The metaphor is an ancient one in cosmogonic terms, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul] Reference

The cosmogonic myth of Bone is laid out on three occasions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

Above all it gave a renewed impetus to cosmogonic speculation in philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference

We are in the deepest sense, the victims and the instruments of cosmogonic love.    From Wordnik.com.  [LOVE AND SYNCHRONICITY / THE FORCE AND THE VEHICLE] Reference

Timaeus space-in-the-making, that is, space in its cosmogonic nascency and formation, is called chora.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPACE] Reference

The cosmogonic theories that have succeeded each other through the years have not missed using and abusing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odysseus Elytis - Nobel Lecture] Reference

"Deduction, based upon an unproved, but logical, cosmogonic theory-but you probably know more about that stuff than I do.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray Lensman]

In addition to refutations of 12 of the cosmogonic views (more of which he refutes in other works), Saadya provides us in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saadya [Saadiah]] Reference

Peirce generalized these themes into a “cosmogonic” evolutionism reminiscent of Schelling, to whom he acknowledged his indebtedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference

Here the story is combined with a cosmogonic myth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

Whitney has translated the cosmogonic hymn, PAOS.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

Time, and Darkness became personified cosmogonic elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

In all these myths there is a theogonic and cosmogonic element.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference

The cosmogonic narrative which forms the first part of what Geo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference

Great masses of water have given rise to myths, mostly cosmogonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

I proceed to indicate, in a few words, the cosmogonic system which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference

In Polynesia there is a better-defined cosmogonic anthropomorphism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

No religious or cosmogonic myth presents this character of universality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

Many other cosmogonic details, common to various peoples, might be added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

This stream, flowing into the Ginnunga Gap formed the cosmogonic being Ymir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

The great cosmogonic and eschatological myths are conceived in grandiose style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

Not unfrequently the cosmogonic functions of the egg are attributed to a lotus-bud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

But again these childish fancies were but the clothing of general cosmogonic ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

These cosmogonic gods transform the invisible divine will of Thot into a visible universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs its daily duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

In India the cosmogonic myths are to be interpreted in the same way as those mentioned above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

The Persian cosmogonic myths are merely statements of great facts without biographical features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

Connected with the preceding theory is the explanation which makes the Deluge story a cosmogonic fable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

With each successive failure of alternative cosmogonic theories, the Standard Model has been corroborated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons to Believe -] Reference

The cosmogonic days and their succession, as exhibited in the Hexaemeron, appear to lose all meaning in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

His conception of them is not cosmogonic or analytic, but personal; they are entities with which he has to deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

All Semitic myths of which we have records are cosmogonic or sociologic or, in some late forms, theological constructions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

He is not worshiped -- he is regarded rather as the explanation of phenomena, a genuine product of early cosmogonic science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

The same thing is true of certain cosmogonic myths of the Greeks, such as the war of the Titans against Zeus and similar episodes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

The Brahmins of India expressed the same cosmogonic idea by a statue, representative of the Universe, uniting in itself both sexes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

Creation, or 'cosmogonic,' myth is usually the most important myth of a culture, offering a definitional paradigm for existence itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis] Reference

Chinese that its authors did not hesitate to draw largely upon the cosmogonic myths of the Middle Kingdom, and to put into the mouths of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Professor J.P. Arendzen has treated of the various cosmogonic ideas of the principal ancient and modern nations in the article Cosmogony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference