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.

Derived terms

• theogonic

Related terms

• cosmogony
• heroogony

Translations

origination of gods or a narrative describing the origin of gods

• Armenian: թեոգոնիա (hy) (tʻeogonia)
• Bulgarian: теого́ния f (teogónija)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: theogonie (nl) f
• Esperanto: teogonio
• 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: teogonie (ro) f
• Russian: теого́ния (ru) f (teogónija)
• Spanish: teogonía (es) f
• Swedish: teogoni (sv) c

References

• “theogony”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.