We need not introduce here the myth of the great cosmogonic struggle between Tiamat, the personification of Chaos, and the god Masuduk, related in a portion of the epic fragments, in cuneiform character, discovered by George Smith.
In the second cosmogonic poem the account is more similar to that of the second chapter of Genesis, and its present form originated in or near Babylon.
The cosmogonic poetry is in its outlines not unlike that of Hesiod, but develops the ruder ideas at greater length.
The cosmogonic hymns of the Rigveda are not only thus the precursors of Indian philosophy, but also of the Puranas, one of the main objects of which is to describe the origin of the world.
The term purana is already found in the Brahmanas designating cosmogonic inquiries generally.
Two other cosmogonic poems explain the origin of the world philosophically as the evolution of the existent (sat) from the non-existent (asat).
Closely allied to these poetical riddles is the philosophical poetry contained in the six or seven cosmogonic hymns of the Rigveda.
With the theory of the Song of Creation, that after the non-existent had developed into the existent, water came first, and then intelligence was evolved from it by heat, the cosmogonic accounts of the Brahmanas substantially agree.
To support their explanations of the ceremonial, they interweave exegetical, linguistic, and etymological observations, and introduce myths and philosophical speculations in confirmation of their cosmogonic and theosophic theories.
They deal with social customs, the liberality of patrons, ethical questions, riddles, and cosmogonic speculations.
Among the cosmogonic and theosophic hymns the finest is a long one of sixty-three stanzas addressed to the earth (xii.
The chapter concludes with a myth which forms a connecting link between the cosmogonic conceptions of the Rigveda and those of the law-book of Manu.
The Yajurveda further contains fantastic cosmogonic legends describing how the Creator produces all things by means of the omnipotent sacrifice.
This conceit evidently pleased the fancy of a priesthood becoming more and more addicted to far-fetched speculations; for in the cosmogonic hymns we find reciprocal generation more than once introduced in the stages of creation.
He appears under the various names of Purusha, Vicvakarman, Hiranyagarbha, or Prajapati in the cosmogonic hymns.
True or false, this hypothesis stands to-day as the expression of the profoundest cosmogonic scientific guess that modern thought has been able to substitute for the poetic guesses of antiquity.
Another goddess, Chosartes, recalls the consort of Asshur, Kishar, of cosmogonic character.
All Semitic myths of which we have records are cosmogonic or sociologic or, in some late forms, theological constructions.
The same thing is true of certain cosmogonicmyths of the Greeks, such as the war of the Titans against Zeus and similar episodes.
Many other cosmogonic details, common to various peoples, might be added.
The purpose in the two cosmogonic poems--to explain the reduction of the world to order and the existing constitution of earth and sky--is one that is found everywhere in ancient systems of thought.
As to creation, there is no need, in a low community, to suppose more than one originator of the world, and cosmogonic theory may stop at that point, though this is not an invariable rule.
His conception of them is not cosmogonic or analytic, but personal; they are entities with which he has to deal.
In Polynesia there is a better-defined cosmogonic anthropomorphism.
In their elaborate cosmogonic myth the first actors are Coyote, First Man, and First Woman, and there is discord between Coyote and his human coworkers.
It need hardly be added that with all the similarities in the variouscosmogonic systems the diversities among different peoples are as numerous as the differences of surroundings and character.
The great cosmogonic and eschatological myths are conceived in grandiose style.
He is not worshiped--he is regarded rather as the explanation of phenomena, a genuine product of early cosmogonic science.
A Californian cosmogonic myth describes a nonmoral conflict of work between the good "Creator" and the malicious Coyote.
Some of the cosmogonic tales of the dualistic origin of the world, of the influence of the Evil Spirit, of the origin of the Bee, the Glow-worm, the Wolf and others show unmistakably such a Gnostic origin.
The existence side by side with them of other creation tales of animals is an additional support of the view that the fairy tales have not been "edited" or adapted to cosmogonic purposes to explain the origin of beast and bird.
Some of the cosmogonic legends of the Rumanians are also found among the Balkan people.
He believes that Zoroastrian teaching has penetrated far into the North and West, and has produced these peculiar dualistic cosmogonic legends.
Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.
