cosmogonical
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This tells of the World, its beginning, its convulsions and its ending, and thus embraces the three minor cycles of the cosmogonical, the cataclysmal and the eschatological myths.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
Philosophers held it to be the result of undue proportions in the mixture of the two cosmogonical principles which when properly blended produce the harmony of nature.
From Religions of Ancient China by Herbert Allen Giles
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 Aubrey Stewart
This, then, is the interpretation I have to offer of the cosmogonical myth of the Algonkins.
From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Daniel Garrison Brinton
All this was mixed up with most complicated cosmogonical myths.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
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