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 doctrine of emanation is thus to be distinguished from the cosmogonic theory of Judaism and Christianity, which explains human existence as due to a single creative act of a moral agent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

The Brahmins of India expressed the same cosmogonic idea by a statue, representative of the Universe, uniting in itself both sexes.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert