What is "destructions"

Usage examples of "destructions".

This system of calculating dates also expressed beliefs about the past—notably, the widely held belief that time operated in Great Cycles which witnessed recurrent creations and destructions of the world.

Here, however (as in Central America) the inundation is not viewed as an isolated event but as one of a series of destructions and remakings of the world.

Elsewhere, in other cultures, different numbers of creations and destructions are recorded.

Such minor differences concerning the precise number of destructions and creations envisaged in this or that mythology should not distract us from the remarkable convergence of ancient traditions evident here.

And what they seem to be saying to us is this: that cyclical, recurrent and near-total destructions of mankind are part and parcel of life on this planet, that such destructions have occurred many times before and that they will certainly occur again.

And I will tell you the reason of this: there have been, and there will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes.

Finally, whatever may have been the case as to this change of sides, or flight, or migration, or failure in battle on the part of the gods, the name of Christ had not yet been proclaimed in those parts of the earth when these kingdoms were lost and transferred through great destructions in war.

He dealt with the destructions of the storm as best he could, covering the one error he had committed, in failing to ask of Solgah concerning the behaviors of the seasons and the climate of Kesrith.

What would the human race be like without tyrantswithout wars, vast destructions, forest fires?

During their fifty years of systematic destructions of records and technology, the Keepers had driven Naetai into a dark age of suspicion and isolation from which it was difficult to recover.