Cosmogony

Author : Lucy Ives
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593766047

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Cosmogony by Lucy Ives Pdf

An energetic, witty collection of stories where the supernatural meets the anomalies of everyday life--deception, infidelity, lost cats, cute memes, amateur pornography, and more. There are analogies between being female and being left-handed, I think, or being an animal. A woman answers a Craigslist ad (to write erotic diaries for money). A woman walks onto a tennis court (from her home at the bottom of the ocean). A woman goes to the supermarket and meets a friend's husband (who happens to be an immortal demon). A woman goes for a run (and accidentally time travels). Cosmogony takes accounts of so-called normal life and mines them for inconsistencies, deceptions, and delights. Incorporating a virtuosic range of styles and genres (Wikipedia entry, phone call, physics equation, encounters with the supernatural), these stories reveal how the narratives we tell ourselves and believe are inevitably constructed, offering a glimpse of the structures that underlie and apparently determine human existence.

Author : Andrews
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004649460

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Poetry and Cosmogony by Andrews Pdf

Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781849667937

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Ancient Greek Cosmogony by Andrew Gregory Pdf

Ancient Greek Cosmogony is the first detailed, comprehensive account of ancient Greek theories of the origins of the world. It covers the period from 800 BC to 600 AD, beginning with myths concerning the creation of the world; the cosmogonies of all the major Greek and Roman thinkers; and the debate between Greek philosophical cosmogony and early Christian views. It argues that Greeks formulated many of the perennial problems of philosophical cosmogony and produced philosophically and scientifically interesting answers. The atomists argued that our world was one among many worlds, and came about by chance. Plato argued that it is unique, and the product of design. Empedocles and the Stoics, in quite different ways, argued that there was an unending cycle whereby the world is generated, destroyed and generated again. Aristotle on the other hand argued that there was no such thing as cosmogony, and the world has always existed. Reactions to, and developments of, these ideas are traced through Hellenistic philosophy and the debates in early Christianity on whether God created the world from nothing or from some pre-existing chaos. The book examines issues of the origins of life and the elements for the ancient Greeks, and how the cosmos will come to an end. It argues that there were several interesting debates between Greek philosophers on the fundamental principles of cosmogony, and that these debates were influential on the development of Greek philosophy and science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Cosmogony
ISBN : UCSC:32106020761059

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Problems of Cosmogony by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert George Suckling Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0017118767

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Mosaic Cosmogony by Robert George Suckling Browne Pdf

Author : Dan Martin
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bon (Tibetan religion)
ISBN : 3447034106

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Mandala Cosmogony by Dan Martin Pdf

Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hindu versus Chaldeo-Jewish Cosmogony by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Pdf

Explanation of two diagrams from Isis Unveiled, herewith redrawn by Philaletheians, representing the chaotic and the formative periods before and after our universe began to be evolved. A side-by-side comparison of the Hindu and Chaldean Doctrines indicates that the esoteric Brahmanical, Buddhistic, and Chaldean standpoints agree in every respect with the evolutionary theory of modern science.

Author : John C. Reeves
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878201310

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Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony by John C. Reeves Pdf

A work entitled the "Book of Giants" figures in every list of the Manichaean "canon" preserved from antiquity. Both the nature of this work and the intellectual baggage of the third-century Persian prophet to whom it is ascribed remained unknown to scholars until 1943, when fragments of several Middle Iranian versions of the Book of Giants were published by W. B. Henning. Twenty-eight years later, at Qumran, J. T. Milik discovered several copies of a fragmentary Aramaic work which is unquestionably the precursor of the later Manichaean recension. One other important work, Mani's "autobiography," the so-called Cologne Mani Codex, was brought to scholarly attention in 1970 with evidence that Mani spent his youth among the Elchasaites, a Judeo-Christian sect that observed the Sabbath, strict dietary laws, and rigorous purification practices. Although leading Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have consistently stressed the Iranian component in Mani's thought, Reeves argues, in the light of evidence drawn from the above-mentioned discoveries and from a rich panorama of other textual sources, that the fundamental structure of Manichaean cosmogony is ultimately indebted to Jewish exegetical expansions of Genesis 6:1-4. Reeves begins with an examination of the ancient testimonies about the contents of Mani's Book of Giants. Then, using documents from Second Temple Judaism, classical Gnostic literature, Christian and Muslim heresiological reports, Syriac texts, and Manichaean writings, he provides a detailed analysis of both the Qumran and Manichaean rescensions of the work, demonstrating additional interdependencies and suggesting new narrative arrangements. He addresses a series of quotations from an unnamed Manichaean source found in a paschal homily of the sixth-century Monophysite patriarch Severus of Antioch and a narrative from Thoeodore bar Konai. In sum, Reeves demonstrates that the motifs of Jewish Enochic literature, in particular those of the story of the Watchers and Giants, form the skeletal structure of Mani's cosmological teachings, and that Chapters 1 to 11 of Genesis fertilized Near Eastern thought, even to the borders of India and China.

