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Theogonic

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the·og·o·ny  (th-g-n)
n. pl. the·og·o·nies
An account of the origin and genealogy of the gods.
theo·gonic (--gnk) adj.
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Recalling Boehme's notion of the "primal dark abyss" as the theogonic well-spring of all things (Ungrund), Berdyaev wrote: "Beyond any given being lies a still deeper being, and transcendence is always an attaining of a deeper being.
Revisiting Nikolai Berdyaev by Panichas, George A. / Modern Age
The debate may be traced back to that between the Sophists of the Greek enlightenment, who saw the tales about the gods as theogonic allegories conveying what Aristotle called "greater" truth--because nonhistorical--and the Epicureans, who viewed them as historically-based fabrications bolstering power structures.
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If I were a traveler from a distant galaxy and I found myself confronted with a species capable of proposing this model, I would be filled with admiration for such theogonic energy, and I would judge this wretched and vile species, which has committed so many horrors, redeemed were it only for the fact that it has managed to wish and to believe that all this is the truth.
When the other appears on the scene by Eco, Umberto / Cross Currents
 
 
 
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