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- noun A flat geometric figure depicting a
cosmology
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Examples
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Within the center of the cosmogram and precisely above the ashes of Hughes are the words My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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The terrazzo and brass African cosmogram titled Rivers on the floor in front of the Langston Hughes auditorium in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem designed by artist Houston Conwill, poet Estella Conwill Majozo, and architect Joseph DePace
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Nineteenth century corncob cosmogram set on the dirt floor, beneath the slant roof, left intact the afternoon that someone came and told those slaves
Archive 2008-12-22 Eddie Gehman Kohan 2008
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Nineteenth century corncob cosmogram set on the dirt floor, beneath the slant roof, left intact the afternoon that someone came and told those slaves
"Poet Inaugurate" Elizabeth Alexander is Obsessed With Food, Too Eddie Gehman Kohan 2008
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The cosmogram would have delineated this as a sacred, ritual space.
Hoodoo Cache 2000
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As archaeologists continued to dig, the shape of a cosmogram, a sacred
Hoodoo Cache 2000
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Nineteenth century corncob cosmogram set on the dirt floor, beneath the slant roof, left intact the afternoon that someone came and told those slaves
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Nineteenth century corncob cosmogram set on the dirt floor, beneath the slant roof, left intact the afternoon that someone came and told those slaves
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29 The design on the floor covering his cremated remains is an African cosmogram titled Rivers.
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