Hesiod and the Pre-Socratics use the Greek term in the context of cosmogony.

In the mythical Greek cosmogony of Hesiod ( 8th-7th century BC ) the origin ( arche ) of the world is Chaos, an unlimited ( formless ) void considered as a divine primordial condition, from which everything else appeared.

The linguistic theories of the author of the Sefer Yetzirah are an integral component of his philosophy, its other parts being astrological and Gnostic cosmogony.

In his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea ( 1995 ) Daniel Dennett explains that Judeo-Christian and Islamic cosmogony are established on the assumption that the genesis of all creation is dependent on the action of a " cogitative being ".

The epic fragments are not part of a cosmogony, Forsyth notes, as the cities of men already exist.

To say that it is an unorthodox text is an understatement ; while traditional Jewish laws of purity are part of the cosmogony, for instance, there are " praxeis which demand we eat cakes made from blood and flour " ( Morgan 9 ).

In the cosmogony of the Bribri, which is shared by the Cabecares and other American ancestral groups, the stone spheres are “ Tara ’ s cannon balls ”.

Gamow produced an important cosmogony paper with his student Ralph Alpher, which was published as " The Origin of Chemical Elements " ( Physical Review, April 1, 1948 ).

This article will discuss only the typical elements present in Asian mythology, such as cosmogony, important deities, and the best known Japanese stories.

Emanationism is an idea in the cosmology or cosmogony of certain religious or philosophical systems.

The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.

In Numenius's Neo-Pythagorean and Middle Platonist cosmogony, the Demiurge is second God as the nous or thought of intelligibles and sensibles.

In a passage of Zhang Heng's cosmogony not translated by Needham, Zhang himself says: " Heaven takes its body from the Yang, so it is round and in motion.

In the body of the poem, Odin describes at great length the cosmogony of the worlds, the dwelling places of its inhabitants, and talks about himself and his many guises.

The Theogony concerns the origins of the world ( cosmogony ) and of the gods ( theogony ), beginning with Chaos, Gaia, and Eros, and shows a special interest in genealogy.

According to Franz Cumont, the imagery of the tauroctony was a Graeco-Roman representation of an event in Zoroastrian cosmogony described in a 9th century AD Zoroastrian text, the Bundahishn.

In the 13th century medieval Europe the English bishop Robert Grosseteste wrote on a wide range of scientific topics discussing light from four different perspectives: an epistemology of light, a metaphysics or cosmogony of light, an etiology or physics of light, and a theology of light, basing it on the works Aristotle and Platonism.

It is the first Greek mythical cosmogony.

By contrast, in the Orphic cosmogony the unaging Chronos produced Aether and Chaos and made a silvery egg in divine Aether.

In Serer religion, tree of life as a religious concept form the basis of Serer cosmogony.

Augustine's perspective follows from and is built upon the neo-Platonic views of his era, which in turn have their original roots in Plato's cosmogony.

It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah ( the five books of Moses ) and scriptural interpretations as well as material on Mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology.

In astronomy, cosmogony refers to the study of the origin of particular astrophysical objects or systems, and is most commonly used in reference to the origin of the solar system.

A scientific examination of cosmogony using existing physical models would face many challenges.

The Church of Scientology forbade individuals from reading the OT III Xenu cosmogony without first having taken prerequisite courses.

Iamblichus believed theurgy was an imitation of the gods, and in his major work, On the Egyptian Mysteries, he described theurgic observance as " ritualized cosmogony " that endowed embodied souls with the divine responsibility of creating and preserving the cosmos.

A critical part of Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, Ainulindalë plays the role of Middle-earth's cosmogony, or creation myth.

In the Ogdoad cosmogony, Thoth gave birth to Ra, Atum, Nefertum, and Khepri by laying an egg while in the form of an ibis, or later as a goose laying a golden egg.

The Temple of Heaven was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 and was described as " a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world ’ s great civilizations ..." as the " symbolic layout and design of the Temple of Heaven had a profound influence on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries.

In earliest Greek philosophy, the cosmogony of Anaximander is based on these mythical beliefs.

Later in the Orphic cosmogony, first came Thesis ( Disposer ), whose ineflable nature is unexpressed.

In the Orphic cosmogony the unageing Chronos produced Aether and Chaos, and made a silvery egg in the divine Aether.

Several prose and poetic works, now lost, were attributed to Epimenides, including a theogony, an epic poem on the Argonautic expedition, prose works on purifications and sacrifices, a cosmogony, oracles, a work on the laws of Crete, and a treatise on Minos and Rhadymanthus.

From this point of view he edited the Theogony of Hesiod ( 1868 ), with a commentary, chiefly mythological, and Cicero's De natura deorum ( 1850, 4th ed.

") The outer wheel is written in Latin, and is a quote from Hesiod via Bartolomeo Anglico ( De proprietatibus rerum, Book 8, Chapter 2 ): " Tellus vero primum siquidem genuit parem sibi coelum stellis ornatum, ut ipsam totam obtegat, utque esset beatis Diis sedes tuta semper.

Deimos, " Terror " or " Dread ", and Phobos, " Fear ", are his companions in war and also his children, borne by Aphrodite, according to Hesiod.

Some scholars have seen Perses as a literary creation, a foil for the moralizing that Hesiod develops in Works and Days, but there are also arguments against this theory.

Various legends accumulated about Hesiod and they are recorded in several sources:

Dactylic hexameter was the traditional meter of Greek epic poetry, the earliest extant examples of which are the works of Homer and Hesiod.

According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar ( pithos ), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as " Pandora's box " ( see below ), releasing all the evils of mankind — although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod — leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again.

As a result, Hesiod tells us, " the earth and sea are full of evils " ( 101 ).

The poet declares that it is he, where we might have expected some king instead, upon whom the Muses have bestowed the two gifts of a scepter and an authoritative voice ( Hesiod, Theogony 30 – 3 ), which are the visible signs of kingship.

Hesiod was probably influenced by some Near-Eastern traditions, such as the Babylonian Dynasty of Dunnum, which were mixed with local traditions, but they are more likely to be lingering traces from the Mycenaean tradition than the result of oriental contacts in Hesiod's own time.

The first references to hosiery can be found in works of Hesiod, where Romans are said to have used leather or cloth in forms of strips to cover their lower body parts.

Some Greek astronomers considered them to be a distinct constellation, and they are mentioned by Hesiod, and in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

The oldest sources on Bacchylides and his work are scholia on Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aristophanes, Apollonius Rhodius and Callimachus.

There are three available and not entirely consistent lists of suitors, compiled by Pseudo-Apollodorus ( 31 suitors ), Hesiod ( 11 suitors ), and Hyginus ( 36 suitors ), for a total of 45 distinct names.

The ancient Greek poet Hesiod has in his account of the birth of the gods and creation of the world ( i. e., in his Theogony ) that Chaos begot the primordial deities: Eros, Gaia ( Earth ) and Tartarus, who begot Erebus ( Darkness ) and Nyx ( Night ), and Plato echoes this genealogy in the Timaeus 40e, 41e where the familiar Titan and Olympian gods are sired by Heaven and Earth.

Writers similarly disagree also concerning the number of the Muses ; for some say that there are three, and others that there are nine, but the number nine has prevailed since it rests upon the authority of the most distinguished men, such as Homer and Hesiod and others like them.

Significant variations on the legend of Oedipus are mentioned in fragments by several ancient Greek poets including Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus and Euripides.

The Meliae belong to a class of sisterhoods whose nature is to appear collectively and who are invoked in the plural, though genealogical myths, especially in Hesiod, give them individual names, such as Melia, " but these are quite clearly secondary and carry no great weight " ( Burkert 1985 III. 3. 2 ).

In the Theogony of Hesiod, the three Moirai are personified, and are acting over the gods.

The Horae are mentioned in two aspects in Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns.

These included, so we are told, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Porphyry, and " others ".

As a result, Hesiod tells us, " the earth and sea are full of evils " ( 101 ).

Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ' telling ; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (" The Library ") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

The materials are said to be taken almost wholly from Aristotle's Meteorologica, from the work of Theophrastus, On Weather Signs, and from Hesiod.