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Whole cosmogonies will be created out of some forgotten personal resentment, complete epics written in private languages, the daubs of schoolchildren ranked above the greatest masterpieces.

From Time Magazine Archive

There had been from of old cosmogonies, theories as to how the world had taken shape out of primeval chaos.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

Hence some of the ancient Jewish teachers came under the influence of Babylonian and Egyptian cosmogonies in their later Hellenistic forms, and resorted to the theory of intermediary forces.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

Schirren16 regarded the New Zealand cosmogonies as myths of sunrise, and the deluge-stories as myths of sunset.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Babylonian and Israelitish.—Of the Babylonian and Israelitish cosmogonies we have several more or less complete records.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various