zoogonic

English

Adjective

zoogonic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to zoogeny or producing life.
   • 2006, Proclus' Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, page 160:

     But the Pythagoreans thought that the pole should be called the Seal of Rhea; because the zoogonic, or vivific goddess, pours through these into the universe, an inexplicable and efficacious power.

   • 2008, Andrew Gregory, Ancient Greek Cosmogony:

     Dissenting views deny either a cosmogonic or a zoogonic role for strife, or both, and some deny a phase where the role of strife increases, such that there is a leap from the complete dominance of love to the complete dominance of strife.

   • 2014, Edward Butler, Essays on the Metaphysics of Polytheism in Proclus, page 193:

     If the speaker was a zoogonic God, we would say that s/he filled the hearers with divine life through her words; but since the demiurge is the orator, he imparts to the Gods the demiurgic characteristic, distributes his singular demiurgy among the manifold of encosmic Gods, and displays them as demiurges...".