How To Use Cosmogony In A Sentence
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The end of the cosmogony is the astronomical system described in section 4.2 below, in which ten heavenly bodies including the earth encircle the central fire.
Philolaus
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Originally, it opened with the three Bone cousins, Fone, Phoney, and Smiley Bone, lost in the desert after being run out of Boneville; the new version begins with a lengthy, dull cutscene in which Thorn gives a narration of Bone's cosmogony from the text of Crown of Horns.
Archive 2007-05-01
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For example, we could imagine spherical shock waves bouncing back and forth between the centre and edge of an expanding ball of gas or plasma, such as in the tentative cosmogony I outline.
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Nothing, in fact, disturbs the grandeur and solemnity of the Mosaical cosmogony, except (as usual) the ruggedness of the bibliolater.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
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Did he present a cosmogony or cosmology in terms of the interaction of pairs of opposites?
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These books include scriptural interpretations as well as material on theosophic theology, mythical cosmogony, mystical psychology,
Truth in religions
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I knew that you could not say to yourself 'stereotomy' without being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus; and since, when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward to the great nebula in Orion, and I certainly expected that you would do so.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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I'm thinking about calling it "The Cosmogony of Cold"; if I do, there will probably be at least three cosmogonies: a Cosmogony of Fire and a Cosmogony of the Dead.
Cosmogonies
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Or can we ever hope to erect a system of cosmogony, that will be liable to no exceptions, and will contain no circumstance repugnant to our limited and imperfect experience of the analogy of nature?
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Just as the cosmogony is the archetype of all creation, cosmic time, which the cosmogony brings forth, is the paradigmatic model for all other times -- that is, for the times specifically belonging to the various categories of existing things.
Meditation: In illo tempore
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Its cosmogony is a myth read literally: its history is, for the most part, a highly immoral distortion, and its ethics are those of the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the building of a mosque, the traditional architectural forms reflect the Islamic cosmogony and its sacred texts.
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They are implicitly evoking a whole cosmogony, a religious morality and an ethics of social interaction.
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Now, if your cosmogony throws any light on this once revealed let me know.
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Parmenides was a great philosophical pioneer, who turned away from the tradition of Ionian cosmogony to attempt something fundamentally different: a deduction of the character of what is from the requirements of thought and language.
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That's really stepping into the realm of faith, belief, and religious cosmogony here.
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According to him, their cosmogony included the idea that the world was complete thanks only to the existence of other beings different from themselves.
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Stoicism is one of three main philosophical schools in Hellenistic period, its cosmogony is distinctive in the whole western age.
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The universe may not seem to make any more sense to you if your cosmogony is scientific rather than religious in nature, but in the end there is no escape from the fact that in the evolution of living systems the bias is built in.
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To understand these older conceptions of Chinese medicine is to recognize this cosmogony of the world.
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The universe may not seem to make any more sense to you if your cosmogony is scientific rather than religious in nature, but in the end there is no escape from the fact that in the evolution of living systems the bias is built in.
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Chæremon had no reason for saying that the Ancient Egyptians, inventors of the sacred fables, and adorers of the Sun and the other luminaries, saw in the Universe only a machine, without life and without intelligence, either in its whole or in its parts; and that their cosmogony was a pure Epicureanism, which required only matter and movement to organize its world and govern it.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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I believe that we can understand ceremony as a cosmogony in both discursive and performative senses.
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It's action-packed and funny, but Smith does take time to develop the plot and deliver, in digestible doses, some of the Bone universe's mythic cosmogony.
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The word cosmogony is, however, usually applied to mythic accounts of the world's origin current among the peoples of antiquity and the more modern races which have not been touched by recent scientific methods.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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There may be some valid info but it's more about cosmology, cosmogony, and mythology than on magic.
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I knew that you could not say to yourself 'stereotomy' without being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus; and since, when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward to the great _nebula_ in Orion, and I certainly expected that you would do so.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
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The most conspicuous figure in Chinese cosmogony is P'an Ku.
Myths and Legends of China
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I have too much respect for him to carry his inessentialness to my own cinema cosmogony too far into the public arena.
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With the Phoenician sages the cosmogony was their theogony and 'vice versa'.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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Its Hesiodic style was appropriate for the cosmogony he describes in the second part, but is unsuited to the arid dialectic of the first.
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He went on to say we are losing our democracy to a corporate cosmogony where people and government are secondary to business.
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The religion of the Pilgrims did not seem to be much preoccupied with questions of cosmology and cosmogony.
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The best critical writers on ancient history have agreed not to throw away the cosmogony and the hierology of Greece.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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The cosmogony is nonatomist; the accourt of the origin of animal life has closer parallels in other pre-Socratic texts than it has in Democritus; some features of the anthropology may be Democritean, but the author's reference to the crucial significance of the human hand (8. 9), which has made man the only tool-using animal, seems to go back to Anaxagoras (Aristotle, De partibus animalium
PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
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I did notice the lack of a cosmogony after the writing, when I recalled another of my matriarchies with a very explicit and ideologically twisted cosmogony that still amuses me greatly.
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I had had no lessons in cosmogony, and I had no spontaneous revelation of the true position of the earth in the universe.
The Promised Land
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The Puranic cosmogony also contains stories of the dissolution of existence in the cosmic fire that emerges from the breath of Rudra, or iva.
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Numerous thinkers and works contributed to making astronomy and the related sciences of astrology and cosmogony a near-accurate system.
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In this article, I want to focus on how their cosmogony and concept of procreation draw on the metaphors of artistic creativity.
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A creation myth is a cosmogony, a story that describes the origins of the universe.
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As an implement of power that would have been carried by the ruler, a scepter filled with such symbolism would link its bearer to a rich cosmogony.
