Search results for "Cosmogony" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ===Metaphysics and cosmogony=== Gregory's second major contribution to Christian theology was in the realm of metaphysics, where he has the ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 18:10, 31 January 2023
- The Theogony concerns the origins of the world (cosmogony) and of the gods (theogony), beginning with Gaia, Nyx and Eros, and shows a special ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- studies of nature in broad areas including cosmogony, cosmology, astronomy, biology, meteorology, geography, and others. The quote in Simplicius’ ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- Anaxagoras (c. 500 – 428 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Anaxagoras conceived the origin of the cosmos as the pre-existing, undifferentiated ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 19:07, 26 July 2023
- The Babylonian cosmogony, as outlined in the Enuma Elish and elsewhere ... * Mondi, Robert. "ΧΑΟΣ and the Hesiodic Cosmogony." ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- semitic languages. An is portrayed in Sumerian cosmogony as a dome that covered the flat earth. Outside of this dome was the primordial body of salt ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world’s great civilizations…" as ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- Emanationism is a component in the cosmology or cosmogony of certain religious or philosophical thought systems, including Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- and, as he intimated, is not to be regarded as a cosmogony, should be studied in connection with his psychology. Soul is a self-moving number, derived ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- her. For instance, in the early Enneadic cosmogony, where Atum creates the ... this version of what is called the Ogdoad cosmogony, Ra-Herakhty was depicted ...27 KB (4,192 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- a way to fit semi-divine pagan heroes into their cosmogony. The idea that the Torah was somehow changed is not in keeping with traditional Hebrew ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- within the framework of cosmology and cosmogony. Socrates was a pivotal philosopher who shifted the central focus of philosophy from cosmology ...21 KB (3,010 words) - 22:19, 30 November 2022
- * Mondi, Robert. "ΧΑΟΣ and the Hesiodic Cosmogony." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 92 (1989): 1-41. * Powell, Barry B. Classical ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- * Henning, W.B. A Sogdian Fragment of the Manichaean Cosmogony. BSOAS, 1948. * Legge, Francis. Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity, From 330 ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- sunlight. Instead of the prevailing cosmogony, where eclipses were caused by pseudo-planetary nodes Rahu and Ketu, he explains eclipses in terms ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- within the framework of cosmology and cosmogony. Socrates was a pivotal philosopher who shifted the central focus of philosophy from cosmology ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- studies merging mythology and cosmogony seeks to explain that Saturn was formerly the "sun" seen by inhabitants on Earth, and why the ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- by which humans could answer questions not only of cosmogony, but also of certain social, political and religious practices they observed. The polytheistic ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Roman representation of an event in Zoroastrian cosmogony, in which Angra Mainyu (not Mithra) slays the primordial creature Gayomaretan (which in Zoroastrian ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- and man. Rank may replace class in the Bolshevik cosmogony to satisfy human needs, but rank based on merit, not on wealth or birth... That, reduced to ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
