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AXIS MUNDI
[noun]
(also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, columna cerului, centre of the world) - in religion or mythology, Axis mundi is the world centre and/or the connection between Heaven and Earth. As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses a point of connection between the sky and earth where the four compass directions meet.
Because it is an idea that unites a number of concrete images, no contradiction exists in regarding multiple spots as “the centre of the world”. The symbol can operate in a number of locales simultaneously.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m23b547Eja1r47bczo1_500.jpg)
AXIS MUNDI
[noun]
(also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, columna cerului, centre of the world) - in religion or mythology, Axis mundi is the world centre and/or the connection between Heaven and Earth. As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses a point of connection between the sky and earth where the four compass directions meet.
Because it is an idea that unites a number of concrete images, no contradiction exists in regarding multiple spots as “the centre of the world”. The symbol can operate in a number of locales simultaneously.
