As a result of these conflicting sacerdotal ambitions, Egypt devel - oped divergent and mutually inconsistent cosmogonical schemes rather than a single unified view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

All this was mixed up with most complicated cosmogonical myths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of St. Francis of Assisi] Reference

Their cosmogonical connexion has already been referred to in a previous chapter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of China] Reference

This, then, is the interpretation I have to offer of the cosmogonical myth of the Algonkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent] Reference

The manifestation of one essentially cosmogonical divinity wrought for the most part only material and cosmogonical prodigies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ramayana. English] Reference

Commentaries, sanctioned by the highest authority, give up the "actual historical truth" of the cosmogonical and diluvial narratives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

Philosophers held it to be the result of undue proportions in the mixture of the two cosmogonical principles which when properly blended produce the harmony of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religions of Ancient China] Reference

They have to be noticed in passing, because they were involved in the development of the cosmogonical ideas which took place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D. Monism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of China] Reference

He had accomplished the creation not by muscular effort to which the rest of the cosmogonical gods primarily owed their birth, but by means of formulas, or even of the voice alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)] Reference

The ordinary mind would seem to have been either indifferent to or satisfied with the abstruse cosmogonical and cosmological theories of the early sages for at least a thousand years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of China] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Lives, Volume II] Reference

Shuh Hiang would illustrate it with an ode, or with a reference to the "Book" (of history), or by an appeal to the Rites of Chou, or to some obscure astrological or cosmogonical development extracted from the mystic diagrams of "The Changes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient China Simplified] Reference

Therefore in these myths, which are found over so many thousand square leagues, we cannot be in error in perceiving a reflex of their cosmogonical traditions already discussed, in which from the winds and the waters, represented here under their emblems of the bird and the dog, all animate life proceeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America] Reference

Combating the power of Evil in the various departments of Nature, and in successive periods of time, the Divinity, though varying in form, is ever in reality the same, whether seen in useful agricultural or social inventions, in traditional victories over rival creeds, or in physical changes faintly discovered through tradition, or suggested by cosmogonical theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

Let us ask the astronomers who originate cosmogonical hypotheses, and invent a primitive nebula, the natural philosophers who dream that by the deterioration of energy and the dissipation of movement the material world will obtain final rest in the inertia of a homogeneous equilibrium, let us ask the biologists and psychologists who are enemies of fixed species and inquisitive about ancestral history.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference

Offering an elaboration of the idea of overflow at Guide 2.11 (Pines, p. 275), Maimonides describes the cosmogonical activity through which the cosmos ” as seen first in a series of intellects ” is generated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides] Reference

Chaldea in the highly artificial system which has been sketched above -- (see Chapters V. and VI.) -- a system singularly beautiful and deeply significant, but of which the mass of the people did not care to unravel the subtle intricacies, being quite content to accept it entire, in the most literal spirit, elementary nature-gods, astronomical abstractions, cosmogonical fables and all -- questioning nothing, at peace in their mind and righteously self-conscious if they sacrificed at the various time-honored local shrines, and conformed to the prescribed forms and ceremonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference

Im in my cosmogonical mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » The most outrageous comments of 2006.] Reference

The first six names of the genealogy of the Kings of Ayodhyá are partly theogonical and partly cosmogonical; the other names are no doubt in accordance with tradition and deserve the same amount of credence as the ancient traditional genealogies of other nations.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ramayana. English] Reference

163 “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 Wordnik.com.  [Ramayana. English] Reference

The cosmogonical myths, too, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference