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In the cosmogonical myths of the Muyscas this was the home or source of Light, and was a name applied to the demiurgic force.

From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

He was not a Philosopher; his speculations belonged to those cosmogonical dreams which precede true philosophy, and begin again when philosophy goes to sleep, as we see in the speculations of the present day.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey

Their cosmogonical connexion has already been referred to in a previous chapter.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

In the following passages we have the combined Finnish version of the widespread cosmogonical myths of the Divine Spirit brooding over the waters of Chaos; and the Mundane Egg.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

Bráhmans, with a system rather cosmogonical than chronological, divide the present mundane period into four ages or yugas as they call them: the Krita, the Tretá, the Dwápara, and the Kali.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)