This opinion, which allows to each a part more or less brilliant in the cosmogonic drama, is under the safeguard of too many vanities to have any thing to fear from the efforts of logic.
I proceed to indicate, in a few words, the cosmogonic system which Laplace substituted for that of the illustrious author of the Histoire Naturelle.
Towards the close of his days, for example, he overthrew with a stroke of the pen, by the aid of certain observations of the moon, the cosmogonic theories of Buffon and Bailly, which were so long in favour.
Other references in Irish texts point to the common cosmogonic myth of the earth having gradually assumed its present form.
To this would be added cosmogonic myths and speculations, and magic and religious formulæ.
Their astronomy was probably astrological[1031]; their knowledge of nature a series of cosmogonicmyths and speculations.
This grand Cosmogonic idea he taught in the Mysteries; and thus the Hierophant explained the meaning of the mystic egg, seen by the Initiates in the Sanctuary.
Cosmogonic chants of the Ancients testify to the ideas of the origin of the world, 655-u.
The Brahmins of India expressed the same cosmogonic idea by a statue, representative of the Universe, uniting in itself both sexes.
Not cosmogonic myths, but moral meanings, he had discovered in his document.
It is very well to exploit logic, and construct soul-satisfying schemes of cosmogonic symbolism, in order to represent the deepest truth of the material world.
If, on the other hand, the cosmogonic being is conceived and expressed abstractly, as is the case in religious speculation, we have also to recognise a more abstract psychological truth as its foundation.
And this predicate--the first Being, has by no means immediately a cosmogonic significance, but only implies the highest rank.
The cosmogonic principle in God, reduced to its last elements, is nothing else than the act of thought in its simplest forms made objective.
Creation is the spoken word of God; the creative, cosmogonic fiat is the tacit word, identical with the thought.
Interesting material for the criticism of cosmogonic and theogonic fancies is furnished in the doctrine--revived by Schelling and drawn from Jacob Boehme--of eternal Nature in God.
This hymn is among the earliest speculations of the Hindus regardingcosmogonic phenomena, and its pious conclusion did not satisfy the cravings of future still more inquisitive generations.
Indeed the first book of the Vishnu Purana is largely taken up with accounts of the cosmogonic process.
Lenormant's view was that the winged circle, in conjunction with the sacred tree, represented the primeval cosmogonic pair, the creative sun and the fertile earth, and was a symbol of the divine mystery of generation.
Lockyer's Meteoric Hypothesis Following up the surprising clews thus suggested, Sir Norman Lockyer, of London, has in recent years elaborated what is perhaps the most comprehensive cosmogonic guess that has ever been attempted.
A tentative cosmogonic hypothesis has been formulated to account for the motions, distribution, and observed structure of clusters and spiral nebulae.
The cosmogonic conception of Eros and his connection with Gaia is referred to in the next chapter under the latter heading (p.
Chthonian and cosmogonic deities, personifications, and minor deities in general.
Yet it seems unlikely that an order of eunuch priests like the Galli should have been based on a purely cosmogonic myth: why should they continue for all time to be mutilated because the sky-god was so in the beginning?
She was not worshipped nor did she belong to any one place, but was a cosmogonic idea.
The cosmogonic theories, therefore, were by no means important articles of belief, but rather assumptions of what the gods were likely to have done similar to the acts of men.
No nativecosmogonic myth yet recorded goes back to the first act of creation, but all start out with a world and living creatures already in existence, though not in their final form and condition.
Hewitt, The Cosmogonic Gods of the Iroquois, in Proc.
The cosmogonic narrative which forms the first part of what Geo.
From these remarks it will be clear that the preceding two or three chapters have been treating of what may properly be called the Religious and Cosmogonic Myths of the Shumiro-Accads and the Babylonians.
For example, toward the close of his days, with the aid of certain lunar observations, with a stroke of his pen he overthrew the cosmogonic theories of Buffon and Bailly, which were so long in favor.
I proceed to indicate, in a few words, the cosmogonic system which Laplace substituted for it.
However incomplete the cosmogonic knowledge of the latter may be, it nevertheless is at present established clearly enough to reject forever such a demand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cosmogonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cosmic; cosmical; universal
