Cosmogony

Author : Lucy Ives
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593766041
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmogony written by Lucy Ives and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sir James Hopwood Jeans
Publisher : Canbridge, [Eng.] : The University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astronomy and Cosmogony written by Sir James Hopwood Jeans and published by Canbridge, [Eng.] : The University Press. This book was released on 1928 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrews
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004649468
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry and Cosmogony written by Andrews and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dan Martin
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447034104
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandala Cosmogony written by Dan Martin and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849667926
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Cosmogony written by Andrew Gregory and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems of Cosmogony written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Hooykaas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401505160
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmogony and Creation in Balinese Tradition written by C. Hooykaas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert George Suckling Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosaic Cosmogony written by Robert George Suckling Browne and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hindu versus Chaldeo-Jewish Cosmogony written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0878201319
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony written by John C. Reeves and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.