cosmogony
- noun
- /kɒzˈmɒɡəni/
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cosmogonía
- In a recent interview, Young Bear (1992b:23) says, "I attribute my writing to my grandmother, who instilled in me some of the early aspects of Mesquakie cosmogony and ideology."
He writes a work that is, you know, the cosmogony, right and theogeny.
- He writes a work that is, you know, the cosmogony, right and theogeny.
- Parmenides, as Borges points out, taught in various places a few years after his death and pedicles constructed a laborious cosmogony.
Examples
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Of particular significance here is the widespread occurrence, from Western Europe to Asia, Polynesia, and the Americas, of the progression from the continuous to the discrete in a cosmogonic context, as the actual means by which the cosmogony is effected.
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In his second "Nature," Emerson goes into the problems of cosmology and cosmogony.
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Here, the fragmentation of the cosmic ladder or tree is quite clearly identified with the cosmogony.
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As Mircea Eliade points out, the cosmogony "becomes the exemplary model for 'creation' of every kind" (1963, 21).
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While emphasizing the varying levels of uncertainty involved, a variety of alternative cosmogonies were presented, along with the current scientific understanding of the origin of the universe, the origin of the elements, and the origin of life on Earth.
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Most ancient cosmogonies concentrate on this aspect and explain how 'everything' has come into being (Norberg-Schultz 1980, 24; italics in the original).
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What Brébeuf and Sagard perceived as important aspects of indigenous cosmogony were not understood by the Wendats to have the same importance.
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And the subsequent ritual fragmentation of this primordial wholeness implicitly constitutes or signifies the cosmogony itself.
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During the discussion of alternative cosmogonies, students were shown The Creation (Gratz 1981), a short animated art film recounting the CL creation myth.
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Ancient cultures often developed distinct cosmogonies to explain the creation of the world around them.
How Scientific
Surface Forms
Morphology
cosmogony = cosmo + gony
The meaning depends on specialized classical combining forms, so an average B1 learner is unlikely to infer it from the parts.
Etymology
Cosmogony comes from the Greek parts kosmos ('world') and gonē ('birth'). So, cosmogony means the 'birth of the world' and can be a story or theory that explains how the universe began.