theogony

theogony

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θεογονία (theogonía).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /θɪˈɒɡənɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɪˈɑːɡənɪ/

Noun

theogony (plural theogonies)

1. (chiefly in ancient religion) The origination of gods or a narrative describing the origin of gods.
   • 1939, J. Philip Hyatt, “The Deity Bethel and the Old Testament”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 59, number 1, page 86:

     This Phoenician history includes the cosmogony and theogony of the Phoenicians. In the theogony, Ourianos (Sky) has four children by his wife-sister Gē (Earth): Ēlos (interpreted as Kronos), Baitlos, Dagōn (Sitōn), and Atlas.

Related terms

• cosmogony
• heroogony

Translations

origination of gods or a narrative describing the origin of gods

Armenian: թեոգոնիա (hy) (tʿeogonia) Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: theogonie (nl) f Estonian: teogoonia Finnish: jumalten synty (origination), jumalten syntykertomus (narrative) French: théogonie (fr) f Galician: teogonía (gl) f Georgian: თეოგონია (teogonia) German: Theogonie (de) f Greek: θεογονία (el) f (theogonía) Ancient: θεογονία f (theogonía) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: teogonia (it) f Latin: theogonia f Latvian: teogonija f Lithuanian: teogonija f Occitan: teogonia f Polish: teogonia (pl) f Portuguese: teogonia (pt) f Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: теого́ния (ru) f (teogónija) Spanish: teogonía (es) f Swedish: teogoni (sv) c

References

• theogony at OneLook Dictionary Search