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plural androgonies
- uncountableusuallyThe genesis of man, or a narrative of this.
A serious study of Rabbinic androgony and cosmogony is an urgent desideratum; for the present, see E. E. Urbach's chapter on creation in HaZaL; Gary A. Anderson, The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination (Louisville, 2001); and[…]
2004 October 7, David Stern, The Anthology in Jewish Literature, Oxford University Press, →ISBN1 more example
[…] he claims, we obtain a theogony, an androgony and a cosmogony, recounting the evolution of the three different Worlds. The 'theogony' is a disquisition on the Trinity, which Papus takes to be not a peculiarly Christian doctrine, but one shared by many religious [groups].
1996 December 5, Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis, Michael Dummett, A Wicked Pack of Cards: Origins of the Occult Tarot, Bristol Classical Press - misspellinguncountableusuallyMisspelling of androgyny.
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