Meanings
- not comparablePertaining to zoogeny or producing life.
But the Pythagoreans thought that the pole should be called the Seal of Rhea; because the zoogonic, or vivific goddess, pours through these into the universe, an inexplicable and efficacious power.
2006, Proclus' Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, page 1602 more examples
Dissenting views deny either a cosmogonic or a zoogonic role for strife, or both, and some deny a phase where the role of strife increases, such that there is a leap from the complete dominance of love to the complete dominance of strife.
2008, Andrew Gregory, Ancient Greek CosmogonyIf the speaker was a zoogonic God, we would say that s/he filled the hearers with divine life through her words; but since the demiurge is the orator, he imparts to the Gods the demiurgic characteristic, distributes his singular demiurgy among the manifold of encosmic Gods, and displays them as demiurges...".
2014, Edward Butler, Essays on the Metaphysics of Polytheism in Proclus, page 193
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