anthropogonyn.
/ˌanθrəˈpɒɡəni/, /ˌanθrəˈpɒɡn̩i/, U.S. /ˌænθrəˈpɑɡəni/ Chiefly Theology and Mythology.
1. An account or theory of the origin of humanity.
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the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] > anthropogeny
anthropogony1810
anthropogeny1905
1810 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 11 Antiquities 26 The cosmogony and anthropogony of Sanchoniatho bear the strongest marks of high antiquity.
1874 J. W. Watson & M. J. Evans tr. J. J. van Oosterzee Christian Dogmatics I. 361 A comparison with other Eastern Anthropogonies [Du. Anthropogoniën] gives a result most favourable to the Mosaic.
1925 M. P. Nilsson Hist. Greek Relig. vi. 222 An anthropogony which laid the principal emphasis on the explanation of the mixture of good and evil in human nature.
1967 E. Buchanan tr. P. Ricoeur Symbolism of Evil (1969) iv. 296 A partisan of the antiquity of the Orphic anthropogony.
2004 W. Hansen Classical Mythol. (2005) ii. 73 The deluge is much like a return to chaos, requiring a new cosmogony and anthropogony.
2. The origin of humanity; the study or investigation of this.
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the world > people > [noun] > origin of man
anthropogony1824
1824 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1992) III. 355 The use of the Mosaic Records as furnishing Bases for Anthropogony.
1849 R. Montgomery & J. Hennen tr. K. I. Nitzsch Syst. Christian Doctr. i. 199 On the one hand, anthropogony [Ger. Anthropogonie] concludes the six days work, and on the other, is especially represented as the work of a Divine decree.
1888 H. P. Blavatsky Secret Doctr. (ed. 2) II. i. 235 In anthropogony this ‘girdle’ [sc. the rings of Saturn] is the human body.
1999 W. Burkert in R. R. Buxton From Myth to Reason? iv. 101 There is no single myth of anthropogony, but a large variety illustrating this or that aspect, problem, or interest in the human situation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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