cosmogony
IPA: kˈɑzmoʊgˈoʊni
noun
- The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields.
- Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe.
- The creation of the universe.
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Examples of "cosmogony" in Sentences
- The most conspicuous figure in Chinese cosmogony is P'an Ku.
- With the Phoenician sages the cosmogony was their theogony and 'vice versa'.
- I had had no lessons in cosmogony, and I had no spontaneous revelation of the true position of the earth in the universe.
- Its cosmogony is a myth read literally: its history is, for the most part, a highly immoral distortion, and its ethics are those of the
- The end of the cosmogony is the astronomical system described in section 4.2 below, in which ten heavenly bodies including the earth encircle the central fire.
- The word cosmogony is, however, usually applied to mythic accounts of the world's origin current among the peoples of antiquity and the more modern races which have not been touched by recent scientific methods.
- Just as the cosmogony is the archetype of all creation, cosmic time, which the cosmogony brings forth, is the paradigmatic model for all other times -- that is, for the times specifically belonging to the various categories of existing things.
- Originally, it opened with the three Bone cousins, Fone, Phoney, and Smiley Bone, lost in the desert after being run out of Boneville; the new version begins with a lengthy, dull cutscene in which Thorn gives a narration of Bone's cosmogony from the text of Crown of Horns.
- Chæremon had no reason for saying that the Ancient Egyptians, inventors of the sacred fables, and adorers of the Sun and the other luminaries, saw in the Universe only a machine, without life and without intelligence, either in its whole or in its parts; and that their cosmogony was a pure Epicureanism, which required only matter and movement to organize its world and govern it.
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