theogony

Now 'theogony' means 'origin of the divine'; and I use the associated adjective because the Pseudo-Dionysius thought of creation as destined to be 'divinized' through our theosis: a gift from the Father given through the Son and in the Holy Spirit.

Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007

Now 'theogony' means 'origin of the divine'; and I use the associated adjective because the Pseudo-Dionysius thought of creation as destined to be 'divinized' through our theosis: a gift from the Father given through the Son and in the Holy Spirit.

Reditus Mike L 2007

I cannot recall the exact source offhand, Sumer I think but compound imagery was the mode of explaining cosmogenesis and theogony in pre-literate and pari-literate times and we find the residue of similar explicatory "myths" in subsequent sets of icons such as Anahita, whose personification of a complete cornucopia is evident in her titulary associations with "water" and all living things.

Disagreement Behind the Scenes Jan 2008

The Phœnicians had been long a powerful people, having a theogony of their own, before the Hebrews became possessed of a few cantons of land near their territory.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Each divine figure that arises is connected with a part of the physical universe, so his theogony is also a cosmogony (an account of the generation of the world).

Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007

Homer I suppose were four hundred years before my time and not more, and these are they who made a theogony for the Hellenes and gave the titles to the gods and distributed to them honours and arts, and set forth their forms: but the poets who are said to have been before these men were really in my opinion after them.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Oriental theogony, a whole cluster of faces, crowded together but on different surfaces so that one does not see them all at once.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

But since, next to Homer, Hesiod wrote his Works and Days, who will believe his drivelling theogony?

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

It will do your cause no good to say so to men who know the poets; for they know how very ridiculous a theogony they have composed, -- as we can learn from Homer, your most distinguished and prince of poets.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Courting Tory disapproval, she has connected her afterlife with the theogony of the skeptic poets.

Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_ 1998