THEOGONY, formed from theos God, and genesis, a
"feed, offspring," that branch of the heathen theology Theogn's which taught the peacalogy of their gods.
Hesiod gives us the ancient theogony, in a poem under that title. Among the most ancient writers, Dr Burnet observes, that theogony and cosmogony signified the same thing. In effect, the generation of the gods of the ancient Persians, fire, water, and earth, is apparently no other than that of the primary elements.