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Definition of Cosmogonies
1. cosmogony [n] - See also: cosmogony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmogonies
Literary usage of Cosmogonies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"Nevertheless, it is to cosmogonies that we must look for the clearest definition
... In their general outlines the cosmogonies of the Pueblo dwellers are in ..."
2. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native by Albert Réville, Philip Henry Wicksteed (1884)
"We have often enough been presented with Mexican cosmogonies, ... The sponsors
of these cosmogonies agree neither as to their number nor their order of ..."
3. The Early Traditions of Genesis by Alexander Reid Gordon (1907)
"THE cosmogonies. AMONG all nations, cosmogonic myths occupy a large place. ...
For primitive cosmogonies are never mere " scientific" creations. ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"... cosmogonies, Chronologies, and Original Traditions of Ancient Nations; an A
bstract and Renew of several Modern Systems; with an attempt to explain, ..."
5. German Literature: Translated from the German of Wolfgang Menzel by Wolfgang Menzel (1840)
"The most ancient religious poetry of the cosmogonies and mythi was essentially
architectural in its character; the later Greek and Roman, and the poetry ..."
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