Other than the festivals of Parentalia and Lemuralia, these rites at the mundus cerialis on particular dies religiosi are the only known, regular official contacts with the spirits of the dead, or Di Manes.

The corresponding word in Latin is mundus, literally " clean, elegant ", itself a loan translation of Greek cosmos " orderly arrangement.

In the 8th century, a famous epigram attributed to the Venerable Bede celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is variously quoted: Quamdiu stat Colisæus, stat et Roma ; quando cadet colisæus, cadet et Roma ; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus (" as long as the Colossus stands, so shall Rome ; when the Colossus falls, Rome shall fall ; when Rome falls, so falls the world ").

The name of the Globe supposedly alludes to the Latin tag totus mundus agit histrionem, in turn derived from quod fere totus mundus exerceat histrionem —" because all the world plays the actor "— from Petronius, which had wide circulation in England in the Burbages ' time.

The name " Mondeo " derives from the Latin word mundus, meaning " world ".

" As a representation of space, Caelum is one of the components of the mundus, the " world " or cosmos, along with terra ( earth ), mare ( sea ), and aer ( air ).

On August 24, October 5 and November 8, it was opened with the official announcement " mundus patet " (" the mundus is open "), and offerings were made there to agricultural or underworld deities, including Ceres as goddess of the fruitful earth and guardian of its underworld portals.

The rites of the mundus suggest Ceres as guardian deity of seed-corn, an essential deity in the establishment and agricultural prosperity of cities, and a door-warden of the underworld's afterlife, in which her daughter Proserpina rules as queen-companion to Pluto or Dis.

An inscription at Capua names a male sacerdos Cerialis mundalis, a priest dedicated to Ceres ' rites of the mundus.

While the mundus was open, the spirits of the dead could lawfully emerge from the underworld and roam among the living, in what Warde Fowler describes as ‘ holidays, so to speak, for the ghosts ’.

The days when the mundus was open are identified in the oldest Roman calendar as C ( omitiales ) ( days when the Comitia met ) but by later authors as dies religiosus, when it would be irreligious to perform any official work: this apparent contradiction has led to the suggestion that the whole mundus ritual was not contemporary with Rome's early calendar or early Cerean cult, but was a later Greek import.

Nevertheless, the days when the mundus was open were connected to the official festivals of the agricultural cycle ; the mundus rite of August 24 follows Consualia ( an agricultural festival ) and precedes Opiconsivia ( another such ).

Jung was transfixed by the idea that life was not a series of random events but rather an expression of a deeper order, which he and Pauli referred to as Unus mundus.

Totus mundus agit histrionem was, according to this explanation, therefore adopted as the theatre's motto.

* 24: sacrifices to Luna on the Graecostasis ; and the first of three days when the mysterious ritual pit called the mundus was opened

* 5: second of the three days when the mundus was opened

: For nix was scattered o ' er this mundus,

Brown also discovered a pit ( mundus ) that he thought was connected to the first rituals of foundation carried out at Cosa in 273 B. C.

The origins and location of the mundus pit are disputed.

There are 44 species in nine genera represented, the giant sand stargazer ( Dactylagnus mundus ) being the largest at 15 centimetres in length ; all other species are under 10 centimetres.

The maxim fiat justitia, ruat caelum (" Let justice be done, though the heavens fall "), used by Lord Mansfield in Somersett's Case and in reversing the outlawry of John Wilkes, and in the alternate form fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus by Ferdinand of Habsburg, is sometimes attributed to Piso, but this is disputed.

Jung and the Challenge of Psychophysical Reality mundus.

Jung and the Challenge of Psychophysical Reality mundus.

Jung and the Challenge of Psychophysical Reality mundus, Part 1: The Battle of the Giants.

Jung and the Challenge of Psychophysical Reality mundus, Part 2: A Psychophysical Theory.

* Synchronicity as a mode of relationship that is not causal, an idea that has influenced Wolfgang Pauli ( with whom he developed the notion of unus mundus in connection with the notion of non-locality ) and some other physicists.

Jung and the Challenge of Psychophysical Reality mundus.

This may represent a secondary or late function of the mundus, attested no earlier than the Late Republican Era, by Varro.

The investiture controversy had shattered the early-medieval equilibrium and ended the interpenetration of ecclesia and mundus.

It may have held historic significance as the location of an Etruscan mundus and altar.

A bookseller in Oxford records the sale of " mundus a play " in 1520.

Some were male ; her senior priest, the flamen cerialis, also served Tellus and was usually plebeian by ancestry or adoption.

The last time I saw Bird, at Jimbo's Bob City, he was so gone -- so blind to the world -- that he literally sat down on me before he realized I was there.

It is power with which we can literally rebuild the world, provide adequate housing, food, education, abundant living for everyone everywhere.

He depicted Jesus as one who literally believed the end of the world was coming in his own lifetime and believed himself to be a world savior.

This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term, literally meaning rebirth, describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world.

Cairo ( ;, literally " The Vanquisher " or " The Conqueror "), is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and its metropolitan area is the 16th largest in the world.

A whole group of people, literally everyone, believed a version of the world that was entirely wrong, and my accidental investigation of the story provided a different version of what happened.

The word " ecumenical " derives from the Greek language "", which literally means " the inhabited world ", – a reference to the Roman Empire that later was extended to apply to the world in general.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

However, this is quite literally impossible, the only way in which one can know the world is through the means by which they know the world, a method cannot justify itself.

In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term ' international ' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances ; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.

This etymology was furthered in the Chinese by the tendency of some Chinese translators, notably Kumarajiva, to use the variant Guānshìyīn, literally " he who perceives the world's lamentations " -- wherein lok was read as simultaneously meaning both " to look " and " world " ( Skt.

The name Thule was chosen because it was the most northerly trading post in the world, literally the " Ultima Thule ".

Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English, Old High German, Gothic Midjun-gards ; literally " middle enclosure ") is the name for the world ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds and in Norse mythology.

In early Germanic cosmology, the term stands alongside world ( Old English weorold, Old Saxon werold, Old High German weralt, Old Frisian warld and Old Norse verǫld ), from a Common Germanic compound * wira-alđiz literally the " age of men ".

This process continued in Manichaeism's meeting with Chinese Buddhism, where, for example, the original Aramaic karia ( the " call " from the world of Light to those seeking rescue from the world of Darkness ), becomes identified in the Chinese scriptures with Guan Yin ( or Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit, literally, " watching / perceiving sounds the world ", the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion ).

There are literally hundreds of different divinatory techniques in the world.

This quote is a metaphor because the world is not literally a stage.

It is unknown if Plato's ideas of idealism have some earlier origin, but Plato held Pythagoras in high regard, and Pythagoras as well as his followers in the movement known as Pythagoreanism claimed the world was literally built up from numbers, an abstract, absolute form.