Cosmogony [Gr. Kosmogonia from Kosmos the world and root of gignesthai to be born] is the coming into existence, the creation and origination of the universe. In space science and astronomy, the term cosmogony is also used to refer to theories of creation of the Solar System, for example, the Solar Nebula. It is also the study of these aspects. So a cosmogony depicts an origin belief about how the Universe came to be; hence, the creation story in the book of Genesis is one such cosmogon ...

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cosmogony

(Greek cosmo "the universe as an orderly whole") The study of how the universe was created according to Genesis; the story of steps of development. Not to be confused with cosmology

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Quiche Cosmogony. Called Popol Vuh; discovered by the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg.

(See "Popol Vuh".)

(See also: Quiche Cosmogony, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

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. The three letters are not only the three "mothers" from which the other letters of the alphabet are formed, but they are also symbolical figures for the three primordial elements, the substances which underlie all existence. The mute מ is the symbol of the water in which the mute fish live; the hissing ש corresponds to the hissing fire; and the airy א represents th ...

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Sefer Yetzirah, Sefer Yetzirah - Origin, Sefer Yetzirah - Influence, Sefer Yetzirah - The phonetic system, Sefer Yetzirah - Cosmogony, Sefer Yetzirah - The Creation, Sefer Yetzirah - Theories of contrast in nature, Sefer Yetzirah - Gnostic elements, Sefer Yetzirah - Date, Sefer Yetzirah - Thelmetic Interpretations, Sefer Yetzirah - Foot notes

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Karma Yoga Lesson VI

Detachment; Accept the universe of thought without being affected by it; Avoid cosmogony; You Call change your environment; True vairagya or detachment; Change your point of view; The tangle of thought; The use of the "Neti," "Neti" mantra.

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Shruti Vedas Rig Veda Sama Veda Yajur Veda Atharva Veda Brahmanas Aranyakas Upanishads Smriti Itihāsas Mahābhārata Bhagavad Gītā Ramayana Puranas (List) Tantras Sutras (List) Stotras Ashtavakra Gita Gita ...

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• Vedas - Organization
• Vedas - Position and compilation
• Vedas - Study
• Vedas - Religious views: Monism Monotheism Henotheism and Polytheism
• Vedas - Cosmogony

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Cosmology is the branch of philosophy and metaphysics that deals with the world as the totality of all phenomena in space and time. Presocratic philosophers from the Ionian School are sometimes called cosmologists. There are nine basic cosmological positions that form the foundation of virtually all philosophies and religions. These are: Naturism: The universe is all that exists. Any God or gods are a product (derived) of the universe. (Western atheism) Negationism: God does not exist, but is a mere illusion. The universe does not exist; it too is a ...

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Theism is the belief in one or more gods or goddesses. More specifically, it may also mean the belief in God, a god, or gods, who is/are actively involved in maintaining the Universe. This secondary meaning is shown in context to other beliefs concerning the divine below. The term is attested in English from 1678, and was probably coined to contrast with atheism attested from ca. 1587 (see t ...

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The Creator God is the divine being that created the omniverse, according to various traditions and faiths. Creator God - Abrahamic religions. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam teach that Creation is the origin of the totality of the omniverse by the action of God. Even more particularly, every type of existence is also owing to the act of creation by God. Among monotheists it has historically been most commonly believed that living things are the God's creations, and are not the result of a pr ...

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• Creator God - Abrahamic religions
• Creator God - Christianity
• Creator God - Hinduism
• Creator God - Classical Greece

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Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew, "Book of Creation[1]", ספר יצירה) is the title of two books on esoteric Jewish mysticism. The older and more well-known work of this title is also called the "Hilkot Yetzirah" (Hebrew, "Rules of Creation"), and is a thaumaturgical work that was popular in the Talmudic period. The following text came from the 1906 Public Domain Jewish Encyclopedia. This entry thus ne ...

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• Sefer Yetzirah - Origin
• Sefer Yetzirah - Influence
• Sefer Yetzirah - The phonetic system
• Sefer Yetzirah - Cosmogony
• Sefer Yetzirah - The Creation
• Sefer Yetzirah - Theories of contrast in nature
• Sefer Yetzirah - Gnostic elements
• Sefer Yetzirah - Date
• Sefer Yetzirah - Thelmetic Interpretations
• Sefer Yetzirah - Foot notes

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History of creationism Creation in Genesis Types of creationism: Young Earth creationism - Creation science Old Earth creationism Omphalos creationism Theistic evolution Neo-Creationism Islamic creationism Intelligent design - Intelligent design movement Modern geocentrism Controversy: Creation vs. evolution ... in public education ...

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• Dating Creation - Creation dates
• Dating Creation - Date of Creation according to the Mayan calendar
• Dating Creation - Date of Creation according to the Old Testament
• Dating Creation - Date of Creation according to Hindu scripture
• Dating Creation - Age of the Universe according to the Big Bang theory
• Dating Creation - Further reading

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Differentiation can mean the following: In biology: cellular differentiation; evolutionary differentiation; In mathematics: see: derivative In cosmogony: planetary differentiation Differentiation (geology); Differentiation (logic); Differentiation (psychotherapy); Differentiation (marketing). Differentiation (ethnography).<

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The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of God. It is also known as the first cause argument for the existence of God, or the prime mover argument. There are three versions of this argument: the argument from causation in esse, the argument from causation in fieri, and the argument from contingency. Cosmological argument - Origins of the argument. Thomas Aquinas, the most famous philosopher of the Middle Ages, adapted an argument he found in his reading of Aris ...

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• Cosmological argument - Origins of the argument
• Cosmological argument - The argument
• Cosmological argument - A more detailed version of the argument
• Cosmological argument - Critique and Objections
• Cosmological argument - Scientific positions

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In Egyptian mythology, Amunet (also spelled Amonet, Amaunet, Amentet, Amentit, Imentet, Imentit, and Ament) was originally the female form of the originally androgynous god Amun. Amun/Amunet was originally the deification of the primordial concept of air, in the Ogdoad cosmogony, Amun's name meaning (one who) is hidden, and Amunet's simp ...

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History of creationism Creation in Genesis Types of creationism: Young Earth creationism - Creation science Old Earth creationism Omphalos creationism Theistic evolution Neo-Creationism Islamic creationism Intelligent design - Intelligent design movement Modern geocentrism Controversy: Creation vs. evolution ... in public education ...

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• Old Earth creationism - Types of Old Earth Creationism
• Old Earth creationism - Gap Creationism
• Old Earth creationism - Day-Age Creationism
• Old Earth creationism - The Framework Hypothesis
• Old Earth creationism - Cosmic Time
• Old Earth creationism - Progressive Creationism
• Old Earth creationism - Broader Reasoning

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In Egyptian mythology, Ptah (also spelt Peteh) was the deification of the primordial mound in the Ennead cosmogony, which was more literally referred to as Ta-tenen (also spelt Tathenen), meaning risen land, or as Tanen, meaning submerged land. The importance Ptah was given in history can readily be understood since the name Egypt derives from a Greek spelling of the phrase Ḥ.wt-k3-Ptḥ, (sometimes transcribed Hat-ka-Ptah), meaning temple of the Ka of ...

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In Norse mythology, Vafþrúðnismál (Vafþrúðnir's sayings) is the third poem in the Poetic Edda. It is a conversation in verse form conducted initially between the Æsir Odin and Frigg, and subsequently between Odin and the giant Vafþrúðnir. The poem goes into much detail about the Norse cosmogony and was evidently used extensively as a source document by Snorri Sturluson in the construction of the Prose Edda. The extant copy of the manuscript is not compl ...

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In cosmogony, the solar nebula is the gaseous cloud (or accretion disc) from which our solar system is believed to have formed. This nebular hypothesis was first proposed in 1755 by Immanuel Kant, who argued that nebulae slowly rotate, gradually condensing and flattening due to gravity, eventually forming stars and planets. A similar model was proposed in 1796 by Pierre-Simon Laplace. Solar nebula - Formation and evolution. The solar nebula is believed to have had an initial diameter of 100 A ...

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• Solar nebula - Formation and evolution
• Solar nebula - The Kant-Laplace and Near-Collision Theories

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Hesiodic Cosmogony The cosmogony and theogony of Hesiod, the Greek poet-philosopher of the 8th century BC, are historical but need interpretation to understand the symbology involved and to filter out the accumulation of minor myths which have been mingled with it.

His two great works are Works and Days and Theogony. Among the features he mentions are: that gods and mortals have one common origin; that there have been four races preceding ours -- called golden, silver, bronze, and iron, the fourth being that of the heroes who fell at Thebes and Troy; that seven is a sacred number in days and in constellations; that the beginning of all things was Chaos (Hesiod having the singular restraint to say nothing about what preceded Chaos); that "night" came before "day."

The giants he mentions parallel the asuras and suras and are reminiscences of Atlanteans. His three cyclopes are said to have been representative figures for the last three subraces of Lemuria, and also for three polar continents (SD 2:769, 776). His Prometheus typifies the Greek moral ideal in representing this rebel demigod as the benefactor of mankind, in contrast with the Christian Satan.

(See also: Hesiodic Cosmogony, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Hesperides The Greek goddesses who, with the hundred-headed dragon Ladon, guarded the golden apples which Gaia (earth) gave as a wedding present to Hera on her marriage to Zeus. These apples grew on a tree in a garden by the banks of the river Oceanus near Mt. Atlas, which geographically for the ancients was the peak of Teneriffe, a remnant of Atlantis. One of the tasks of Hercules was to secure some of these apples. The Hesperides are, according to various authorities, three, four, or seven in number. Hesiod calls them the daughters of Night; they are also called Atlantides, and by some made the daughters of Atlantis and Hesperis.

In this we recognize the mythos of the tree of knowledge with its fruit and its location in the garden of life, localized in those mysterious lands of the West from which the ancestors of the Greeks migrated when the new race was in birth from the surviving elect of the old. It represents the Golden Age, the Eden of Grecian mythology.

(See also: Hesiodic Cosmogony, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)