Definition of Cosmogony. Meaning of Cosmogony. Synonyms of Cosmogony

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Definition of Cosmogony

Cosmogony
Cosmogony Cos*mog"o*ny (-n?), n.; pl. Cosmogonies (-n?z). [Gr. kosmogoni`a; ko`smos the world + root of gi`gnesthai to be born: cf. F. cosmogonie.] The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato.

Meaning of Cosmogony from wikipedia

- Cosmogony is any model concerning the origin of the cosmos or the universe. In astronomy, cosmogony refers to the study of the origin of particular astrophysical...
- Apophis. Hesiod and the Pre-Socratics use the Gr**** term in the context of cosmogony. Hesiod's Chaos has been interpreted as either "the gaping void above...
- article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Mongolian cosmogony" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2014)...
- A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. While in...
- This article contains Indic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead...
- and our place in it, as is found in religions, is known as a worldview. Cosmogony is the field that studies the origin or creation of the world while eschatology...
- encomp****es concepts from Norse mythology, such as notations of time and space, cosmogony, personifications, anthropogeny, and eschatology. Like other aspects of...
- (monas) 'unity', and μόνος (monos) 'alone') is used in some cosmic philosophy and cosmogony to refer to a most basic or original substance. As originally conceived...
- In Orphic cosmogony Phanes /ˈfeɪˌniːz/ (Ancient Gr****: Φάνης, romanized: Phánēs, genitive Φάνητος) or Protogonos /proʊˈtɒɡənəs/ (Ancient Gr****: Πρωτογόνος...
- According to the Zoroastrian cosmogony, Mashya and Mashyana were the first man and woman whose procreation gave rise to the human race. The names are...