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

The Hebrews adopted the Babylonian cosmogonic myth,1783 but it became a mere literary attachment to the conception of the supreme god Yahweh, and was otherwise ineffective.

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

Humanism suffers from it no more than any other philosophy suffers, but it makes all our cosmogonic theories so unsatisfactory that some thinkers seek relief in the denial of any primal dualism.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William