Cosmogony
“generations of the gods”
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
birth of Being from Non-Being · conflux of first-stuff Did found the multitudinous universe · generations of the gods
spoken of as
1 expressionformation of the cosmos“cosmogony”1 mention
De Rerum Natura (Latin)
First broke away from out the earthen parts,
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
The naturalistic origin story of the world's layered structure—earth, sea, air, ether, sun and moon—arising from the settling of atomic matter by weight and motion, without divine design.
First broke away from out the earthen parts,
First came together the earthy particles
By condensation there afar from earth,
Rigveda
Mythic narrative of the origin of the gods and the cosmos.
Let us now proclaim with praise the generations of the gods, so that one may behold them in a later age when the hymns are being recited.
He who is our father, our begetter and ordainer, who knows all the abodes and all the worlds, who alone assigns the names of the gods — to him the other beings come with their inquiry.
The wise Father, father of the eye, gave being by his mind to these two bowing ones and kindled them with ghee.