cosmogonical
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This is one of those indefinable mythic personages who are found in the ancient traditions of many nations, and in whom cosmogonical or astronomical notions are generally figured.
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
Bráhmans, with a system rather cosmogonical than chronological, divide the present mundane period into four ages or yugas as they call them: the Krita, the Tretá, the Dwápara, and the Kali.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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 Stewart, Aubrey
In the cosmogonical myths of the Muyscas this was the home or source of Light, and was a name applied to the demiurgic force.
From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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