Also 8–9 erron. -geny. [ad. Gr. θεογονία generation or birth of the gods, f. θεός god + -γονία a begetting. So F. théogonie.] The generation of the gods; esp. an account or theory, or the belief or study, of the genealogy or birth of the deities of heathen mythology.
1612. Selden, Illustr. Drayton’s Poly-olb., xi. 183. I imagine many of their descents were iust as true as the Theogonie in Hesiod.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Theogonie, the beginning or generation of the gods.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, II. ii. 87. There were many Cosmogonies and Theogonies current amongst the Pagans.
1853. Max Müller, Chips (1880), I. iii. 73. In the Veda,… a theogony of which that of Hesiod is but the last chapter.
1859. I. Taylor, Logic in Theol., 253. Theogenies, and theories of the universe.
