The-ōg'o-ny, n.

n. [Fr. théogonie, It. & Sp. teogonia, Lat. theogonia, Gr. θεογονία, from θεός, a god, and γονή, γόνος, γένος, race, birth, from γείνειν, γίγνεσθαι, Lat. genere, gignere, to bring forth, to be born.] (Myth.) The generation of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which taught the genealogy of their deities; as, Hesiod composed a poem concerning that theogony, or the creation of the world and the descent of the gods.