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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cosmogony \Cos*mog"o*ny\ (-n?), n.; pl. Cosmogonies (-n?z). [Gr. kosmogoni`a; ko`smos the world + root of gi`gnesthai to be born: cf. F. cosmogonie.] The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato.
The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled
philosophers of all ages.
--Goldsmith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields. 2 Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe. 3 The creation of the universe.
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Wikipedia
Cosmogony (or cosmogeny) is any model concerning the origin of either the cosmos universe) Developing a complete theoretical model has implications in both the philosophy of science and epistemology.
"Cosmogony" is a song by Icelandic artist Björk, released as the second single from her eighth album Biophilia. The song was released on iTunes on July 19, 2011. It was also released as an app, which served as the "mother app" for the Biophilia app. It was released as part of The Crystalline Series alongside the first single from the album " Crystalline" on CD and vinyl.
Usage examples of "cosmogony".
The cosmogonies of the Delta: Sibu and Nait, Osiris and Isis, SU and Nephthys--Heliopolis and its theological schools: Ra, his identification with Horus, his dual nature, and the conception of Atumu--The Heliopolitan Enneads: formation of the Great Ennead--Thot and the Hermopolitan Ennead: creation by articulate words and by voice alone--Diffusion of the Enneads: their connection with the local triads, the god One and the god Eight--The one and only gods.
The muskrat is also the simple machinery in the cosmogony of the Takahlis of the northwest coast, the Osages and some Algonkin tribes.
Africa, to the work in wood and metal of the Bambara of the upper Niger and a host of others: the products of an African consciousness and cosmogony and care for the decorative arts of life that made, and make, a world of their own.
Turnu then, rather than Ra, was placed by the Heliopolitan priests at the head of their cosmogony as supreme creator and governor.
Evil Principle against the Principle of Good and Light, has been represented in every cosmogony, under many varying forms.
The first, "Ever," began: In the Gnostic cosmogonies The demiurgi knead and mold A red Adam who cannot stand Alone.
In the Gnostic cosmogonies the demi-urgi knead and mold a red Adam who cannot stand alone.
And to all the things that are less than religion and that seek to comprehend it, to cosmogonies and philosophies, to creeds and formulæ, to catechisms and easy explanations, the attitude of the samurai, the note of the Book of Samurai, will be distrust.
Even though whole peoples and languages have attempted to fathom the depths of the universe in myths, cosmogonies, and religions, their supreme, their ultimate attainment has been this cheerfulness.
The mystic school of Joseph de Maistre, which at that time enlivened what were called the ultra journals with high-sounding cosmogonies, would have said that Javert was a symbol.
Perhaps it is not altogether useless to point out plainly that in concrete reality these various cosmogony myths are not so sharply opposed as they are in the abstract types in which we have classified them.
In the later Hebrew cosmogony the position was reversed and the sun became the major luminary, while the moon became female, as in classical mythology.
In a cosmogony myth we hear of the god Chimini-qiiagua (guardian of the sun), who opened the house in which the heavenly body was shut up.