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cosmogony
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????????? (kosmogonía), from ?????? (kósmos, “world”) + ????? (gónos, “creation”). Surface analysis, cosmo- +? -gony.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?z?m???ni/
Noun
cosmogony (countable and uncountable, plural cosmogonies)
- The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields.
- Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe.
- The creation of the universe.
Synonyms
- cosmogenesis, cosmogeny, cosmology; hexameron (biblical)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- anthropogeny
- cosmography
- eschatology
- theogony
References
- cosmogony at OneLook Dictionary Search
- cosmogony in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 ed.
- cosmogony in Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., at Bartleby.com.
- cosmogony by John Peter Arendzen, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Robert Appleton Company, New York, 1913.
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mythology
English
Etymology
First attested as Middle English [Term?] in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (muthología, “legend”) ????????? (muthologé?, “I tell tales”), from ????????? (muthológos, “legend”), from ????? (mûthos, “story”) + ???? (lég?, “I say”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?thôlôj?, IPA(key): /m????l?d?i/
- (US) IPA(key): /m????l?d?i/
- Rhymes: -?l?d?i
Noun
mythology (countable and uncountable, plural mythologies)
- (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
- (countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
- 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ?ISBN, page x:
- This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.
- 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ?ISBN, page x:
- (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
- 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ?ISBN, page 198:
- This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.
- 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ?ISBN, page 198:
- (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.
Synonyms
- godlore
Derived terms
- mythological
- mythologist
Translations
See also
- Christian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Egyptian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Greek mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Japanese mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Norse mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Roman mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Indian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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