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n. - The study of the origins and genealogy of the gods.

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  • 141; their theogony was a cosmogony, 142; the theologians of Greece, 274, 275.
  • Chinese, exhibits itself among the Egyptians in a more developed form as theogony.
  • Courting Tory disapproval, she has connected her afterlife with the theogony of the skeptic poets.
  • But since, next to Homer, Hesiod wrote his Works and Days, who will believe his drivelling theogony?
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