Viconian Philosophy & Ouroboros Architecture
The Viconian Historical Cycle & Ouroboros Wheel
In his 1725 treatise Scienza Nuova (The New Science), Giambattista Vico formulated the storia ideale eterna (ideal eternal history)—a recurring cycle of three historical ages followed by a ricorso. James Joyce constructed the four books of Finnegans Wake upon this very cyclical wheel.
Interactive Cyclical Wheel (Click any quadrant)
Book I • pp. 3–216
The Age of Gods (Theocratic / Divine)
The Parents & The Giant
Viconian Institution:Religion, Sacred Fear, Burial of Dead
Thematic Architecture
The cosmic genesis, the primordial fall of Finnegan/Humpty Dumpty, the terror of thunderclaps 1–6, the emergence of the patriarchal mountain (HCE), the hen digging the sacred letter from the dung-heap, and the washerwomen talking by the river at twilight.
"In the first age, religion; in the second, marriage; in the third, burial. The thunder is the voice of God startling the giants into reverence and caves." — Samuel Beckett (1929)
Chapters in Book I