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  • noun A flat geometric figure depicting a cosmology

Etymologies

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cosmo- + -gram

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Examples

  • Within the center of the cosmogram and precisely above the ashes of Hughes are the words My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

    HW Bio: Langston Hughes « 2009

  • 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

    HW Bio: Langston Hughes « 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • The cosmogram would have delineated this as a sacred, ritual space.

    Hoodoo Cache 2000

  • As archaeologists continued to dig, the shape of a cosmogram, a sacred

    Hoodoo Cache 2000

  • Nineteenth century corncob cosmogram set on the dirt floor, beneath the slant roof, left intact the afternoon that someone came and told those slaves

    she real cool 2009

  • Nineteenth century corncob cosmogram set on the dirt floor, beneath the slant roof, left intact the afternoon that someone came and told those slaves

    DN.se - Nyheter - Toppnyheter 2009

  • 29 The design on the floor covering his cremated remains is an African cosmogram titled Rivers.

    HW Bio: Langston Hughes « 2009

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