All religiouscosmogonies are products of the imagination.
The psychological truth and necessity which lies at the foundation of all these theogonies and cosmogonies is the truth and necessity of the imagination as a middle term between the abstract and concrete.
The eyes of a god or demiurge become the sun and moon in the cosmogonies of Egypt, China, Scandinavia (?
The primeval history comprised in the first ten chapters of Genesis, sublime above the cosmogonies and theogonies of all other nations, contains also sublimer myths.
I do not mean that the cosmogony of the Babylonians was the original from which that of the Bible was copied, for in this particular matter of cosmogonies the construction of the Biblical account exhibits great individuality.
If we compare the Hebrew account of the Creation with the cosmogonies of Berosus and Philo (pp.
How high the cosmogonies go, of which the most essential traits were found in the fragments of Berosus (p.
The cosmogony of Genesis, unlike the cosmogonies of the heathen, is prefaced by the originating act of God, and is supplemented by successive manifestations of creative power in the introduction of brute and of human life.
Accordingly we find that in all primitive languages and cosmogonies the moon takes its name from a root which signifies "the measurer," while the sun is the bright or shining one.
Science contributed its share, sometimes in the form of crude cosmogonies and first attempts at ethnology, but principally through the medium of astronomy.
The chief difference is the same as in the Chaldaean and Biblical cosmogonies of the creation of the universe--viz.
It is clear that in both the Egyptian and Assyrian cosmogonies the upper gods had in their employ many ferocious monsters.
The motif of the antagonism between light and darkness appears to be attached to or involved in certain myths, especially the great cosmogonies and stories in which solar deities figure prominently.
In half-civilized peoples elaborate cosmogonies arise, in which the sky is introduced along with sun, moon, and stars.
Take the mythic cosmogonies of ancient Greece, Scandinavia, and India, and the geologies and astronomies of the present day, and compare their pages, changing things personal into things impersonal.
In truth, the old mythic cosmogonies of the ancient East, South, and North are not a whit too grotesque in their descriptions of the embryo earth, when it lay weltering in a sort of uterine film, assuming form and regular lineaments.
All the old mythic cosmogonies are strangely suggestive and full of mystic import,--that of Northern Odinism more than any other.
These cosmogonies narrate a contest between man and Nature, in which the former fell, and must ever fall, for the laws of Sol and his seasons none can resist.
Probably the discoverers of these cosmogonieswere men, for they seldom give to woman a very distinguished origin.
This is a point on which the various cosmogonies of nations widely differ.
Lao Tzu's "Tao" There are other cosmogonies in Chinese philosophy, but they need not detain us long.
I need not stay to point out what close analogies these two conceptions find in several of thecosmogonies of the Old World.
The sponsors of these cosmogonies agree neither as to their number nor their order of succession, and it is obvious that a mistaken zeal to bring them as near as possible to the Biblical tradition has been at work.
The struggle between gods and nature-demons is a recurrent theme in the cosmogoniesof all cultural peoples.
As a second essential element of cosmogonies we find accounts of battles of the gods, in which hostile demons are vanquished and a kingdom of order and peace is established.
All this goes to show that cosmogonic myths, in the poetic forms in which cosmogonies have come down to us, are relatively late mythological products.
He himself is in every respect an unlimited personal will, and is, therefore, really just as much a superpersonal being as the battling gods of other cosmogonies are subpersonal.
The cosmogonies of cultural peoples, however, differ from the otherwise similar stories of those semi-cultural peoples whose mythology consists exclusively of such cosmogonic maerchen.
For upon close examination it will be found that the gods who figure in these cosmogonies are not those with whose traits the hero saga, and the hymnology connected with it, have made us familiar.
It entered as a primary element into the sacred fables, the cosmogonies and the Mysteries of antiquity.
The subject on which he treated occupied in his time all men's minds: the poets sang of cosmogonies and theogonies, and the philosophers wrote treatises on the birth of the world and the elements of its composition.
Phoenician cosmogonies would appear, from the notices which have come down to us,[24] to have been composite.
Greek cosmogonies (the orientalism of which is clear) will be found in Hesiod, Theog.
In spite of the frequent overgrowth of a luxuriant imagination, the leading ideas of really primitive cosmogonies are extremely simple.
Of the Babylonian and Israelitish cosmogonies we have several more or less complete records.
The Jewish creation is a mere copy of cosmogonies of eastern countries, all of whom, China excepted, pretend to account for the origin of things.
None the less let it be noticed that many cosmogonies assign the origin of the universe or at least the world or its life to the disintegrated parts of the body of a great animal or giant.
The dismemberment motive of the cosmogonies is usually associated with a deluge motive.
I shall ask you to assume with me that in this way the larger cosmogonies and cosmologies of the race as well as the larger ethical traditions have arisen.
Compare his narrative with the cosmogonies of the ancient nations.
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