Definitions
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- Of or relating to theogony.
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- adjective Of or relating to theogony.
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- adjective Of or relating to
theogony .
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Examples
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However to treat these models as merely antiquated, or superstitious, or secretly theogonic, misses an essential point, which is not only their recurrence but also the modernity of their demand.
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St. Thomas Aquinas crafted his great Summa Theologiae on a theogonic model drawn from the sixth-century Pseudo-Dionysius: that of the going forth from and return of all things to God.
Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007
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St. Thomas Aquinas crafted his great Summa Theologiae on a theogonic model drawn from the sixth-century Pseudo-Dionysius: that of the going forth from and return of all things to God.
Reditus Mike L 2007
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[1809] The confusion incident to savage theogonic reflection is illustrated by Zulu attempts to explain Unkulunkulu
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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But the reason why I single out this hymn is not so much because it throws new light on the theogonic process, but because it may help to impart some reality to the vague conceptions which we form to ourselves of the ancient Vedic poets and their surroundings.
India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861
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But this theogonic process is but one side of the ancient Vedic religion, and there are two other sides of at least the same importance and of even a deeper interest to us.
India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861
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In all these myths there is a theogonic and cosmogonic element.
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Without, then, attempting an investigation of the obscure prehistoric theogonic period, the general lines of growth of some of the principal divine personages may be followed (as far as the data permit) as examples of the way in which the great gods were gradually created. [
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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As Müller observes, "The poets of the Veda indulged freely in theogonic speculations without being frightened by any contradictions.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872
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