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
The doctrine of emanation is thus to be distinguished from the cosmogonic theory of Judaism and Christianity, which explains human existence as due to a single creative act of a moral agent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
As to creation, there is no need, in a low community, to suppose more than one originator of the world, and cosmogonic theory may stop at that point, though this is not an invariable rule.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
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