Why this word is great
COSMOGRAM — [Noun] A flat geometric figure or diagram that symbolically represents the structure or totality of the universe according to a specific cosmology. From the combining form cosmo-, from the Greek kósmos ("order, ornament, world/universe"), and the suffix -gram, from the Greek grámma ("something written, a drawing"). Unlike "cosmology" (which is an abstract intellectual system) or "mandala" (which is a ritually prescribed, often circular devotional icon), a cosmogram is a functional, flattened architecture of belief. It is the labyrinth incised on a cathedral floor, the nested rings and cardinal lines scratched onto a ceremonial Yoruba bowl, or the stark, inked axis mundi on a medieval parchment—a fixed compass for the soul, drawn by a species desperate to locate itself at the center of an indifferent expanse.