Cosmogony

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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 ❋ Unknown (2006)

I had had no lessons in cosmogony, and I had no spontaneous revelation of the true position of the earth in the universe. ❋ Unknown (1912)

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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The most conspicuous figure in Chinese cosmogony is P'an Ku. ❋ Unknown (1909)

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. ❋ Huffman, Carl (2008)

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. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

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. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)

With the Phoenician sages the cosmogony was their theogony and 'vice versa'. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)

And this very consideration too, continued PHILO, which we have stumbled on in the course of the argument, suggests a new hypothesis of cosmogony, that is not absolutely absurd and improbable. ❋ David Hume (1743)

Their cosmogony is a paraphrase of that of Genesis (Squier, _Serp. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

It is noteworthy that the Maoris have a cosmogony which is not unlike that of the great civilized nations of antiquity, but the origin of their scheme of the world is not clear. [ ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

Mr. Goodwin begins his paper by a kind of cosmogony of his own, which he prefaces with the following apology: -- "It will be necessary for our purpose to go over the oft-trodden ground, which must be done with rapid steps. ❋ 1813-1888 (1861)

These images simply do not reconcile with the cosmogony of Anglo male as quintessential American hero. ❋ Brock Cohen (2011)

Sixteen different indigenous groups have been formally registered as indigenous communities, all perfectly well defined through dialect, customs, food habits, rituals, cosmogony, etc. ❋ Unknown (2008)

More recent space operas (the kind of thing John Clute called 'cosmogony opera') have been deeply imprinted by speculations revolving around cosmological theories and cutting-edge physics. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are further vocabularies, whose points of reference are more unstable, slipping ambiguously between metaphysics and self-observation, cosmogony and existential philosophy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Attempts to create a naturalistic [cosmogony] are subject to two separate limitations. One is based in the philosophy of science and the epistemological constraints of science itself, especially with regards to whether scientific inquiry can ask questions of "why" the universe exists. Another more pragmatic problem is that there is no physical model that can explain the earliest moments of the universe's existence because of a lack of a consistent theory of [quantum gravity]. Also of interest are supernatural creation accounts, as in ancient Greek myth or in the Creationism of the [Abrahamic religions]. ❋ ♫ Highway To Hell ♫ (2010)