It connects with thetheogony ascribed to Hesiod (which has Asiatic aspects), in that both begin with Chaos, and the Gods of Hesiod are born later.
The Aryans in India lost themselves in metaphysical abstractions, and made of fire, water, and air a theogony in which the anthropomorphic element was altogether effaced.
As to the fable of Pygas being changed into a crane, Banier suggests, that the origin of it may be found in the work of Antoninus Liberalis, quoting from the Theogony of Bœus.
The teaching of the priests evidently desired to grasp the connection of life, and attain to a theogony and a theory of creation.
Though Xenophanes thus appears (like Pythagoras) mainly as a religious dogmatist, yet theogony and cosmogony were so intimately connected in the sixth century B.
His negation of theogony was tantamount to a negation of cosmogony.
E) Plato interrupts the thread of his own speculations on cosmogony, to take in all the current theogony on the authority of King Nomos.
Side-note: His censures upon the received Theogony and religious rites.
Eleatic philosophy--Xenophanes 16 His censures upon the received Theogony and religious rites ib.
Max Mueller in his various essays on these subjects, and which traces at least the Indo-European theogony to a mere personification of natural objects.
Except in name, the Zeus of Hesiodic theogony has scarcely anything in common with the Zeus of the Homeric hierarchy of gods.
This should not be claimed for it, but neither may this be said of the Hesiodic theogony or the Babylonian creation myths.
This is exemplified in Polynesia, where we find a rich theogony alongside of cults that have not advanced essentially beyond the stage of totemic magic beliefs.
The Theogony of Hesiod, or Book of Genesis of the Greek gods, gives us the history of three generations of deities.
On the basis of this he develops the most magnificently poetic epic of a Christian mythological Theogony and Cosmogony.
Clement seems to agree, describes it as a thoroughly monistic system, in which the theogony is developed not by emanation from above downwards but by evolution from below upwards.
I do not speak of the later mythology; nor of Hesiod, whose Theogony so marvellously spoils what it systematizes; but of Homer, in whom the ideal Olympus attained its perfection at a stroke.
In the Orphic Theogony a similar origin is ascribed to the egg, from which springs "the Egg-born Protogones," the Greek counterpart of the Egyptian Phtha.
It is customary now to attribute the Theogony and the Works and Days to the close of the eighth century and the other poems to the seventh.
It is true that minstrels are mentioned beside kings in a passage in Hesiod's Theogony (v.
The Magian who stands by sings the theogony over it, for such, according to the Persians, is the nature of the prayer.
The Theogony embraces subjects of a higher order than the Works and Days.
The Orphic theogony is again another advance, having new fictions and new personages, as in the case of Zagreus, the horned child of Jupiter by his own daughter Persephone.
The theogonyof Homer is extended by Hesiod in many essential points.
The well-known variations of their theogony are not merely similar legends of different localities, they are more frequently the successive improvements of one place.
In the theogony of the ancient inhabitants of this country, we have an example of a slowly-growing, slowly-changing mythology, such as no other nation in the world can supply.
Mythology and pagan theogonyhad received their death-blows; superstition, bigotry, and dogmatism were elbowed aside and gave place to dawning science.
The Church issued its edict against heresy (and any doctrine that taught a belief antagonistic to the accepted tenets of pagan mythology and theogony was heresy), and hurled its anathemas against the heretic.
The tide of life retreated, an entiretheogony vanished, exorcised, both of them, by the sign of the cross.
In that description is the preface to a theogony of which Hesiod wrote the final page.
Muir, in his article on the 'Vedic Theogonyand Cosmogony,' p.
In the Veda, then, we can study a theogony of which that of Hesiod is but the last chapter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theogony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
