balagan- a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian); "it was utter and complete balagan!" 2.chaos- the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos
In Greek mythology Cronus was the King of the Titans and the god of time, in particular time when viewed as a destructive, all-devouring force. He ruled the cosmos during the Golden Age after castrating and deposing his father Uranus. In fear of a prophe
Uranus fled back into the cosmos, and Cronus assumed the throne on Mount Othrys. He and his sister/wife Rhea presided over what was known as the Golden Age, one of the five fabled ages of man. Sources record that the Golden Age was one of harmony between all living beings, where every...
CHAOS & THE BIRTH OF THE COSMOS Hesiod, Theogony 116 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : "Verily at the first Khaos (Chaos, the Chasm) [Air] came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Gaea, Earth), the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who ...
From the struggle between opposites arises the unity which is logos, that is, the “word,” the eternal law of the cosmos. During the fifth century B.C. doctrines arose in cosmology and nature philosophy that attempted to examine the actual plurality of things and the principle of motion. ...
‘. As his name suggested, Eros was in charge of procreation in the cosmos. He was believed to be the fairest of all the primordial deities and embodied the wisdom of the gods and men. In Orpheus’ theogony, Phanes (another name for Eros), was the first primordial deity who originated ...
abroad, where she produced and hosted the weekly show. As Anastasia’s concept, she has taken Your Greek News from a web show to a full-fledged Television program, and it can now be seen airing 30-minute episodes on MEGA Cosmos Canada, where it represents the Canadian Content for the ...
bishopepiskopos‘watcher, overseer’, a title for government officials, later taken over in a Church sense, fromepi– ‘over’ +skopos‘watcher’ catholickatholikos, fromkata‘about’ + genitive case ofholos‘whole’ cosmoskosmos‘orderly arrangement’ ...
and his efforts to calculate the circumference of the Earth and the distance from the Earth to the Sun paved the way for our modern understanding of the cosmos. Among his other many accomplishments were the creation of the first map of the world and the invention of an algorithm known as ...
Titans(TYE-tunz). Sons of the goddess Earth, who ruled the cosmos before the Olympians. Cronus, king of the Titans, was deposed by his son Zeus. The Giants, also sons of Earth, stormed Mount Olympus in revenge. But they were repulsed by the Olympian gods with the help of the hero ...