Theogony (the term)

An account of the birth and genealogy of the gods (Greek theos, god; gonos, birth). The type is Hesiod's poem of that name, which asks the Muses "how at the first gods and earth came to be"; the Voluspo's history of the world and the Heliopolitan creation story of the Egyptian texts are theogonies in the same sense, and Herodotus turns the Egyptian one into a chronology of divine dynasties.