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

He is not worshiped—he is regarded rather as the explanation of phenomena, a genuine 270product of early cosmogonic science.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

The only specially striking feature in this mass of cosmogonic traditions is the sense of the instability of the established order alike of nature and society which pervades them.

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert