by hacking the universe into visual segments, ended the music 
of interrelation. The visual desacralizes the universe and 
produces the “nonreligious man of modern societies.”

     Historically, however, Eliade is useful in recounting how, 
before the age of the clock and the time-kept city, there was 
for tribal man a cosmic clock and a sacred time of the 
cosmogony itself. When tribal man wanted to build a city or a 
house, or cure an illness, he wound up the cosmic clock by an 
elaborate ritual reenactment or recitation of the original 
process of creation. Eliade mentions that in Fiji “the ceremony 
for installing a new ruler is called ‘creation of the world.’” The 
same drama is enacted to help the growth of crops. Whereas 
modern man feels obligated to be punctual and conservative of 
time, tribal man bore the responsibility for keeping the cosmic 
clock supplied with energy. But electric or ecological man (man