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

Near Wessobrunn, in Upper Bavaria, where the semi-heathen fragment of a cosmogonic lay, known as “Wessobrunn Prayer,” was discovered, there has also been found, of late, a rudely-sculptured three-headed image.

From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Anderson, Rasmus Björn

If, therefore, the cosmogonic and other legends are inspired, so must also the common original of these and their corresponding stories be inspired.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward