cosmogony
noun
a theory or story of the origin and development of the universe, the solar system, or the earth-moon system.
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Beside the vast and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat-Geeta, even our Shakespeare seems sometimes youthfully green and practical merely.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau