Primordial is the beginning of order.
prime = the first part
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order = a system of parts
The Latin word ordo* describes a “row, line, or series,” the foundation on which order builds. A simple row of stones begins a wall; a line of chairs becomes a theater; a series of iron loops braid into a chain.
From that evolves ordior*, meaning “to begin to weave,” because the way a weaver starts is by stringing warp threads on a loom, setting up a row of parallel lines.
Primordial Mothers: weavers who have recently given birth, made obvious by the sagging abdomen and prominent nipples.
A second, generalized definition of ordior is “to begin, commence, set about, undertake.” Every beginning is an initiation into the creation of order and the mystery of making.
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second and third order: mother teaches daughter to weave.
The Mysterious Geometry of Creation
…the intellect, wishing to liberate and detach itself from the images to which it is bound, … resorts to mathematical and symbolic figures or analogies drawn from them in order to comprehend the being and the substance of things. — Giordano Bruno*
‘God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.’ — from Corpus Hermeticum as quoted by Jorge Luis Borges*
Before any beginning is the intelligible sphere: infinite, immobile, indifferent, the center of that sphere everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
The beginning of the beginning is the point: uncountable multitudes of them suspended within the sphere, raw and random chaos, each point being a center of that infinite sphere.
The beginning of form is the line: a queue of uncountable points spun into thread.
The beginning of order is the array: parallel lines, warp threads strung on a loom.
The beginning of the material world is the plane: warp and woof woven into fabric.
The beginning of life is time: the fabric cut and sewn and altered and worn and worn out.