Polar Cosmology

(working title)

A forthcoming book by Gyrus

From the invention of fire to global warming, this is a richly varied exploration of the polar imagination. Shamanic and religious fantasies of the pole star... the mystique of the North... the poetics of the ice caps. A cosmological history of the species from the perspective of the axis mundi, exploring its relationship to our conceptions of the sky, architectural expressions, death and altered states, social structures, and liminal figures in mythology... And finally, creative analysis of the impact of the Copernican Revolution and its fundamental reshaping of our world.

Gyrus is a writer, independent publisher, and web developer. He edited Towards 2012 and Dreamflesh Journal, and wrote Archaeologies of Consciousness and War & the Noble Savage. He lives in north London. More information: dreamflesh.com