[[merism]] [[heaven]], [[earth]] [[sky]] [[cosmos-cosmography]] *** [HEAVEN & EARTH] = [COSMOS] More specifically: [UPPER WORLD-HALF & LOWER WORLD] [UP/ABOVE & DOWN/BELOW] ## Biblio [[ramon2017]] ## Branches ### Indic > _**ubhā́v árdhau** bhavataḥ sādhū́ asmai_ “Both (world-)halves are straightforward for him” [[RV2.27.15]]d ### Italic Lat. *caelum* ‘sky’:*kaid(s)lo- ‘(upper) part (of the cosmos)’ *‘that which has been cut, part’, pl. caelī (du. *-ih 1 Weiss 2017). ### Hellenic > ὡς εἰ Γαῖα καὶ Οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὕπερθε / πίλνατο “As if the Earth and the wide Heaven above / collapsed” [[theogony]]702-3