cosmogonic
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Emotional ambiguity has been one of her great strengths in the past — on “Golden Hour,” her space-cookie deadpan made uncomplicated lyrics about feeling “happy and sad at the same time” resonate like cosmogonic poetry.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
With its origins in pre-Buddhist burial mounds or sacred tumuli, it retains a cosmogonic power.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
It’s unfair to expect a cheerful animated comedy to approximate Malick’s cosmogonic exhilarations, but for a director of genius there are ways.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2015
Great masses of water have given rise to myths, mostly cosmogonic.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
The ancients tell us plainly enough that they are derived from the cosmogonic elements.
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