theogony
IPA: θiʌgʌni
noun
- (chiefly in ancient religion) The origination of gods or a narrative describing the origin of gods.
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Examples of "theogony" in Sentences
- Courting Tory disapproval, she has connected her afterlife with the theogony of the skeptic poets.
- But since, next to Homer, Hesiod wrote his Works and Days, who will believe his drivelling theogony?
- Oriental theogony, a whole cluster of faces, crowded together but on different surfaces so that one does not see them all at once.
- The Phœnicians had been long a powerful people, having a theogony of their own, before the Hebrews became possessed of a few cantons of land near their territory.
- Each divine figure that arises is connected with a part of the physical universe, so his theogony is also a cosmogony (an account of the generation of the world).
- It will do your cause no good to say so to men who know the poets; for they know how very ridiculous a theogony they have composed, -- as we can learn from Homer, your most distinguished and prince of poets.
- Now 'theogony' means 'origin of the divine'; and I use the associated adjective because the Pseudo-Dionysius thought of creation as destined to be 'divinized' through our theosis: a gift from the Father given through the Son and in the Holy Spirit.
- Homer I suppose were four hundred years before my time and not more, and these are they who made a theogony for the Hellenes and gave the titles to the gods and distributed to them honours and arts, and set forth their forms: but the poets who are said to have been before these men were really in my opinion after them.
- I cannot recall the exact source offhand, Sumer I think but compound imagery was the mode of explaining cosmogenesis and theogony in pre-literate and pari-literate times and we find the residue of similar explicatory "myths" in subsequent sets of icons such as Anahita, whose personification of a complete cornucopia is evident in her titulary associations with "water" and all living things.
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