That she has so far acquiesced in the larger interpretation of Genesiacal cosmogony, that now the literal six-day theory would be very unsafe, forbids us to judge any present interpretation of other parts by the number, noise, or notoriety of its adherents.

The least original of the group, John Gilbert Cooper, versified in The Power of Harmony Shaftesbury's cosmogony.

Huxley says that the cosmogony which stubbornly resists the conclusions of science, is due rather to the account in Paradise Lost than to Genesis.

[Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology^; cosmology, cosmography^, cosmogony; eidouranion^, orrery; geodesy &c (measurement) 466; star gazing, star gazer^; astronomer; observatory; planetarium.

The Cosmogony, and a small part of the History immediately following.

Postulating, for the purpose of his cosmogony, two, and only two, absolute entities, matter and spirit,Mr. Ewbank makes force a property or attribute of the former, which the latter can only direct or make use of, not originate.

The myth which I have here given in brief is a prominent one in Aztec cosmogony, and is known as that of the Ages of the World or the Suns.

This would be a most appropriate figure of speech to describe a rich tropical landscape, "carpeted with flowers," as we say; and as the earth is, in primitive cosmogony, older than the sun, I suspect that this story of Quetzalcoatl and his sister refers to the sun sinking from heaven, seemingly, into the earth.

Mrs. Marvell's classification of the world into the visited and the unvisited was as obsolete as a mediaeval cosmogony.

It may be said that this version of the cosmogony is incomplete because it does not account for the origin of any of the gods except those who belong to the cycle of Osiris, and this objection is a valid one; but in this place we are only concerned to shew that R[=a], the Sun-god, was evolved from the primeval abyss of water by the agency of the god Khepera, who brought this result about by pronouncing his own name.

The great cosmic gods, such as Ptah and Khnemu, of whom mention will be made later, are the offspring of another set of religious views, and the cosmogony in which these play the leading parts is entirely different.

Taaroa, whose name was spelt differently in separated archipelagos, was the father of the Tahitian cosmogony.

Its use dates from the time when the cosmogony was thought to be young and life to be of very recent appearance.

Even with Brahmanism, it seems to be in some distant manner connected, for the latter teaches in its cosmogony, the successive appearance of Demiurges, and wise menthe fourteen Manus, who, at various periods helped to complete the work of creation and proclaimed the Brahmanical law.

The Cabalists gave a prominent place to light in their system of cosmogony.

The Chaldean cosmogony taught that in the beginning "all was darkness and water."

Hence this symbol is introduced into the cosmogony of nearly all nations; and there are few persons, even among those who have not made mythology their study, to whom the Mundane Egg is not perfectly familiar.

The geological difficulties of the Mosaic cosmogony were also at that time exciting attention.

EROS (in Latin, Cupido), the Greek god of love, the son of Aphrodité, and the youngest of the gods, though he figures in the cosmogony as one of the oldest of the gods, and as the uniting power in the life of the gods and the life of the universe, was represented at last as a wanton boy from whose wiles neither gods nor men were safe.

In the shortest (but probably not the earliest) form of the cosmogony, the beginning of all things is found in the watery abyss.

The list of deities (as in the Greek cosmogony) seems to represent several dynasties, a conception which may embody the belief in the gradual organization of the world.

The portion on the left contains a whole poem of mythologic cosmogony, treated with that philosophy and that erudition which the Germans carry into compositions of this kind; the right, purely anthropologie, represents the birth, development, and evolution of humanity.

In union with popular and unconscious imagination, it generates mythology; in union with imagination and reason, it gives birth to theology and cosmogony; in union with imagination, reason, and experience, it is the source of philosophy; in union with the same, together with the artistic sense and high degrees of imaginative sympathy, it creates epic poetry and art.

1-7, 231-3. Articles, "Evolution" and "Cosmogony," in Ency.

He would not have been afraid even of the nightmares of cosmogony, for he had no fear in him.