Cosmologies

Mythological cosmologies have been creatively imagined whereas the expanding multi-galactic cosmos has been discovered recently and is still being discovered. Since I value both imagination and truth, I value the many imagined universes and the one empirical universe. I mention this because another Zen practitioner could not see how it was better to know about the scientifically discovered universe than just to live conceptually inside one of the many mythological universes. I can only reply that I think that truth is a value in and of itself.

Poul Anderson wrote fiction set in the galactic universe and in different mythological universes and also linked them in a multiverse. We know that there is no Yggdrasil but we imagine what it would be like to go there.