COSMOGONY


Meaning of COSMOGONY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

His latest proposal flies in the face of conventional cosmogony .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A useful approach is to begin by comparing Epicurean cosmogony .

All cosmogonies, by definition, have as their crucial feature the giving of an account of the genesis of the world.

In the Orphic cosmogonies, Dionysos was present; thus he has a cosmological location.

The Orphic cosmogonies exhibit a concern to portray humans as well as the world in which they live.

The Orphic cosmogonies provide information which is helpful at this point.

The specific shape the Orphic cosmogonies give the world have been delineated in this chapter.

This statement Aristotle found in poems called Orphic is in accordance with a motif found in the Orphic cosmogonies.

We have already noticed that a chief motif of the Orphic cosmogonies is their portrayal of the development of new life.

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