Author : Walter Clyde Curry
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813183367

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Milton's Ontology, Cosmogony, and Physics by Walter Clyde Curry Pdf

Walter Clyde Curry, a well-known student of Milton, analyzes the origins and unique construction of the grand stage upon which Milton presents the drama of human destiny in Paradise Lost. Through close examination of four entities—Heaven of Heavens, Hell,

Author : Stephen C. Headley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191583810

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From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis by Stephen C. Headley Pdf

In 1925 the influential Dutch anthropologist W. H. Rassers posed the question of the relationship of myth to ritual, taking as his case study the Javanese myth of the birth of the man-eating demon, Kala. The light shed by this myth, and its re-enactment, on the social morphology of Java was immediately the subject of debate among students of Javanese culture. Stephen C. Headley translates and studies ritual and myth in their variant forms. He expands illuminatingly upon Rasser's general proposition, that the movement from cosmogony to exorcism founds fundamental social forms within which values circulate in Javanese society. Richly detailed descriptions confirm the permanence of these networks of circulating values in modern-day Java, and their persistence in the face of contemporary individualism.

Author : Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand Bjornstjerna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF005794105

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The Theogony of the Hindoos with Their System of Philosophy and Cosmogony by Count M. Björnstjerna by Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand Bjornstjerna Pdf

Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Cosmogony of the Kalevala is a faithful echo of the Secret Doctrine by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Pdf

The Finns are a wonderfully simple nation, living in perfect touch and harmony with Nature. The old Finns clothed their perceptions of the world in a garland of sublime poetry. The Kalevala is more than 3,000 years old: it dates from the time when the Finnish tribes lived far south of their present home, probably on the Black Sea or the Caspian. The Finns are related to the peoples now settled on the tablelands of Tibet and Central Asia and stand to the Slavonian nations in the same mystical relation as the magicians and sorcerers of Thessaly stood to the rest of the Hellenes. In Russian folklore, Finn is almost a synonym of magician. Their cosmogonic myths and allegories are faithful echoes of the Dhyani-Chohans of the Secret Doctrine, a sublime radiation of Celestial Beings and fountainhead of humanity — formless on the plane of pure subjectivity — and their less spiritual emanations as they descend in the darkness of objectivity. Their beautiful duck corresponds exactly to Kalahamsa, the Swan out of Time and Space, convertible into the Swan in Time and Space of the Secret Doctrine.

Author : C. Hooykaas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401505161

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Cosmogony and Creation in Balinese Tradition by C. Hooykaas Pdf

Life is stranger than fiction. Considerably so. Judge from this: The Javanese develop a feeling towards their afterbirth, wbich is not thrown away at birth in the heathenish Western way, but which gets a decent burial and has the name: ari-ari, younger brother (- sister) . I know of a Javanese schoolgirl who wTote in an essay: "How couldn't I have tender feelings towards the spot where my ari-ari lies buried?" The Balinese are in the happy position of having no less than four elder brothers (sisters). The 'concomitants of physical birth', being the amniotic fluid, the blood, the vernix caseosa and the afterbirth together are the baby's kanda mpat, bis four elder brothers, or her elder ~isters in the case of a girl. Though the first three, due to their liquid state, mostly disappear and receive little care, the ari-ari is carefully buried under a round riverstone of about one foot in diameter, for a boy at the one side of the steps leading to the sleeping house, for a girl at the other side. The innumerable writipgs, partially or completely dealing with the kanda mpat, do not weary from inculcating their readers that the four are helpful as long as one gives them the (material) food and reverential thoughts they are entitled to, in which case they from their side behave as true eIder brothers. U. however, one neglects and ignores them, they punish their younger brother.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Cosmogony
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Problems of Cosmogony and Stellar Dynamics by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Jeans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521744706

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Astronomy and Cosmogony by James Jeans Pdf

This second edition, originally published in 1929, is an extensive survey at the forefront of cosmology and astronomy with particular reference to the physical state of matter, the structure, composition and life-cycle of stars, and the superstructures of nebulae and galaxies. Intended as a rigourously argued scientific treatise, every effort was made by Jeans to render the results of far-reaching advancements in cosmology intelligible to a broad range of readers.