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The manifestation of one essentially cosmogonical divinity wrought for the most part only material and cosmogonical prodigies.

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

It leads directly to the third law of Kepler, which thus becomes susceptible of being conceived à priori in a cosmogonical point of view. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert

The descent of the Ganges is the sequel of another fiction still more monstrous, but perhaps one of the most singular of the cosmogonical notions of the ancient Indians.

From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Milman, Henry Hart

The ordinary mind would seem to have been either indifferent to or satisfied with the abstruse cosmogonical and cosmological theories of the early sages for at least a thousand years.

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

They have to be noticed in passing, because they were involved in the development of the cosmogonical ideas which took place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D.

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