androgony

English

Etymology

andro- +‎ -gony

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ænˈdɹɒɡəni/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡəni

Noun

androgony (usually uncountable, plural androgonies)

1. The or a (narrative of the) genesis of man.
   • 1996 December 5, Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis, Michael Dummett, A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot, Bristol Classical Press:

     […] he claims, we obtain a theogony, an androgony and a cosmogony, recounting the evolution of the three different Worlds. The 'theogony' is a disquisition on the Trinity, which Papus takes to be not a peculiarly Christian doctrine, but one shared by many religious [groups].

   • 2004 October 7, David Stern, The Anthology in Jewish Literature, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     A serious study of Rabbinic androgony and cosmogony is an urgent desideratum; for the present, see E. E. Urbach's chapter on creation in HaZaL; Gary A. Anderson, The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination (Louisville, 2001); and […]

2. Misspelling of androgyny.