Cosmos Body of God

COSMOS THE BODY OF GOD: ISA PURUSHA TATVA
M.M.NINAN
"Extended from the human "family unit" by affinity and consanguinity are concepts of family that are
physical and metaphorical, or that grow increasingly inclusive extending to community,tribes, village,
city, region, nationhood, global village and humanism. "
"All human societies organize, recognize and classify types of social relationships based on relations
between parents and children (consanguinity), and relations through marriage (affinity). These kinds of
relations are generally called kinship relations. In most societies kinship places mutual responsibilities
and expectations of solidarity on the individuals that are so related, and those who recognize each other
as kinsmen come to form networks through which other social institutions can be regulated. Among
the many functions of kinship is the ability to form descent groups, groups of people sharing a
common line of descent, which can function as political units such as clans. Another function is the
way in which kinship unites families through marriage, forming kinship alliances between groups of
wife-takers and wife-givers. Such alliances also often have important political and economical
ramifications, and may result in the formation of political organization above the community level."
"Humans often form ethnic groups, such groups tend to be larger than kinship networks and be
organized around a common identity defined variously in terms of shared ancestry and history, shared
cultural norms and language, or shared biological phenotype. Such ideologies of shared characteristics
are often perpetuated in the form of powerful, compelling narratives that give legitimacy and
continuity to the set of shared values. Ethnic groupings often correspond to some level of political
organization such as the band, tribe, city state or nation." (wiki)
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