: In her framework, time and space were inseparable. The ritual calendar (composed of a 365-day solar year and a 260-day divinatory cycle) functioned to synchronize social and political life with the perceived order of the cosmos.
: She posits that cosmovision served a critical social function: to legitimize and justify the existing political order. By controlling the calendar and the observation of nature, the ruling class framed their power as part of the natural, divine order. Key Works and PDF Resources johanna broda cosmovisi%C3%B3n pdf
Broda’s “Lob des Nicht‑Wissens” also foregrounds negative knowledge : the acknowledgment that some aspects of reality are fundamentally unknowable. This stance resonates with notion of Gelassenheit (releasement) and the Zen idea of mu (emptiness). : In her framework, time and space were inseparable