that are chiefly religious (pagoda, temple mount, minaret, church) or secular (obelisk, lighthouse, rocket, skyscraper). The image appears in religious and secular contexts. The axis mundi symbol may be found in cultures utilizing shamanic practices or animist belief systems, in major world religions, and in technologically advanced "urban centers". In Mircea Eliade's opinion, "Every Microcosm, every inhabited region, has a Centre; that is to say, a place that is sacred above all." The axis mundi is often associated with mandalas.
Mundi is a town under Khandwa district in the Indianstate of Madhya Pradesh.
It is a thousand years old town. It is surrounded by significant forest area which belongs to Narmada River Valley.
It is 120km from Indore, the commercial capital of the state.
Demographics
As of 2012 India census, Mundi had a population of 30,000. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Mundi has an average literacy rate of 72%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 52%. In Mundi, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.
The name of the city is derived from "Mundari" (meaning ring or circle shape). During the rise of Buddhism, the East Nimar region was included in the Avanti Kingdom under Chand Pradyota Mahesana, which was later added to the growing empire of Magadha by Shishunaga. From the early 2nd century BC to the late 15th century AD, the Nimar Region (earlier a part of Khandesh) was ruled by many emperors from many dynasties, which include Mauryas, Shungas, Satvahanas, Kardamakas, Abhiras, Vakatakas, Imperial Guptas, Kalchuris, Vardhanas (of Harsha Vardhana fame), Chalukyas, Kanungos, Rashtrakutas, Paramaras, Faruki etc. A Well is situated at ‘’’Koteshwer’’’ or ‘’’Loteshwer’’’, created by Pandhawas. ‘’’Renuka Dham’’’ is another ancient temple. Since the mid-16th century to the early 18th century, the Nimar region, was under the rule of Aurangzeb, Bahadur Shah, Peshwas, Sindhia, Bawaniya, Holkar, Pawar, (Marathas), Pindaris etc. Later from early part of the mid-18th century, the management of the Nimar region came under the British.
The Đàn đáy is a Vietnamese plucked lute with three strings, a trapezoidal wooden body, and a very long wooden neck with ten raised frets. Players formerly used silk strings, but since the late 20th century have generally used nylon.
Usage
It is used primarily in Northern Vietnam, and is one of the accompanying instruments used in ca trù.
In the late 20th century, a modernized version of the electric bass guitar in the shape of the đàn đáy was developed for use in the neo-traditional music composed and performed at the Hanoi Conservatory. Unlike the đàn đáy, this instrument has a solid wooden body and metal strings, and without raised frets.
Etymology
In the Vietnamese language, đàn is a classifier used primarily to refer to string instruments, and đáy means "bottom." Thus, the instrument's name translates literally as "bottom string instrument." However, the instrument's body has no back. According to this website, the instrument was originally called vô để cầm, literally "bottomless stringed instrument."
The ney (Persian:نی / نای), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. The ney has been played continuously for 4,500–5,000 years, making it one of the oldest musical instruments still in use.
"The Persian ney consists of a hollow cylinder with finger-holes. Sometimes a brass or plastic mouthpiece is placed at the top to protect the wood from damage, but this plays no role in the sound production." The ney consists of a piece of hollow cane or reed with five or six finger holes and one thumb hole. Modern neys may be made instead of metal or plastic tubing. The pitch of the ney varies depending on the region and the finger arrangement. A highly skilled ney player, called neyzen, can reach more than three octaves, though it is more common to have several "helper" neys to cover different pitch ranges or to facilitate playing technically difficult passages in other dastgahs or maqams.
Ipso Facto, Axis Mundi! Sandtime bled, die for the truth Drop of plague in the vein of the crowd One will be enough to suffocate The misery this world has turned into Ergo a cabeça sim mas apenas para sentir A lâmina fria que me beija a nuca Ipso Facto, Axis Mundi! Poison dart shot in the poor Seed of hope spilled by the sick Another lie will be enough to illuminate The misery the race has turned into Ergo a cabeça sim mas apenas para sentir A lâmina fria que me beija a nuca Ipso Facto, Axis Mundi! Equinox in every word Falling leaves in every soul In every word in every soul
But after going down to Axis Mundi, she should come out as a different person ... By the time Cate, May and Keiko resurface from Axis Mundi, it was 2017, two years after the former two women had fallen through that portal.
He spent 20 days in Akron painting the newest mural on the exterior of the Akron Civic Theatre at Lock 4, above Michael Ayers' jazz legends mural and next to El Mac and Aiseborn's huge 2020 "Axis Mundi" depicting two children ... "I find it distracting.
A new poem by John F Deane. John F Deane’s most recent publications are Selected and New Poems (Carcanet) and a memoir, Song of the Goldfinch (Veritas). Photograph. NickBradshaw. John F Deane ... Now ... along our axis mundi, while at crossroads, farm- ... .
I was extraordinarily fortunate to meet the esteemed Dr. TomCummins nearly twenty years ago in Cusco, Peru - one of the great world centers, or axis mundi ... Huaca is the Quechua word for sacred essence, objects and places ... Dr. ThomasB.F ...KEEP READING ... .
A SoloRiff,” is its own axis mundi through time. Running at La MaMa through March 24, the 90-minute show follows the free-wheeling, jazz-inflected stylings of Beat poets and writers like Allen Ginsburg and Jack Kerouac... This is Boppenheimer ... ....
The king wants to learn painting. But the sage tells him that first, he must learn the theory of dancing ... Its location must be carefully chosen, for ideally it has to represent the axis of the world, the axis mundi, and radiate spiritual energy ... ....
Alan Garner is sitting in a high-backed leather porter’s chair right inside the hearth enclosure of an immense fireplace, with a chimney stack stretching up 27ft and a very strange-looking firepit ... ‘Axis mundi… the heart of all that is ... .
Towards the end, Cate, Keiko, and May make their way back to Earth from Axis Mundi with the help of Hiroshi and Kentaro’s work at Apex Cybernetics ... But for Keiko, it had only been 57 days since she entered Axis Mundi in 1959.
Apple TV+)Keiko Is Back From Axis Mundi ... Although Axis Mundi, as Keiko calls it, is crawling with Titans just like Hollow Earth, this realm isn’t fully within Hollow Earth territory, but rather functions as more of an in-between place.
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