The first part of it is devoted to the cosmogony and traditional lore; the rest gives an account of the Quichés, who, at the time of the Conquest, were the dominant people in the Central American regions south of the great forest.
The cosmogony and mythical lore of the Quichés seem to have their root in the beliefs and facts of a time far more ancient than the national beginning of this people.
The account of the creation, with every thing else in this cosmogony and mythology, is original, like the civilization to which they belong.
Next we will give you the cosmogony of the Vedas, as it is presented in what is known as the mystic hymn of the Vedas.
The Phœnician cosmogony presents, first, an ether or a mist diffused in space.
God was with Moses; his cosmogony bears evidence of inspiration.
The document, however, that gives the most valuable information as to the cosmogony of the Mexicans is one known as "Codex Vaticanus," from the library where it is preserved.
How much of that mediaeval cosmogony do educated men believe, in the sense in which they believe that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or that if they steal their neighbour's goods they commit a sin?
The cosmogony of the ancient Egyptians, though more obscure, is given by Diodorus Siculus.
It is unnecessary to multiply quotations to prove, that the ancients were not only acquainted with the cosmogony of Moses, but received it as true; to which they added their own coloring.
At the Arts and Crafts Exhibition we find the cosmogony of Moses, not the cosmogony of Darwin.
Agassiz will no longer hesitate to declare the Mosaic cosmogony utterly inconsistent with the demonstrated truths of geology, and will cease pretending any reverence for the Jewish scriptures.
He says the Cosmogony of Moses has been believed in, and has been received as the highest truth by the very brightest names in science.
Do you mean to say that all the great living scientists regard the Cosmogonyof Moses as a myth?
And such is thatcosmogony and astronomy of the Brahmins to which their religion, in its character as a revelation, stands committed, and in which a very lenient criticism has found the geologic revolutions.
The cosmogony of Cosmas was also that of the doctors of Salamanca; and the views of Columbus were denounced as heterodox because they failed to conform to it.
Footnote 17: In the Cosmogony the gods are the sons of the Manes, xii.
The same vague views in regard to cosmogony and eschatology obtain in all save the outspoken sectarian tracts, and the same uncertainty in regard to man's future fate prevails in this whole cycle.
And now Lucretius shall describe the formation of the different parts of the world according to the cosmogony of Epicurus.
Modern investigators, principally in Germany and France, find in the Edda a complete system of cosmogony and of a religion almost inspired, so beautiful do they make it.
It must be allowed that the Bible cosmogony and its stories about deity, origin of man, etc.
This cosmogony is, as Eusebius complains, deliberately atheistic; and it further systematically explains away all God stories as being originally true of remarkable men.
The Byblian cosmogony may be conceived as an atheistic refinement on those of Babylon, adopted by the Jews.
In this Persian cosmogonythe name of the first man was Adomah, and of the woman Hevah.
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 Talmudic Hebrews.
All so-called "revealed" religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified and a moral code more or less pure.
It is like the cosmogony of the Eastern people which fabled that the earth rests upon the back of an elephant.
In truth, this would-be scientific mode of speech is as anthropomorphic as is the cosmogony of Hesiod, only on a smaller scale.
It is not necessary for me to enter here into the nature of the conversations I had with him on the most important and vital points affecting universal cosmogony and the human race and its destiny.
Their cosmogonyis a paraphrase of that of Genesis (Squier, Serp.
The muskrat is also the simple machinery in the cosmogony of the Takahlis of the northwest coast, the Osages and some Algonkin tribes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cosmogony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
